- “When you have an extreme power differential and absolute unchecked power, bad things start happening,” Stannow said. “When you combine this with a culture where sex abuse by females on males isn’t taken seriously, then you have the perfect set-up for women with all this power to get away with it.”
- “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
- Oscar Wilde
Hmm. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, given some of the reasons listed in theadvancedapes' recent post, "Why Have Sex?"
I'll admit that I'm one of the unenlightened many who have a hard time wrapping his brain around a teenage boy getting raped by a woman. I trust the numbers and the evidence, so I'm not trying to dispute anything. It's simply that my mind rejects the idea. Social conditioning, I'm sure. Is there evidence that shows that rape of young men by women does the same sort of psychological damage that the rape of young women by men has?
I don't know. The boys in the article are in a different situation than the "traditional" configuration as they are already in custody, rather than abducted or waylaid. What I got from the article was that this kind of abuse seems to distort ideas of what appropriate and/or healthy sexual relations are for these boys and that this may be a foundation for future behavioral issues. It definitely challenges the image of rape that comes to mind upon encountering the word "rape" but it is clearly abuse.