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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
Although male rape is an under reported problem, I leave my door unlocked every night in hopes of gathering evidence, so is false claims of rape. But the intention of Dana's thread, as I understand it, is more the institutional rather than physical.
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The problem is that it is not that "female on male rape" it is an under reported crime, it's that it's not a crime to report. At least in the US, If you say "I was raped by a woman" , since rape legally requires the actual penetration of a penis, there's no such thing unless she at some point in her life had a penis. The closest report you can make is for sexual assault.
The issue in question isn't merely a cultural one of an unreported crime, it's an institutional one of what doesn't legally count as a crime.
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Originally Posted by DanaC
Bruce is right about the institutional focus. But culturally, the issue of male rape by a female perpetrator and how we as a society define and respond to that, is part of that bigger picture.
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Bingo - what I was going for
