When sexual offenders see that hazing, sexual harassment and gender discrimination are permissible in a unit, and that others appear to be tolerant of these behaviors, "it greenlights sexual assault for offenders," Dr. Hazing that involves sexual acts or sexual contact is sometimes hard for service members to recognize as criminal behavior, Dr. In fact, more men than women indicated that their experience was consistent with hazing, and intended to abuse or humiliate them, rather than for some kind of sexual purpose." "Survey takers were then asked to use that definition to indicate whether or not they would consider their experience to be at least aligned or consistent with those events we would describe as hazing. "One of the things that RAND did for us was to show our survey takers a definition of hazing," Dr.
"This didn't look like the typical fact pattern of sexual assaults commonly portrayed in the media."
"This was something that for many of us stopped us cold in our tracks," said Dr. Relative to women, he said, men are more likely to experience multiple incidents of sexual assault, at the hands of multiple offenders, during duty hours or at their duty station, where alcohol is not a factor. However, the scenarios that involve the sexual assault of men are often different than that, Dr. For women, such incidents often occur off base, after duty hours. Often times, situations that lead to sexual assaults begin in more social settings, often when alcohol is being served. Most sexual assaults typically occur between people that know each other. And for another 10 percent of the time, it was multiple individuals, including both men and women acting together. About 30 percent of the time they indicated it was a woman offender. The DOD survey results also showed that of the men who experienced a sexual assault, about 60 percent of the time it was another man who committed the assault. Of those, about 10,500 were men, and about 9,500 were women. In 2014, about 20,000 of those surveyed had experienced a sexual assault in the previous year. That was a sobering statistic."Ī later, more recent study, conducted in 2014 by the RAND Corporation, showed that fewer military members were experiencing sexual assault.
"After further analysis, we realized that 14,000 of those 34,000 members were women and 20,000 of those 34,000 members were men. "In 2006, we estimated there were 34,000 service members who experienced some form of sexual assault, whether that was a contact crime, like groping, or a penetrative crime, like rape," Dr. Ultimately, this means that there are more military men who have been sexually assaulted than their female counterparts. military is a unique population, with approximately six times the number of men than women in uniform. During that same one-year period, about 5 percent of women in uniform will be. Overall, DOD's most recent scientific survey indicates that during any one-year period, about one percent of men in uniform will be sexually assaulted, Dr. They are concerned about this because most men have never thought of themselves as anything other than straight." Also, does being sexually assaulted by a man make you gay? Victimized men have questions about their orientation. "Does being assaulted mean I'm weak? That's especially relevant for people who have spent most of their adult lives trying to be strong, putting on a uniform, and being a warrior. Galbreath of why the reporting discrepancy between males and females may exist. there's a lot of concern for men about what a sexual assault means to them," said Dr. "Our culture is focused on the idea that men are supposed to be strong. For every four women that report an assault, only one male reports. Sexual assault against male Soldiers is more under-reported than assaults on female Soldiers, Dr. Galbreath provided that hazing-related anecdote following a panel discussion he participated in at the Pentagon, April 8, regarding male sexual assault. Galbreath, Senior Executive Advisor to the Department of Defense Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office.ĭr. WASHINGTON (Army News Service, April 11, 2016) - "News reports in the past included accounts of Soldiers arriving in Afghanistan who had been held down and sexually assaulted as a form of unit initiation," said Dr. A DOD scientific survey indicates that during any one-year period, about one percent of men in uniform will be sexually assaulted, while about 5 perce.
Often, sexual assaults on men come in the context of bullying, other forms of violence, or hazing. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL 2 / 2 Show Caption + Hide Caption – The military has about six times the number of men as women, however. A 2014 study showed that of 20,300 active component service members who had been sexually assaulted, about 10,600 were men, while 9,600 were women.