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For the first time in 83 years the United States Department of Justice announced a “major” change in its sexist reporting practices on sexual assault, by re-defining rape to include male victims as well.

While rape is traumatic for everyone, boys and men are more likely than girls or women to keep that violence to themselves for extended periods of time — if not, forever — and to grapple with a host of mental and emotional ills that accompany their decision, clinicians said.

“There is a certain stigma attached to male-on-male assaults,” said Jennifer Marsh, hotline director for the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN). “We expect men to be protectors and we find it’s much easier to discuss if it’s a female victim.

Two friends who falsely claimed they were raped were jailed yesterday because the suspect had photos of them all having a threesome.

Statistics show that women can be just as violent as men, but while there millions of dollars provided for shelters for abused women, you don’t any resources for abused men.

THOUSANDS of women in fishnets and stilettos will take to the streets of Brisbane and Melbourne to protest sexual harassment.

A recent case in England highlighted the dangers of turning bad teenage sex into a criminal matter.

In a recent interview, Julian Assange joined defenders who have blamed feminism, writ large, for his recent sexual assault charges, saying that he “fell into a hornets’ nest of revolutionary feminism.” He added that one of the women who claims that she was sexually assaulted by him took a “trophy photo” of him lying naked in her bed (so clearly, she’s a liar).

A recent case in Canada involving a couple that engaged in consensual kinky sex is testing the limits of the concept of prior consent. In the case, a man and woman had agreed to asphyxiation during sex, but when the woman was asphyxiated she says she came to and found out, she claims to have repealed her consent.

A Queensland grandfather who complained he was denied access to his granddaughter over incorrect incest claims was the victim of a paperwork error, the state government says.