This is Lara Stemple, the feminist who helped find a voice for hundreds of thousands of male victims of sexual abuse and rape across America.
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She showed the world that the idea of men not being victims of rape is a myth. Discovering that the data collection methods of sexual violence surveys, used narrow definitions of rape that simply excluded men as victims.
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Things are changing in America – which has started to recognise male, non–binary and trans victims of rape alongside women, but the world has not followed.
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In the UK it is still impossible, literally, for a woman to rape a man and the British Government are refusing to update the Sexual Offences Act to change this.
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We need more Lara Stemples – will it be you?.
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Sources
The Understudied Female Sexual Predator, tinyurl.com/y4xu2e9t
When Men are Raped tinyurl.com/yym7yu6u
Lara Stemple, Bio tinyurl.com/y6e2w4l9
Featured Study tinyurl.com/y8f22cl4
Study 2, tinyurl.com/y3o8hwt7
Study Review tinyurl.com/y62rka5z
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