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Development and validation of the Male Rape Myth Acceptance Scale (MRMAS) [PDF]
Heliyon, 2021 Despite growing recognition of male-on-male rape and its related myths, research in this area has been held back by the lack of a reliable and comprehensive measure or scale.
Benjamin A. Hine +2 more
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Unraveling silence: police perceptions and responses to male victims of rape [PDF]
Frontiers in SociologyIntroductionMale victims of rape face significant barriers when reporting to the South African Police Service (SAPS), where hegemonic masculinity and heteronormative institutional cultures render male victimhood socially unintelligible.
Katlego Vincent Scheepers +2 more
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Male Rape Myths: Understanding and Explaining Social Attitudes Surrounding Male Rape [PDF]
Masculinities and Social Change, 2015 This paper provides a critical review of the literature surrounding male rape, aimed at exploring how male rape myths shape society’s responses and attitudes to male victims of rape and integrates the literature from a theory driven perspective.
Aliraza Javaid
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Male rape: the silent victim and the gender of the listener.
Prim Care Companion J Clin Psychiatry, 2010 To the Editor: Although the long-term effects of sexual abuse of women by men have been studied extensively, there has been minimal research exploring the effects of sexual assault by men on other men. Until recently, very little attention has been paid to male victims of rape and sexual assault in adulthood; even less attention has been paid to male ...
Riccardi P.
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“A rape is a rape is a rape” – A qualitative content analysis of male rape frames in UK print media
Studies in Communication, MediaUsing data of N = 70 articles from newspapers in the United Kingdom, this study explores whether UK print media of both broadsheet and tabloid press make use of issue-specific frames (Entman, 1993) in the reporting on male rape.
Maria F. Grub
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Male Victims of Sexual Assault: A Review of the Literature
Behavioral Sciences, 2023 Compared to female rape victims, the literature addressing male rape victims remains a growing area of interest for counselors and scholars. This article aims to review the growing literature on male sexual assault victims.
John C. Thomas, Jonathan Kopel
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Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, 2023 Against the background of the often female-focused view of sexual abuse victims, this paper addresses the issue of male-identifying victims of sexual violence through the lens of the Bible.
Ellen De Doncker
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Why Men Rape: Perspectives From Incarcerated Rapists in a KwaZulu-Natal Prison, South Africa
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Sexual offending is a global problem but is particularly prevalent on the African continent and in South Africa. Childhood experiences related to abuse, alcohol use, and criminal activities in the household and community has been associated with an ...
Lindokuhle Blessing Ngubane +6 more
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Rape and the prevalence of hybrids in broadly sympatric species: a case study using albatrosses [PDF]
PeerJ, 2014 Conspecific rape often increases male reproductive success. However, the haste and aggression of forced copulations suggests that males may sometimes rape heterospecific females, thus making rape a likely, but undocumented, source of hybrids between ...
Sievert Rohwer +2 more
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What Support? Foucault, Power, and the Construction of Rape
Qualitative Sociology Review, 2019 This paper is concerned with the social and cultural constructions of male rape in voluntary agencies, England. Using sociological, cultural, and post-structural theoretical frameworks, mainly the works of Foucault, I demonstrate the ways in which male ...
Aliraza Javaid
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