Why do some men trivialize rape?

[BainsBane]

Last edited Thu Aug 22, 2013, 02:11 AM - Edit history (2)

This is meant as a continuation of or compliment to this thread.

There are may reasons some men deny and trivialize the prevalence of rape. Among those reasons, I think, is that they see rape as a crime that only affects women. While women make up 90% of rape victims in civil society, rape of men is more widespread in the American prison system. It is in fact an egregious human rights violation that accompanies the highest incarceration rate in the world. Rape need not be seen as a crime exclusively of male perpetrators and female victims. Rape is an act of violence perpetrated against both men and women. Information on prison rape makes clear just how common sexual assault of men is.

In 2010, Human Rights Watch estimated that at least 140,000 inmates had been raped while incarcerated, [1] and there is a significant variation in the rates of prison rape by race. "Past studies have documented the prevalence of black on white sexual aggression in prison," according to Human Rights Watch.[2] "These findings are further confirmed by Human Rights Watch's own research. Overall, our correspondence and interviews with white, black, and Hispanic inmates convince us that white inmates are disproportionately targeted for abuse. Although many whites reported being raped by white inmates, black on white abuse appears to be more common. To a much lesser extent, non-Hispanic whites also reported being victimized by Hispanic inmates."[3]

Just Detention International (formerly known as Stop Prisoner Rape, Inc.) estimate that young men are five times more likely to be attacked, and that the prison rape victims are ten times more likely to contract a deadly disease.

A United States Department of Justice report, Sexual Victimization in Prisons and Jails Reported by Inmates, states that "In 2011-12, an estimated 4.0% of state and federal prison inmates and 3.2% of jail inmates reported experiencing one or more incidents of sexual victimization by another inmate or facility staff in the past 12 months or since admission to the facility, if less than 12 months." [4] However, advocates dispute the accuracy of the numbers, saying they seem to under report the real numbers of sexual assaults in prison, especially among juveniles.[5]

A meta-analysis published in 2004 found a prevalence rate of 1.91% with a 95% confidence interval between 1.37–2.46%.[6]

In a survey of 1,788 male inmates in Midwestern prisons by Prison Journal, about 21% claimed they had been coerced or pressured into sexual activity during their incarceration, and 7% claimed that they had been raped in their current facility.[7]
According to the study conducted by the United States Department of Justice for the year 2006, there were 2,205 allegations of inmate-on-inmate non-consensual sexual acts reported in the U.S. prison system, 262 of which were substantiated.[8]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_rape_in_the_United_States

[ismnotwasm]

1. That certainly may be a factor

And the reason the idea of 'rape culture' offends certain men, because rape is emasculating, in prison it's not so much 'homosexual' rape as it is a substitution for a woman or girl.

Interestingly, rapists are not respected in prison, even though rape culture is institutionalized in prison culture.

It's a mix mash of gender roles and expectations with the bottom line being those who are raped being considered something less than human, of doubtful veracity, weak, manipulative--all the things women who experience trade are accused of.

[Mnemosyne]

2. Because they have raped, imho. nt

[BainsBane]

3. There's that too

I was going for the soft sell though