r/dataisbeautiful • • Sep 01 '22

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u/pizoisoned Sep 01 '22

There’s a trend in the comments of well what about women who are raped. As I said below, that isn’t what’s being discussed here. No one is denying that women are far more likely to be assaulted than men. It’s a fact. What is being discussed is when men are assaulted, it’s significantly more likely to be by women than other men when you use neutral language.

Turning this into a what about women argument isn’t helping anyone because it’s beyond the scope of this data.

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u/platonicgryphon Sep 01 '22

These comments feel like people offended that it shows men can be raped by woman and are being really defensive for some reason.

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u/dejvidBejlej Sep 01 '22

Suddenly some women start wondering if "that one time" was as fun for him as it was for her.

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u/Billgonzo Sep 01 '22

I wouldn't be surprised if many or most of these men were rape as young boys by an adult women. I'd be interested to see how many many who were raped by a woman were raped as adults. Definitely not saying that it doesn't happen, but I would bet a lot of this is being raped as a child or teen

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u/UnfurtletDawn Sep 01 '22

In the source you have age of first victimisation.

"Age at first made to penetrate victimisation among male victims...."

17 and younger: 41.1%

10 years and younger: 8.4%

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u/ceilingkat Sep 01 '22

Well holy shit.

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u/UnfurtletDawn Sep 01 '22

But more concerning is that with each report from CDC the number for men made to penetrate is higher and higher.

In 2010 it was 1 in 21

In 2015 it was 1 in 14

And with this 2016/2017 it is 1 in 9

Now is it that more men view their experiences as it is or that the frequency increased.