Can men be raped by women?
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Physically it is certainly possible.  Rape is forced and/or unwilling sexual activity, so a woman could certainly force a man to unwillingly have sex (see News articles below).\n\nI'm certain from a legal standpoint it is also possible, but different jurisdictions likely define rape differently.  I would be surprised if the definition of rape changes based on gender, however.
846733
Not in the slightest...\n\nFor example, the government has failed to pass legislation they were working on last year to remove the 'proof of rape' requirements. If you are unaware of what I am referring to: the current law is that a woman must produce 3 MALE witnesses in order to prove she was raped.\n\nInsane and absolutely ludicrous.
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Some very good answers already given. I will add this: at least 10% of those seeking help at Rape-Crises Centers are men who have been raped. Mostly they have been raped by other "straight" men. Rape is an act of violence and violation. It is not a sex act although sexual organs may be involved. Many more rapes are committed than are ever reported. \n\nIf the man is not a willing partner and the act is forced upon him, whatever that act involves, that is a form of rape. If a man cannot give consent (drugged, unconscience, mentally impaired or mentally incompetent), most juries would consider that act rape.\n\n"Sued" is rightly questioned by other answerers. Of course one can sue for damages and doctor's costs. Rape is a felony and really belongs in criminal court. A rapist belongs in jail.  Is that rapist still responsible for helping pay back the survivor? Of course, and that is the civil suit.\n\nGood and difficult topic. Thanks for the question.
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As a rape survivor, I can say that I believe that women are mistreated by some men, but some men are also mistreated.  For every bad man or woman in this world, there are way more good ones.  I can attest to that fact.  Yes, we women are at a disadvantage in some points, but I would still choose to be a woman, even living through what I have lived through....Good question....:)
787520
Sure...it happens all the time.  \nFor example, golfers...there are many woman golfers that could beat all kinds of men.
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I am a woman and i honestly think its not fair. Even if the woman has custody of the child because women use this advantage for their own.\n\nBUT in other parts of the world you have no clue what women go through on a day to day basis. I am from India and in India there is nothing the law can do if a man rapes his wife. They can get a physical separation ( translated to retraining order) but a man will NOT be arrested if he rapes his wife. I read it in the newspaper today and my heart broke. As a woman my heart reaches out to all the women who suffer on a daily basis at the hands of their husbands/ boyfriends.\n\nThere is so much of unfairness in this world!!!
283798
if the woman is undecided then that means NO, verbally or not it means NO and while she may not say anything at the time if she has sex while she is undecided and he forces her to do that...then it can be considered rape
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I can't speak for women.  I do not believe it has anything to do with male homosexuality however.  \n\nAnectodally, I knew I was gay by the time I was 8 -- even though I didn't know the name for it.  I'd had a boyfriend and been having sex for two years when I was forcibly raped by an adult straight male (and the father of three please note)  in my mid teens.  If I hadn't been precocious and had had a guilt complex, I would have had an experience I could "blame" my homosexuality on.  The reality is, I am gay, I was gay -- the rape was incidental -- and because I was precocious and had a b/f and we were having sex, there was never a question of that.  \n\nFactually speaking research indicates that one out of four  females  is sexually abused prior to reaching AoC  in some way by an adult and usually by a family member.  Research is less frequently done on males, and I frankly think when you look at males you can only look at forcible rape, I think males can consent much earlier than they are permitted to legally -- I sure could and so could every one of my friends - gay or straight; but, using the statistic on women -- are one out of four women gay or bi?  Doesn't appear to be correllating there. \n\nThere is a propoganda machine on the Religious Right that tries to blame homosexuality on a number of things:  abuse, drugs, and broken homes being foremost. (See Wayne Besen; Anything But Straight; Harrington Park Press)\n\nWell  given that abuse of some type (physical, emotional or sexual) occurs to a very large number of teens (I know and knew few who didn't take some form of one of them), given that over 50% of children live in single parent households now, and given that drugs are very prevalent in all segments of society --- this simply gives the extremists  a carte blanche to always find something to blame homosexuality on.\n\nThe reality is that homosexuality exists in nearly all animal species (see Dr. Bruce Bagemihl; Biological Exuberance; St. Martin's Press) and has always existed in human culture -- with or without a defining community -- usually just folded in as a part of the total society (among the Greeks, the Romans, many American Indian tribes, and some other primitives -- among most societies in the pre-Muslim middle east and parts of the far east).\n\nHomosexuality simply is.  The search for "reasons" that allow one to either demonize or claim to be able to cure homosexuality has gone on in every homophobic society that ever existed, and is part and parcel of a desire, for some to wipe out the group, and for others to escape it.  The American Religious Right is just the latest group to join a cascade of groups over the millennia that were afraid of homosexuals because they were different (and because deep inside some of the leaders really like bois -- and hate themselves for it.).\n\nSo there are several more likely possibilities with your bisexual friends than that the molestation caused the sexuality.  One is that the molestation was incidental. One is that the molestation allowed them to more honestly look at their own desires and while incidental helped them admit to themselves that they liked same sex relationships.    The last (and I hesitate to mention this) is that one was molested, or said he was -- and the experience "spread."  There's been quite a lot of work done on how that type of thing works -- but basically it is the same way a story spreads, except with molestation stories, it is always the self that was molested.  It makes legitimate psychological work in the field hellacious.\n\nDon't know if that helps, but I hope so.\n\nRegards,\n\nReyn\nbelieveinyou24@yahoo.com
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Just remember that the laws on rape require that a man can only have sex with a woman if she is truly capable of giving him consent. If you get her drunk and manage to have sex with her  (especially as you know she is a lesbian) she could wake up the next day and report you for rape and she would have a good case.\n\nThere are plenty of girls out there that you could have without getting to this sort of mess. I think that you just like the challenge of conquering a lesbian. \n\nSome lesbians are capable of having sex with men (like a sex toy), and be strippers or prosititutes but you could never have a lesbian's heart.\n\nThere also heterosexual male prositutes that aren't gay but would have sex with men for money.
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NO!!!! by any means! RAPE is RAPE and you need to report this crime...male or female can both be victims ...rape has no gender!!!
700665
Im a guy but trust me..i will never force a woman to do anything like that.  I know many women dont tell anyone about it though in fear that the guy will come back and do it again.
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It actually works the same way as with a female, when the guy or girl says stop and the girls doesn't...that is all it takes, but a guy most likely will not come out and admit he was raped.
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You can still get the guy for molestation and attempted rape!  Just because you're 14 doesn't mean he didn't do those things to you, older women get molested and raped and they press charges... your detective is a fool!
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yup- sure can.  Both men and women can have them.
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Before you asked this question, I never heard of this law. I looked it up and this is very interesting. This law is only in India, correct? It seems as if men are the victims from this law.\n\nFrom once men could have it worse than women? Who knew?
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i dont really know, but what i do know is that in Pakistan islamic laws at the moment say that if a woman is raped they have to have 4 male witnesses or they are tried for adultry, and they are only considering changing the law now!
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THANK YOU!! women hit hard and men are beaten a lot adn the women are never punished but if a man touches someones shoulder to hard BAM! you get a restraining order and a filthy record. the answer is do the woman thing and call the police. she as a woman is hitting u and putting u in the position of the classic woman. so do what the classic abused woman shoudl do and call the police. have HER arrested...damn good of you..