{"id":156869,"date":"2017-03-09T11:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/?p=156869"},"modified":"2017-03-09T06:08:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T06:08:57","slug":"letter-to-the-badgers-on-sexual-assault-against-disabled-males","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/2017\/03\/09\/letter-to-the-badgers-on-sexual-assault-against-disabled-males\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the Badgers on sexual assault against disabled males"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Peter Wright<\/p>\n

Excerpt from the 3-part series, “A male-centered approach to disability<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Disabled males are four times more likely than nondisabled men to be sexually assaulted or raped.[3] The researchers of that study found that more than 5 percent of disabled men reported experiencing sexual assault during the past year, about equal to sexual assaults against disabled women.[3]<\/p>\n

Citation: [3] Mitra, Monika, Vera E. Mouradian, and Marci Diamond. Sexual Violence Victimization Against Men with Disabilities,<\/i> American Journal of Preventive Medicine (2011) http:\/\/www.ajpmonline.org\/article\/S0749-3797%2811%2900515-0\/abstract<\/a> <\/b><\/p>\n

If \u2018rape culture\u2019 is based in social invisibility and voicelessness of a victim group, then disabled men are dealing with a legitimate rape culture \u2013 one entrenched by the people who receive a weekly pay-cheque to help lift that silence. Again a Google search speaks volumes:<\/p>\n

\u25ba\u201cSexual violence against disabled women\u201d = 1520 results.
\n\u25ba\u201cSexual violence against disabled men\u201d = 0 results.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Also<\/p>\n

Re non-sexual violence experienced by disabled males:<\/p>\n

The belief among support workers that disabled men are safe from violence has created an environment in which abused men are less likely to speak up and seek help\u2026 there is no encouragement to do otherwise. Despite the fact that U.S. Department of Justice has reported violent crimes against disabled men and women at roughly equal rates,[4] a Google search for information delivers the following disparity of awareness:<\/p>\n

\u25ba\u201cViolence against disabled women\u201d = 4330 results.
\n\u25ba\u201cViolence against disabled men\u201d = 9 results.<\/p>\n

[4] Harrell, E., Rand, M., Crime Against People with Disabilities,<\/i> U.S. Department of Justice (2008) http:\/\/www.bjs.gov\/content\/pub\/pdf\/capd08.pdf<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

More of Peter Wright’s work can be seen at avoiceformen.com<\/a> and on his website, Gynocentrism.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"reddit\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peter Wright comments on the prevalence and invisibility of sexually exploited disabled men and boys<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":156870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"libsyn-item-id":0,"libsyn-show-id":0,"libsyn-post-error":"","libsyn-post-error_post-type":"","libsyn-post-error_post-permissions":"","libsyn-post-error_api":"","playlist-podcast-url":"","libsyn-episode-thumbnail":"","libsyn-episode-widescreen_image":"","libsyn-episode-blog_image":"","libsyn-episode-background_image":"","libsyn-post-episode-category-selection":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_thumbnail":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_theme":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_height":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_width":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_placement":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link_text":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_custom_color":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-explicit":"","libsyn-post-episode":"","libsyn-post-episode-update-id3":"","libsyn-post-episode-release-date":"","libsyn-post-episode-simple-download":"","libsyn-release-date":"","libsyn-post-update-release-date":"","libsyn-is_draft":"","libsyn-new-media-media":"","libsyn-post-episode-subtitle":"","libsyn-new-media-image":"","libsyn-post-episode-keywords":"","libsyn-post-itunes":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-season-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-type":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-title":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-author":"","libsyn-destination-releases":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-enabled":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-input-enabled":false,"libsyn-post-episode-premium_state":"","libsyn-episode-shortcode":"","libsyn-episode-embedurl":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[767,584],"tags":[69,279,294,262,220,282,179,99,108],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156869"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156873,"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156869\/revisions\/156873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156869"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honeybadgerbrigade.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=156869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}