“Son, men don’t get raped”

Unless they are in the military. In the CQ article on male victims of sexual assault in the military that I mentioned previously when I referenced a Slate piece about it, there are many statements from former male members of the military who were sexually assaulted. The one that stands out the most to me is this one: “There’s nothing I could have done, except never have joined the military.” Well said. Don’t enlist in the first place. You may not go to Afghanistan or Iraq and get your legs or your genitals blown off, but you may stay in the United States and be killed in a training accident or be sexually assaulted.

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