What do you think public perception would be of two teenage girls who played with the genitals of an unconscious drunk guy?
Tangentially, it might be similar to public perception of this writer. From the top-displayed comments:
This is rape. Period. You’re one sick fuck.
Also:
Yes, because when a man is aroused it’s totally not rape is it...Fucking hell you’re stupid...
Edit: It might be a poor example of a gender-symmetrical act, since one actually can “play with” male genitals non-sexually; I do it whenever I use the bathroom, and have it done whenever I have a medical chekcup.
Two comments don’t exactly constitute public perception.
Incidentally, some women also touch themselves when they use the restroom (incidence rate is who the fuck knows) for approximately the same reasons, and, uh, you’ve never heard complaints about speculums?
Ford, Liwag-McLamb, and Foley, 1998 (among other studies, such as “What is a typical rape? Effects of victim and participant gender in female and male rape perception” by Irina Anderson in the British Journal of Social Psychology) suggest that people are less likely to label a given incident rape if the victim is a male, more likely to regard a male victim as complicit in or partially responsible for the rape, and more likely to regard male victims of rape negatively (the term used in the literature is generally “homophobic response”).
Incidentally, as for the legal status of the two girls—it wouldn’t be rape. It wouldn’t even be sexual assault. It’s generally classified as sexual battery, and is a misdemeanor in most jurisdictions.
Tangentially, it might be similar to public perception of this writer. From the top-displayed comments:
Also:
Edit: It might be a poor example of a gender-symmetrical act, since one actually can “play with” male genitals non-sexually; I do it whenever I use the bathroom, and have it done whenever I have a medical chekcup.
Two comments don’t exactly constitute public perception.
Incidentally, some women also touch themselves when they use the restroom (incidence rate is who the fuck knows) for approximately the same reasons, and, uh, you’ve never heard complaints about speculums?
Ford, Liwag-McLamb, and Foley, 1998 (among other studies, such as “What is a typical rape? Effects of victim and participant gender in female and male rape perception” by Irina Anderson in the British Journal of Social Psychology) suggest that people are less likely to label a given incident rape if the victim is a male, more likely to regard a male victim as complicit in or partially responsible for the rape, and more likely to regard male victims of rape negatively (the term used in the literature is generally “homophobic response”).
Incidentally, as for the legal status of the two girls—it wouldn’t be rape. It wouldn’t even be sexual assault. It’s generally classified as sexual battery, and is a misdemeanor in most jurisdictions.