Please remember that a large number of victims of sexual violation today are male. According to at least one source, if a person includes all the prison populations both male and female into statistics, more men than women experience genital/anal violation each year. Men as well as women have been subject to sexual coercion by the opposite sex, via assault, threats of violence, and extortion/blackmail. Males and females both have been sexually violated while vulnerable due to alcohol, drugs, injury, or the state of being too young for informed consent; however, males are far less likely than females to be believed when they protest opposite-sex sexual violation (and shamed as weak when they speak up about same-sex sexual victimhood), including disbelief in the possibility of male victimhood in cases when boys in their early teens have been exploited by women known by their families. Rape has historically been used as a terrorist means to oppress women. However, today, women as well as men have been rapists. Remember: for male victims, we live in a country where the threat of same-sex rape is considered a comedic topic, even in a cartoon such as the _Powerpuff Girls_ in which the comedic tagline of one episode played for laughs the threat of sexual assault in jail. In the popular media, a sexually assaulted women is a victim, but a sexually assaulted man is a punchline. If we are to end sexual violation, we must avoid demonizing one sex, and we must never treat sexual victimization for either sex as a punchline. yours in ending rape, W. Everett Chesnut, Ph.D. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com