FBI Changes its Definition of Rape

[manualman]

As a prosecutor you have privy and full knowledge of the law that even police officers don’t have full knowledge of. I guess my question relates to something I mentioned in my original post having to do with a male rape victim under examination of the justice courts by an attorney stating he got an erection while being forcibly sodomized. Would the court of law unwittingly take such to mean automatic guilt on the male victim under duress?
That would be like court saying the male victim enjoyed it given the present laws (clarification needed)… state they (do not recognize that men can be raped through penetration, because of course an erection means consent). Such laws **if true **sounds ludicrous and extremely bias.

I’m of zero help on the legal front, but it might help you to realize that many women rape victims have to deal with this as well. Female genital responses may not be as easily visible as male ones, but some women rape survivors absolutely have to deal with feeling like their own bodies betrayed them through involuntary stimulus responses (to put it delicately).

Absolutely no potentially involuntary bodily reaction should be considered evidence for the defense. That’s how I’d vote on a jury.

 

[centurionguard]

As I recall, overcoming the immense shame of rape was something the women’s movement of the 1970s struggled with, and to some extent had success. But guys haven’t caught up.

I believe the majority of society has excepted the sad idea that woman get raped.
Its still no less an unspeakable stigma for women who are victims and causes great guilt and shame too which I think too still keeps the majority of victimized women from going to court after their assailants. The grilling and cross-examination of attorneys can often be too much of a added burden for victims.

The worst part is despicable perpetrators know this themselves.

Most of society in their bias haven’t come to terms accepting the idea that men can be raped or choose to ignore it altogether. But I would say it has increasingly becoming more accepted in the last 20 years in greater populated metropolitan’s. Gender stereotype and how masculine fathers pass on to their sons the the strength of their own qualities of what it means to be a strong man who doesn’t cry or make great cause to complain.

When the unfair heavy burden of shame and guilt from rape goes against mental resolve, sexual identity is loss which is more than most male rape victims can bear which creates anxieties. This is why most male victims refuse to seek help.

It might seem straightforward; but its not easy to convince male victims and traverse the great hurdle and unfair burden of shame and guilt. I know I’ve been three haunting decades at it.

I see men being just as vulnerable as women deep down. I’m sure most wives know the vulnerabilities of their husbands.