Persuasive Essay On Male Rape

Men can’t get raped! Can they? In modern society male rape isn’t taken as seriously as the rape of women because men are emasculated if they received unwanted sex, even if they are gay. Throughout the decades, rape culture has become a controversial subject in today’s society, unfortunately many of the discussions are centered only on women, which have led many to be misinformed about how rape can impact both genders. “The dismissive attitude regarding male rape isn’t only objectionable, it’s also extremely harmful because it leads to the unjustified narrative that men can’t be raped [by women]. They can certainly be victimized, and it’s actually happening with shocking frequency.” (Kasparian) There are endless examples of when the rape of men has been dismissed as unimportant and the possible after effects of the victims have been deemed irrelevant, to instead focus on details that should be considered rather insignificant of a rape. In the past two …show more content…
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.”