Male Rape - An Invisible Problem

[Hovik]

So comparing the amount of pollution one car puts out to the amount a factory puts out is pointless? I have agreed that your topic has merit. If this were a thread merely titled "Rape," perhaps such an issue as frequency of occurrence would be pointless, because both sexes would be represented. Since women (outside of prison-got it) are more frequently raped, if I had resources to stop one sex being raped, it would go that way. There seems to be an emotional connection with the issue here, and that makes sense to me. In my day to day life, I have met many women who have been raped. If you or some other man you know and care for has been raped, perhaps that prompted this thread. That is very fine, and I can understand that. Otherwise, unless you were doing an academic paper and looking for a topic more esoteric than the usual (female rape, domestic violence, abortion, legalization of drugs), I simply wondered what brought the topic to the fore of your attention.

Look, you're missing the entire point. I think you're mistaking my intent as being geared towards stopping rape against men while women aren't important, but that's not the case. I'm discussing the fact that rape against men isn't recognized by society at large while rape against females is, and that both issues are important. People do not believe that men are raped or even can be raped, and that's a serious detriment to people's lives.