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First I've heard of this...warning - gruesome
delalluvia:
Didn't know quite where to put this as it's not a current event - perhaps we discussed this before?
http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/newsom.asp
This is the first time I've ever read about a heterosexual man being raped and murdered along with his girlfriend. Makes me wonder if it has happened before to straight men but just not been reported.
RouxB:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on April 01, 2009, 07:52:24 pm ---Didn't know quite where to put this as it's not a current event - perhaps we discussed this before?
http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/newsom.asp
This is the first time I've ever read about a heterosexual man being raped and murdered along with his girlfriend. Makes me wonder if it has happened before to straight men but just not been reported.
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I didn't read the article but, yes, straight men are also raped. They rarely report because the stigma, bad enough for women, is far worse for me. I work for our local rape crisis center and we rarely get calls from men who are willing to report to police.
louisev:
the latest statistics I have heard is the 2 out of 10, i.e. 20% of all rape is against males. And of course, all of those schoolteacher cases have been adult women teachers having sex with young male students - that is also rape. I have seen about 4 of those just this year.
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: enjaRouxB on April 03, 2009, 05:24:41 pm ---I didn't read the article but, yes, straight men are also raped. They rarely report because the stigma, bad enough for women, is far worse for me. I work for our local rape crisis center and we rarely get calls from men who are willing to report to police.
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I was thinking not so much reported as in 'a straight man was raped and he reported it to police' but more like newpapers and media reporting it. Whenever I read or hear about some poor woman getting murdered, the media always adds whether she was sexually assaulted on top of the murder if the info is available to them. You don't hear/read that about men - ever. This was the first time for me. I read a blurb about this in a book I was reading, did a double take and actually Googled the crime to make sure they weren't a lesbian couple or a woman who had a man's name.
RouxB:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on April 03, 2009, 07:04:32 pm ---I was thinking not so much reported as in 'a straight man was raped and he reported it to police' but more like newpapers and media reporting it. Whenever I read or hear about some poor woman getting murdered, the media always adds whether she was sexually assaulted on top of the murder if the info is available to them. You don't hear/read that about men - ever. This was the first time for me. I read a blurb about this in a book I was reading, did a double take and actually Googled the crime to make sure they weren't a lesbian couple or a woman who had a man's name.
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Yeah, they don't report it because it doesn't make it that far. If the man doesn't report to the police, it doesn't make it to the news. I can't remember the last time a read about a male victim rape-though I hear about it all the time through the rape crisis center.
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