Those conclusions are grounded in striking numbers. Taken as a whole, the reports we examine document surprisingly significant prevalence of female-perpetrated sexual victimization, mostly against men and occasionally against women.” “We therefore believe that this article provides more definitive estimates about the prevalence of female sexual perpetration than has been provided in the literature to date. “These surveys have reached many tens of thousands of people, and each has shown internally consistent results over time,” the authors note. Once again, federal survey data challenged conventional wisdom. Today, the fruits of that research were published in another peer-reviewed paper, “ Sexual Victimization Perpetrated by Women: Federal Data Reveal Surprising Prevalence.” Co-authored with Andrew Flores and Ilan Meyer, it appears in Aggression and Violent Behavior. But the same conversation needs to happen for men.” As she sees it, feminism has fought long and hard to fight rape myths-that if a woman gets raped it’s somehow her fault, that she welcomed it in some way. “Stemple is a longtime feminist who fully understands that men have historically used sexual violence to subjugate women and that in most countries they still do. “For some kinds of victimization, men and women have roughly equal experiences,” Rosin wrote. In “ When Men Are Raped,” the journalist Hanna Rosin summarized the peer-reviewed results that Stemple published with her co-author Ilan Meyer in the American Journal of Public Health. Taken together, the new data challenged widely held beliefs. Meanwhile, other data-gatherers had started to track a new category of sexual violence that the Centers for Disease Control call “being forced to penetrate.” And still others were keeping better track of sexual violence in prisons.
For years, the FBI definition of rape was gendered, requiring “carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will.” But a recent redefinition focused instead on forced penetration with no mention of gender. Intrigued, she began to investigate: Was sexual violence against men more common than previously thought? Two years ago, Lara Stemple, the director of UCLA’s Health and Human Rights Law Project, came upon a statistic that surprised her: In incidents of sexual violence reported to the National Crime Victimization Survey, 38 percent of victims were men––a figure much higher than in prior surveys.
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