Data Points: Male Survivors of Sexual Assault (featuring LeRon Barton)
Something Was Wrong
Broken Cycle Media | Wondery
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🗓️ 14 January 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
*Content Warning: sexual assault, sexual abuse, sexual violence, rape, suicidal ideation, and mental illness.
Resources:
Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network: RAINN.org
1 in 6 Organization: 1in6.org
1 in 6 Organization Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/1in6org
National Sexual Violence Resource Center: https://www.nsvrc.org/find-help
National Sexual Assault Hotline (1800-656-4763): https://www.rainn.org/resources
Sources:
The 1 in 6 Statistic. (n.d.). One in Six Organization. Retrieved June 26, 2024, from https://1in6.org/statistic/
Cal Poly Humboldt & North Coast Rape Crisis Team. (n.d.). Supporting Survivors. Sexualized Violence Statistics. Retrieved June 26, 2024, from https://supportingsurvivors.humboldt.edu/statistic
Chen LP, Murad MH, Paras ML, Colbenson KM, Sattler AL, Goranson EN, Elamin MB, Seime RJ, Shinozaki G, Prokop LJ, Zirakzadeh A. Sexual abuse and lifetime diagnosis of psychiatric disorders: systematic review and meta-analysis. Mayo Clin Proc. 2010 Jul;85(7):618-29. doi: 10.4065/mcp.2009.0583. Epub 2010 May 10. PMID: 20458101; PMCID: PMC2894717. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2894717/
March 2020 Delayed Disclosure: A Factsheet Based on Cutting-Edge Research on Child Sexual Abuse. (2020). Montana Legislature. Retrieved June 26, 2024, from https://leg.mt.gov/bills/2023/Minutes/Senate/Exhibits/230227JUSa3.pdf
T. Muller, R., PhD. (2020, October 15). The Invisible Male Victims of Sexual Trauma. Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/talking-about-trauma/202010/the-invisible-male-victims-sexual-trauma
National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey: 2015 Data Brief - Updated Release. (2018). National Center for Injury Prevention and Control Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved June 26, 2024, from https://www.nsvrc.org/sites/default/files/2021-04/2015data-brief508.pdf
National Sexual Violence Resource Center. (n.d.). Sexual Assault: Statistics. Retrieved June 26, 2024, from https://www.nsvrc.org/statistics
Petersson, C.C., Plantin, L. Breaking with Norms of Masculinity: Men Making Sense of Their Experience of Sexual Assault. Clin Soc Work J 47, 372–383 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10615-019-00699-y
Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network. (n.d.). Perpetrators of Sexual Violence: Statistics. RAINN. Retrieved June 26, 2024, from https://www.rainn.org/statistics/perpetrators-sexual-violence
Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network. (n.d.-b). Sexual Assault of Men and Boys: Statistics. Retrieved June 26, 2024, from https://www.rainn.org/articles/sexual-assault-men-and-boys
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. (n.d.). National Center for PTSD: Sexual Assault - Males. https://www.ptsd.va.gov/understand/types/sexual_trauma_male.asp
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Leron’s Website: https://leronbarton.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Wonderly Plus subscribers can listen to Something Was Wrong early and ad-free right now. |
| 0:06.2 | Join Wonderly Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:14.3 | Hi, friends. It's Loran Barton from Loranbarton.com. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm guest hosting this episode of Broken Cycle Media's new series of educational episodes |
| 0:23.8 | data points. |
| 0:25.4 | These special episodes will include educational information, statistics, and support on |
| 0:30.8 | different topics that are important to our community. |
| 0:33.6 | Thank you so much for listening. |
| 0:35.9 | Before we begin, it's important to understand what constitutes sexual abuse and assault. |
| 0:42.4 | Psychology today defines sexual abuse as, quote, any sexual activity that occurs without consent. |
| 0:49.2 | Also referred to as sexual assault or violence, it includes unwanted sexual touching, forced oral sex, |
| 0:57.0 | rape, among other sexual acts. |
| 0:59.0 | When the terms sexual abuse and sexual assault are mentioned, it is the societal norm to |
| 1:05.0 | instinctively think of women as the typical victims of these crimes. |
| 1:09.0 | Relatedly, the National Sexual Violence Resource Center |
| 1:13.4 | reports that in the United States, |
| 1:15.6 | nearly 52 million women will experience |
| 1:18.3 | some form of sexual violence in their lifetime, |
| 1:21.1 | with one in five women reporting attempted or completed rape. |
| 1:25.6 | And although the U.S. Department of Justice reports men perpetrate |
| 1:29.5 | 99% of sexual violence, this does not disclude men from being victims. Sexual violence can and |
| 1:37.1 | does often happen to men as well, despite a frequent lack of representation in statistics. |
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