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Re:Requiem for GitHub by PieterH on Sunday February 07, 2016 @12:18PM (#11053653)
Around one in five of women and one in 20 of men have been forced into sexual intercourse against their will, in their lifetime. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_by_gender.

To deny that sexual assault happens against men is to live half-blind. Sexual assault in all cases is about power and gratification by abusive individuals (spread equally among both sexes) against the vulnerable of either sex (and the gender matters little to them).

Edit: corrected the figures.

Re:Requiem for GitHub by kupaka on Sunday February 07, 2016 @12:34PM (#11053742)
>Around one in 20 of women and men equally, have been forced into sexual intercourse against their will, in their lifetime. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_by_gender.

That stat's not in that article.

Re:Requiem for GitHub by ta140604 on Sunday February 07, 2016 @01:07PM (#11053915)
That stat IS in that article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_by_gender#Rape_of_females

"In a 2000 research article from the Home Office, in England and Wales, around 1 in 20 women (5%) said that they had been raped at some point in their life from the age of 16 beyond.[6]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_by_gender#Rape_of_males

"The same study found that approximately 1 in 21 men had been made to penetrate someone else, usually an intimate partner or acquaintance."

This is completely in line with original claim, "have been forced into sexual intercourse against their will". Wiki page does call this rape when it comes to women, but not when it comes to men.

Re:Requiem for GitHub by kupaka on Sunday February 07, 2016 @01:21PM (#11053979)
I don't think it's intellectually honest to mix and match stats from different studies to fit your worldview. The study that has the 1 in 21 stat for men who have been forced to penetrate also says that 1 in 5 women have been raped.

Source: http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/nisvs_report2010-a...

Re:Requiem for GitHub by PieterH on Sunday February 07, 2016 @02:04PM (#11054218)
I didn't see the full study. Thanks for pointing me to it. Indeed the figures are higher for women than for men. Let me edit my comment to reflect that.