Rape: the forgotten victim.

Explaining Negative Rape Victim Perception: Homophobia and the Male Rape Victim

Previous research into rape victim blaming has often neglected to assess attitudes toward male victims. The present study was designed to redress this imbalance and specifically, investigate the role of homophobic attitudes in male rape victim perception. Men and women read a vignette describing an incident of rape and answered two questionnaires that assessed firstly, homophobic attitudes towa...

Male Rape and the Careful Construction of the Male Victim

Sexual assault generates much attention in social research, but male victims are largely neglected by a predominantly feminist perspective that seeks to highlight the gendered nature of sexual assault as a social phenomenon. As a result there is a relative lack of empirical information on male rape; but it is possible to chart the theoretical development of male rape as a social problem as it e...

Popular Descriptions of the Rape Victim in the Press

Stop blaming the victim: a meta-analysis on rape myths.

Although male rape is being reported more often than before, the majority of rape victims continue to be women. Rape myths-false beliefs used mainly to shift the blame of rape from perpetrators to victims-are also prevalent in today's society and in many ways contribute toward the pervasiveness of rape. Despite this, there has been limited consideration as to how rape prevention programs and po...

Victim-Oriented Multidisciplinary Responses to Statutory Rape Training