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More men are raped as well, both as children and as adults if you count prisons, which as a society we generally don't and that in and of itself is informative.


Citation needed.


> More men are raped as well

More? OMG that is about as self-serving a piece of false information as I've ever come across here on HN.


"In 2008, it was estimated 216,000[2] inmates were sexually assaulted while serving time, according to the Department of Justice figures.

That is compared to 90,479[3] rape cases outside of prison."[1]

Men are 92% of the prison population[4]

[1]https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2449454/More-men-ra...

[2]https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=tp&tid=317

[3]https://www.statista.com/statistics/191137/reported-forcible...

[4]https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_gende...


Do you have a source that gives the number of men raped in prison? You can't just assume an even distribution.


How so? Is it false? I know I've heard similar things before - more men raped each year, counting prison, than women in the US - and considering the state of our prisons it feels reasonable.




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