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b_b  ·  3948 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Boys in Custody and the Women Who Abuse Them

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?





humanodon  ·  3948 days ago  ·  link  ·  

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.