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wazoox on Dec 17, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Nerds and Male Privilege

Men are a significant minority of rape victims (5 to 10%). However more than 99% of perpetrators are males.

philwelch on Dec 18, 2011 [–]

And my contention is that rapes against men, and woman-on-man rape in particular, are incredibly underreported and hence your numbers are invalid.

wazoox on Dec 18, 2011 | [–]

How do you know? What allows you to believe that?

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