National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey results released

[mastadge]

On December 14, 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) 2010 Summary Report. The findings show that, on average,

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[recorded]

This was sort of posted here. I appreciate this post though because the cdc.gov source gives me the warm & fuzzies inside.

[lonely_hour]

nearly 1/5 women raped in comparison to 1/75 men.
And when i talk about females getting raped, i am scolded for forgetting about the guys. Not forgetting about men, it's just that something else entirely is going on with women.

[anolinde]

Ugh, I am so fucking sick of hearing "but what about when women rape men?!" every time I talk about women getting raped.

[maynardsong]

Yeah, never mind that for most male rape victims, the PERPETRATOR WAS ALSO MALE.

[tsururu]

God, I get this a lot too. It's not even when I'm talking specifically about rape, I get guys complaining when I say that women have more to worry about when out in public by themselves, or have reason to be more wary of male than female strangers.

[tiddlywinks103]

And I hear that up to 70% of rapes go unreported, anyway. I want to scream.

[maenads_dance]

Yeah, I saw this in brief and heard it on NPR today. Not surprised, maybe now people will stop bleating about the rape stats being inflated.

Although when NPR reported it they reported 1 in 7 men being rape survivors - were they conflating the rape stat with the intimate partner stat, or what? Because frankly 1 in 71 looks awfully low to me for violence against men. Maybe my personal sample size is skewed, but.

[mastadge]

I think that number's an artifact of reporters getting stuck with specific definitions, because elsewhere in the report it says about 1 in 21 men report that they were made to penetrate someone else in their lifetime. So I think it's 1 in 71 who were raped in the sense of being physically penetrated, but 1 in 21 who were raped in the sense of being coerced to penetrate someone else (that someone else being, in 90% of cases, either an acquaintance or an intimate partner).

Far as I'm concerned all of the above are rape, but I don't know how the CDC qualifies particular acts.

[mastadge]

As for age, it says that about 28% of male victims of "completed rape" experienced it first when they were 10 years old or younger; whereas about 80% of female victims experienced their first rape before they were 25, of which just over half were 18 or younger. I'll take a look and see if I see numbers for preadolescent girls.

[windy_lea]

1/5 would be bad enough, but I genuinely believe it's quite a bit higher than that. But, hell, I've seen men dismiss the 1 in 5 stat as inflated, and I have to wonder how many even realize that several of the women in their lives have been violated.

The physical violence stats also don't surprise me although they do, of course, sadden me.