Male sexual assault

Articles, Information and Education

In alphabetical order by title.

• Crime of rape knows no gender lines, Jennifer Hong, Columbia Missourian, June 11, 1995.
• For the Man Who is Sexually Assaulted from the Orange County Rape Crisis Center (North Carolina).
• For Men Only: For Male Survivors of Sexual Assault, Counseling & Mental Health Center, University of Texas at Austin.
• Male Rape from the National Victim Center cites a few statistics, provides a good and sensitive overview of the subject and includes references and a bibliography, but no links to other resources on the Web.
• Male Rape - The hidden trauma is a review by LIAM O COILEAIN of a television program of the same name that was aired in Ireland on February 29, 1996. It mentions the Dublin Rape Crisis Center listed above under hotlines.
• Male Rape Victims Subject to Ridicule by Jeremy Seabrook for the (British?) New Statesman & Society (April 27, 1990)
• "Male Sexual Assault" is a public education brochure available from the New York City Gay & Lesbian Anti-Violence Project (AVP) (1999.09.23: Found new URL, restored link)
• Male sexual assault not uncommon, Reuters Health, March 26, 1999. According to a report published in the British Medical Journal 1999;318:846-850, 2,500 British men were surveyed. 3% reported they had been sexually assaulted as an adult, and nearly half of them were assaulted by women.
• Male Survivors of Sexual Assaults from RPEP, the Rape Prevention Education Program of the University of California at Davis, maintained by Alexander Orland.
• Memories of Rape is a chilling and courageous first-person account of ongoing rape, assault and abuse in prison by David Pittman, hosted by Stop Prisoner Rape.
• Men don't get raped!, Ernest Woollett, Survivors, PO Box 2470, London W2 INN
• Men Raped: Supporting the Male Survivor of Sexual Assault on the College Campus, Lester J. Manzano, no date available.
• Men and sexual assault, Linda Oakleaf
• More male veterans reporting that they were sexually assaulted, Philadelphia Inquirer, September 27, 1997 (1998.10.02: no Web link available)
• Myths and Facts About Sexual Violence from the National Coalition Against Sexual Assault (NCASA) includes a section headed "MYTHS AND FACTS ABOUT MALE RAPE."
• No Safe Place: A male survivor of sexual abuse confronts his past in a Monterey California support group, Mary Barker, Herald Staff Writer, March 21, 1997, Monterey, CA
• Rape of Males by the late Stephen Donaldson of Stop Prisoner Rape, from Encyclopedia of Homosexuality, Wayne R. Dynes, ed., 1990, NY: Garland Publications.
  Alternate: Rape of Males, mirrored by Ellen Spertus.
• Rape's Unnoticed Victim by Susan Wachob (1999.09.11: Updated URL)
• Sexual abuse of men and boys by Dez Wildwood, who identifies as a man who has been sexually assaulted in this article written for XY magazine in Australia
• Sexual Assault, Chapter 14 in the US Department of Justice's online National Victim Assistance Academy, is a general resource that is largely gender-neutral, addresses issues and needs of male survivors ("victims") as well as female, and examines changing role of gender in defining rape and sexual assault.
• Silent Victims: Bringing Male Rape Victims Out of the Closet by Sue Rochman, originally published in The Advocate, Issue 582, July 30, 1991, p40.
• Special Populations, a section from the American Medical Association's large page Strategies for the Treatment and Prevention of Sexual Assault
  (2000.09.08: This report is no longer available from the AMA's Web site. There is a press release on their Web site, AMA Reports "Silent Violent Epidemic" of Sexual Assault Throughout the U.S. which provide the same, broken link.)
• Survivors are ashamed by the taboo, the Rape Network
• To a Man Who Has Been Sexually Assaulted from Coordinated Community Response for Sexual Assault of Dane County, Wisconsin, attributed to "a man who had been sexually assaulted and counselled at St. Vincent's Rape Crisis Program" [New York City, listed under Hotlines]. If anyone can find the original attribution please let me know.
• When the survivor is male by Linda Oakleaf, Rape Victim Advocates, Illinois

Revision history:
2000.10.23: Added Rape Network
2000.09.11: Corrected links for Rape Victim Advocates
2000.04.07: Added three new articles: "For Men Only,"  "Male Sexual Assault Not Uncommon," and "Men Raped."
1999.09.23: Found new URL for AVP's Male Sexual Assault brochure and restored the link.
1999.09.11: Updated URL for Susan Wachob's "Rape's Unnoticed Victim."
1999.08.25: Removed link to AVP's Male Sexual Assault brochure.

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