Male Rape - An Invisible Problem

[Hovik]

Why's that, exactly? Because they're women?

Rape committed against men isn't even recognized often times, and it's every bit as damaging and traumatic.

Because men are more violent and do commit more rapes, the majority of which are against women. If I recall correctly, as many as one woman in five will be sexually assaulted during her lifetime-and that is without the unreported cases. I'm against any violent crime, but women get the harsher end of this particular crime.

Actually, very recent statistics demonstrate that the majority of all rapes in the United States are male-on-male prison rapes.

That aside, it doesn't matter who gets raped more often or who is most likely to rape. The fact of the matter is, rape against men does occur, and nobody recognizes that it happens. Arguing that rape against women is a bigger issue and therefore male rape isn't as important is just fundamentally irrational.