Argumentative Essay On Male Rape

When american culture thinks of rape, women are immediately the victims that come to one's mind. We’ve painted a picture that says, women are initially the one gender that can be raped, and if we were to think a man could get raped by a women. It would be absolutely ridiculous to think a women could overpower a man. We have adapted to live in a civilization that romantics about masculinity. Unfortunately in the process we’ve turned a blind eye to smallest anticipation that a man can be raped by a women as well. Male rape should not be funny joke to laugh about, it should be a comfortable subject we can speak about without falling to a misleading hole of myths and in order to do this we must first diminish these mere myths.
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The man was 14 at the time, and struggled to get help until his second year at his university (Fionn Hargreaves 2017) Female-on-male rape is considered so absurd that the only time we really see it, is when it's being portrayed as a carousel of slapstick wackiness in mainstream comedies (Amanda Mannen 2015). It as if society believes men cannot be raped, as if when you tell them they they you’re telling them that someone got bit by a leprechaun. They can’t fathom such a thing could happen, it's the idea that sex is something men do to women. Men give sex, they do not receive it, so if sex occured it must mean that it was a man who made it happen. It's easy to see why people think of female-on-male rape as thoroughly bizarre. Historically the data has show that men don’t get raped. As recently as 2003, men accounted for only 10 percent of sexual assault victims and it's so widely assumed that all of the attackers were other men. Most people who commit rape are thought of being male and the females are thought of being the victims. But more than 1,000 men report being raped to the police every year and the police and government say this is less likely to be less than 10% of the real