Obama’s New Gay-Friendly Military Experiencing Penetrative Male Rape Epidemic
Far more military men are being raped by other men and experience other sexual traumas than is reported by the Pentagon because of the stigma attached to such assaults, says a new study released Tuesday by the American Psychological Association.
A mere four years after Barack Obama ended the military's Don't Ask Don't Tell policy on open homosexuality in the US Military, incidences of penetrative male rape and other male-to-male sexual assault have skyrocketed. This is why open homosexuality should not be allowed in the military. Every dad across America should dwell and ponder on this before allowing their son to join any branch of the armed forces.
“Rates of military sexual trauma among men who served in the military may be as much as 15 times higher than has been previously reported,
largely because of barriers associated with stigma, beliefs in myths
about male rape, and feelings of helplessness,” the APA said in
releasing findings published in its periodical Psychological Services.
If the survey of male combat veterans is accurate, it could mean the U.S. armed forces are dealing with an epidemic of male-on-male sex crimes.
Comparing the new study’s numbers and the Pentagon’s survey results produced some shocking statistics.
The
Rand Corp., which conducted the most recent Pentagon sexual assault
survey in 2014, found that about 12,000 men reported being assaulted.
Sexual assault in the military is defined as unwanted sexual contact,
including rape and other assaults or the attempt to commit those acts.
Of the 12,000 male Army victims, 3,850 reported “penetrative” attacks — meaning they were raped.
Extrapolating the study’s estimates of up to 15 times greater than the Pentagon’s count, it would mean that as many as 180,000 men are assaulted in one year and, of those, 57,750 are “penetrative” attacks.
The scholarly survey refers to “male sexual trauma,” which translated to this survey question response: “I was sexually assaulted while serving in the military.”
“That
was the question. It was quite literally it,” Sean Sheppard, a
psychologist and research fellow at the University of Utah who led the
study, told The Washington Times.
Mr.
Sheppard said researchers used a random response technique that allowed
them to extract more accurate data from a sample of 180 male combat
veterans. From that technique, they derived the 15-times rate compared
with anonymous surveys such as the Pentagon‘s.
He
said the military should “consider the fact that stigma and other
biases potentially leads to underreporting and to utilize techniques
like the randomized response technique to try to determine more accurate
base rates. It would be a tool in addition to what the Pentagon is
doing.”
Does the survey mean that the 3,850 male military rape victims count is actually nearly 60,000?
“In
the research that we conducted, broadly speaking, the rates of sexual
assault are significantly higher,” Mr. Sheppard said. “I couldn’t tell
you whether that is due to rape or not, but you can make that
hypothesis.”
The
study said: “Data from this study, although preliminary, suggest that
published rates of male MST [military sexual trauma] may substantially
underestimate the true rate of the problem. Current work is underway to
replicate these findings and expand the scope of this research by
assessing a broader range of behaviors that comprise sexual assault.”
The Defense Department issues a biannual report on sexual assaults. Based
on Internet emailed surveys, Rand found that more men than women, in
pure numbers, are sexual assault victims. Women make up about 14.5
percent of the 1.3 million active-duty force. source
Geoffrey Grider | November 6, 2015 at 10:20 am | URL: http://wp.me/p1kFP6-9Do
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