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.
“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 victims, 3,850 reported “penetrative” attacks — meaning they were raped.
Extrapolating the study’s estimates of up to 15 times greater than thePentagon’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.
“We know that there is underreporting among men and women, and hope that this special issue will help to bring awareness and treatment for those that serve and protect us,” said the periodical’s co-editor, Michi Fu, a clinical practitioner. “I personally wanted to pull together scholarship after hearing of reports of military sexual trauma being so much more prevalent than in the general population.”
Researchers said that even though the Pentagon-sponsored survey is anonymous, men still are reluctant to disclose that they were raped.
The rapes and other assaults come at a cost to the men and the nation, according to a survey of 2,042 veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, says another study in Psychological Services.
“Male veterans who reported being sexually assaulted while serving their country suffered more severe symptoms of PTSD and depression, had higher rates of suicidal thoughts and were more likely to enroll in outpatient mental health treatment than those who were not assaulted,” the researchers found.
Elaine Donnelly, who runs the Center for Military Readiness, said male-on-male sexual assaults have been increasing since Congress repealed the gay ban in 1993 and replaced it with “don’t ask, don’t tell,” which was erased by President Obama to allow openly gay service members.
“DoD figures have shown that most sexual assaults on men are perpetrated by other men, not women,” she said.
Source: The Washington Times
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We have seen the evil of Socialism and Islam destroy human rights and freedoms and create horror and war all over the world.
Our damn liberal Media. the damn Pope, Hilary Clinton, Barack Obama, George Soros, Saul Alinsky, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and the United Nations lie.
Islam has spread child abuse, abuse of women, destruction of human rights and freedoms, torture, rape, murder, and war since 600 AD.
Not one Incumbent in the United States.
Our Media and our Politicians suck.
Shut down our wars and police actions.
Arrest Barack Obama for Treason and burn his Executive Orders.
Not one Damn Incumbent in the United States.
Al Sharpton, Barack Obama, the Nation of Islam, and the New Black Panthers are responsible for the violence and Terrorism inside the United States.
We should not support or finance Terrorists, even Barack Obama's radical islamic Terrorists in Syria and Iraq.
We should not ship any money or arms to Iran or any nation with Islamic Law.
In each nation of the United Nations with Islamic Law there are no human rights or Freedoms.
The United Nations World Gestapo is no better an idea than Hitler's World Gestapo.
Get the United States out of the United Nations and get the United Nations out of the United States.
The National Socialist German Workers' Party (German abbreviated NSDAP), commonly referred to in English as the Nazi Party.put Adolf Hitler into power.
Democrats and Liberals always try to leave out the Nazis, but when the Nazi's came into being, they were Socialists and Liberals who were working to make Germany a better place, just like the Democrats today are Socialists and Liberals working to make America a better place.
People who praise socialism, like Bernie Saunders, Hilary Clinton, Barack Obama, Saul Alinsky, Bill Ayers, and many of today's liberal Democrats are wrong, there is nothing good about Socialism, Communism, or Islam.
It is so hard to tell whether George Soros or Barack Obama is the most evil person who ever lived on our planet.
Something bad happened in 2008.
Mass killings occurred under some Communist regimes during the twentieth century. Estimates of the death toll vary widely, depending on the methodology used. Scholarship focuses on the causes of mass killings in single societies, though some claims of common causes for mass killings have been made. Some higher estimates of mass killings include not only mass murders or executions that took place during the elimination of political opponents, civil wars, terror campaigns, and land reforms, but also lives lost due to war, famine, disease, and exhaustion in labor camps. There are scholars who believe that government policies and mistakes in management contributed to these calamities, and, based on that conclusion combine all these deaths under the categories "mass killings", democide, politicide, "classicide", or loosely defined genocide. According to these scholars, the total death toll of the mass killings defined in this way amounts to many tens of millions; however, the validity of this approach is questioned by other scholars. In his summary of the estimates in the Black Book of Communism, Martin Malia suggested a death toll of between 85 and 100 million people.
You give one man total control and you create a monster, if the man you chose is not a monster already.
Adolf Hiter started by taking control of the Communist/Socialist People's Party in Germany.
Usually millions or hundreds of millions of people have to die to turn a country over to Socialism.
Then you end up having no human rights or freedoms just like in a country with Islamic Law.
Not one Damn Incumbent in the United States. George Soros, Eric Holder, Hilary Clinton, Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan, and Barack Obama are not in prison where they belong.
Saul Alinsky, Bill Ayers, Bill and Hilary Clinton, George Soros and Moveoon.organd Black Lives Matter, Eric Holder, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Valerie Jarrett, the New Black Panthers, The Nation of Islam, CAIR, the Hamas, Liberals, Communists, and the Muslim Brotherhood twisted the Democrat Party into the monster it is today.
The name change, the lies, our media coverage, and the horrible amount of money pumped into Hilarycare did not fix it. Socalism is just evil and wrong.
We do not need the United Nations World Gestapo or Barack Obama's National Police Force in the United States.
Look at the history of the Roman Catholic Church or the damn Barbary Pirates and the Ottomans, look at the Killing Fields, look at the U.S.S.R, Cuba, and China, socialism always ends with millions dead and war.
History tells us Bernie and the other liars are wrong about socialism, it always turns out bad.
We saw the millions people die in Cuba, China, the U.S.S.R, all over the Middle East, Asia, North Africa, South America. and every where Socialism or Islam creates it's evil.
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