“You can’t really address the problem of military sexual trauma until you include the 56 percent of the victims — the men”
“From interviewing hundreds of rape and sexual assault survivors, both male and female, there’s a persistent pattern by the military in essentially even refusing to accept the allegation, where the chain of command basically says, ‘We are not going to even report this.’ And that is much more prevalent with the male victims,” Burke said. “What I’ve seen time and time again: a male who comes forward to report rape and sexual assault is accused of being a homosexual.”
But according to Dr. Loree Sutton, a psychiatrist and retired Army brigadier general, rapes are not about sex but are instead fueled by aggression and domination. The crime is almost an animalistic demonstration that the predator “owns” the prey. Many male-on-male rapes in the military are group attacks. Some involve drugging the victims.
“It’s not about gay sex. Typically the predators are heterosexual men who have this need to assert power, control and dominance,” Sutton said. “It’s similar to the dynamics of what happens with incest — those family bonds, the trust, the loyalty. I mean, in the military, loyalty becomes this huge factor and that is so difficult for men and women to sort out.”
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Call me skeptical…
Blake on February 8, 2013 at 8:33 PM
..commit forcible “gay” sex.
If it looks like a duck…
itsnotaboutme on February 8, 2013 at 8:43 PM
Because that might go against their narrative that “gays” had been in the military problem free before the repeal of DADT..
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It is funny that if it is a male/male rape then it is always hetero domination, but when we see the same behavior in the animal kingdom- that is some proof that gay is “natural” and that there is gay animals.
melle1228 on February 8, 2013 at 8:48 PM
It’s so important for them to glorify homosexual sex that they want to blame heterosexuals for all the homosexual sex that isn’t “nice”. Apparently there is “real” same-sex sex and then there is “impostor” same-sex sex that is really opposite-sex sex but with no one of the opposite sex involved. So says the expert.
Buddahpundit on February 8, 2013 at 8:49 PM
Not suprising, they do the same thing when a child is molested by the same sex.
melle1228 on February 8, 2013 at 8:52 PM
Because gay men never rape straight men.
steebo77 on February 8, 2013 at 8:53 PM
Good point.
Many men are just plain perverts. If they can’t get a chick, they’ll nail a guy.
WAIT, no one chooses any kind of homosexual feeling, so throw out the evidence. /sarc
itsnotaboutme on February 8, 2013 at 8:54 PM
Yup, & nearly half of all child molestation is homosexual.
So 3% of the population commits nearly half of the molestation.
But we must celebrate diversity!
itsnotaboutme on February 8, 2013 at 8:57 PM
http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/297156/Surprise/
lorien1973 on February 8, 2013 at 9:15 PM
Riiiiiight.
John the Libertarian on February 8, 2013 at 9:15 PM
Indeed, these comments stood out to me too but it looks like I wasn’t the only one thinking this is just so much bull. Don’t you just love how the homosexual movement and their enablers have made it so homosexuals can never be guilty of sexual assault, that their sexuality is either denied (as in adult same gender rape: ‘it’s not gay, it’s hetero aggression’) or deflected onto a generic group (as in child rape: ‘they’re not gay, they’re pedophiles’).
The Thin Man Returns on February 8, 2013 at 9:23 PM
Exactly!
melle1228 on February 8, 2013 at 9:24 PM
I’ve been hearing this my whole life since I was a kid, and now at 32 I am ready to call it a load of crap. There are people out there who pay to be dominated, women and men who want to choked and simulate rape and others who want to do the choking and raping yet we call these sexual fetishes as they are clearly about the sex.
Rape is a sex act, some scientists even say men have it in their nature, if you get off on it then it absolutely is about sex. It is a sex act no matter what drives it.
Daemonocracy on February 8, 2013 at 9:54 PM
I’ve ehard this before, but do you have a source? Are there Federal crime statistics on this because it’s something I’d like to look into myself.
Daemonocracy on February 8, 2013 at 10:02 PM
I believe that the latest dept. of justic stats had male victims of molestation at 36%. And the majority of pedophiles are males. Hence 3% of the population contributes to a lot of molesters.
And than there is this from the National library of medicince
J Sex Marital Ther. 1992 Spring;18(1):34-43.
The proportions of heterosexual and homosexual pedophiles among sex offenders against children: an exploratory study.
Freund K, Watson RJ.
Source
Department of Behavioural Sexology, Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, Toronto, Ont., Canada.
Abstract
Previous investigations have indicated that the ratio of sex offenders against female children vs. offenders against male children is approximately 2:1, while the ratio of gynephiles to androphiles among the general population is approximately 20:1. The present study investigated whether the etiology of preferred partner sex among pedophiles is related to the etiology of preferred partner sex among males preferring adult partners. Using phallometric test sensitivities to calculate the proportion of true pedophiles among various groups of sex offenders against children, and taking into consideration previously reported mean numbers of victims per offender group, the ratio of heterosexual to homosexual pedophiles was calculated to be approximately 11:1. This suggests that the resulting proportion of true pedophiles among persons with a homosexual erotic development is greater than that in persons who develop heterosexually. This, of course, would not indicate that androphilic males have a greater propensity to offend against children.
melle1228 on February 8, 2013 at 10:48 PM
Fetishes are consensual or auto-erotic.
Some people get off on torturing animals. I don’t regard that as sex, but it is closer to rape than a fetish.
Gelsomina on February 8, 2013 at 11:07 PM