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2) Lowe, Michelle. Male Sexual Assault Victims: A Selective Review of the Literature and Implications for Support Services. ResearchGate. N.p., 9 July 2015. Web. 10 Oct. 2016.
3) This reading attempts to shed some light on the sexual assault of males. The author discusses the fact that sexual assault on males does not receive much attention by either researchers or by the public, and gathers some research on both the prevalence of sexual assault on males and the effects the assault has on the victim, as well as the different factors that have an effect on the reactions of the public towards male victims. The reading considers perpetrators of both genders and victims of different sexualities and gender identifications (transgender victims). The author also writes about what all of these different factors mean as far as support services for male victims, and how we can use this information to improve support services.
4) Michelle Lowe (BSc (Hons), BA, PhD, C.Psychol, FHEA) works at the University of Bolton in England, where she is currently a lecturer in Criminological and Forensic Psychology at the School of Psychology.
5) Male Sexual Assault Victims: Male victims of sexual assault perpetrated by either females or males, strangers or acquaintances.
Prevalence (of sexual assault): How often it occurs. In males, it is very difficult to calculate, as they are rarely reported.
6) "Struckman-Johnson (1988), for example, found that 16% of the males in an undergraduate sample (compared with 22% of the females in this study) had been pressured or forced to have sex at some point in their adult lives. Most victims were coerced by the use of psychological tactics, though in about a quarter of these cases, physical force was also used. Surprisingly, most of these assaults were carried out by female perpetrators. In a large proportion of these cases, the assault occurred in a dating situation. British data revealed similar figures. Approximately 14% of males (compared with about 24% of females) in a student sample had experienced forced sexual contact or intercourse at least once in their lives (Davies, Pollard & Archer, 2000a)." (206)
"As socialization encourages men to seek and respond to any opportunity to engage in sexual activity with women, sexual coercion by women may be conceptualized as sexual experience (even if that experience is negative) rather than a violation of will." (206)
"They found specifically that victims were blamed more when they were assaulted by a perpetrator who was portrayed as a member of the gender that they were normally attracted to: heterosexual victims were blamed more when the perpetrator was female than when male, while gay victims were blamed more when the perpetrator was male than when female." (210)
7) This material gathers information many different studies in order to explore the realities of sexual assault on males. Statistics are provided by many sources which will also be helpful to me. This article explores male sexual assault in a broad way, so it is also helping me to narrow my focus.
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