household and revealed that thirty-eight percent of rapes and sexual violence committed were against men […] UCLA researcher Lara Stemple confirmed the data in her own study [and concluded] that we need to ‘completely rethink our assumptions about sexual victimization,’ and especially the notion that men are always the perpetrators and women the victims.” (Kasparian) We should also rethink sexual violence against men and viewing only women being the abusers. Many articles have been published in the attempt to bring a new awareness to rape and sexual assault against gay and transgender men. According to the Center for Disease prevention and Control (CDC), more than fifty-seven percent of [male] rape incidents go unreported. In another study, nine hundred and thirty homosexual men were questioned and “of these men, twenty-eight percent said that they had been sexually assaulted or had sex against their will at some point in their lives.”
household and revealed that thirty-eight percent of rapes and sexual violence committed were against men […] UCLA researcher Lara Stemple confirmed the data in her own study [and concluded] that we need to ‘completely rethink our assumptions about sexual victimization,’ and especially the notion that men are always the perpetrators and women the victims.” (Kasparian) We should also rethink sexual violence against men and viewing only women being the abusers. Many articles have been published in the attempt to bring a new awareness to rape and sexual assault against gay and transgender men. According to the Center for Disease prevention and Control (CDC), more than fifty-seven percent of [male] rape incidents go unreported. In another study, nine hundred and thirty homosexual men were questioned and “of these men, twenty-eight percent said that they had been sexually assaulted or had sex against their will at some point in their lives.”