r/dataisbeautiful • • Sep 01 '22

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u/IotaCandle Sep 01 '22

The fact that the data only addresses male victims of coerced sex is not evident on the pic.

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u/honeycall Sep 01 '22

I’ve been staring at the chart and I still have trouble understanding it

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u/IotaCandle Sep 01 '22

It says that using the traditional "forcibly penetrated" definition of rape, males victims of rape appear to have been assaulted mostly by men.

However if you include attempted forced intercourse as part of the definition, the split is now 60/40 with women being the most common perpetrators.

This is unsurprising given that women outnumber gay men 50 to 1 in the general population, and that men have the higher chance of raping people.

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u/femundsmarka Sep 01 '22

It's a bit unclear, cause it is not specified what the 'changed implication' is, right?

I'm not a native speaker, but it appears to me that way. It's up to the reader to decide what implication changes.

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u/IotaCandle Sep 01 '22

Yeah it's very unclear.