Was Hitler's Homosexuality Nazism's Best-Kept Secret?

There is very rarely anything wrong with that.

I think Khepera is Ned Flanders after getting man-raped.

Did you read the Libertarian platform before you signed up to run as a Libertarian?

Did you think that was important?

Or didn't you really care about all the philosophy and political positions and junk?

Yes sir, and considering a few that defend Hitler, I begin to understand some other things as well.

o,?,, your ability to actually glean meaning out of words has long been called into question. Here, I'll make it easy for you and pull out the relevant quotes:

In 1996, the year before Nebraska correctional officials told Human Rights Watch that prisoner-on-prison sexual abuse was uncommon, Professor Cindy Struckman-Johnson and her colleagues published the results of a survey of state prison inmates there. They concluded that 22 percent of male inmates had been pressured or forced to have sexual contact against their will while incarcerated.(354) Of these, over 50 percent had submitted to forced anal sex at least once.(355) Extrapolating these findings to the national level would give a total of over 140,000 inmates who have been anally raped.(356)

Past academic research has confirmed the prevalence of underreporting. The 1996 Nebraska study found that only 29 percent of victimized inmates had informed prison officials of the abuses they suffered.(364) Similarly, a 1988 survey of correctional officers in Texas found that 73 percent of respondents believed that inmates do not report rape to officials.(365) A groundbreaking 1968 study of Philadephia penal institutions found that of an estimated 2,000 rapes that occurred, only ninety-six had been reported to prison authorities.(366)

By far the highest rate and highest absolute number of alleged inmate-on-inmate sexual assaults, according to the numbers provided by correctional departments, belong to Texas. With 237 allegations of sexual assault in 1999 (over double the number of allegations registered in 1998), compared to an inmate population of 146,574, Texas had one allegation of sexual assault for every 618 prisoners.(376)

A corrections department internal survey of guards in a southern state (provided to Human Rights Watch on the condition that the state not be identified) found that line officers--those charged with the direct supervision of inmates--estimated that roughly one-fifth of all prisoners were being coerced into participation in inmate-on-inmate sex. Interestingly, higher-ranking officials--those at the supervisory level--tended to give lower estimates of the frequency of abuse, while inmates themselves gave much higher estimates: the two groups cited victimization rates of roughly one-eighth and one-third, respectively. Although the author of the survey was careful to note that it was not conducted in accordance with scientific standards, and thus its findings may not be perfectly reliable, the basic conclusions are still striking. Even taking only the lowest of the three estimates of coerced sexual activity--and even framing that one conservatively--more than one in ten inmates in the prisons surveyed was subject to sexual abuse. Similarly, a 1988 study of line officers in the Texas prison system found that only 9 percent of officers believed that rape in prison was a "rare" occurrence, while 87 percent thought that it was not rare.(377) These findings are even more notable when one considers that the question was limited to instance of "rape"--not sexual abuse in general--a term that many people conceive of narrowly (typically believing that rape only occurs where force is used).

Finally, the 1996 Nebraska study found that prison staff in three men's prisons estimated that in all some 16 percent of male inmates were being pressured or forced into sexual contact.(378) The rates were slightly lower that those estimated by inmates in the same facilities.

The first empirical study of the issue, sparked by reports that Philadephia pretrial detainees were being raped even in vans on the way to court, was conducted in 1968 by a local district attorney. After interviewing thousands of inmates and hundreds of correctional officers, as well as examining institutional records, he found that sexual assaults were "epidemic" in the Philadelphia system. "[V]irtually every slightly-built young man committed by the court is sexually approached within a day or two after his admission to prison," the author said. "Many of these young men are repeatedly raped by gangs of prisoners."(380) In all, he found that slightly over 3 percent of inmates--an estimated 2,000 men --had been sexually assaulted during the twenty-six-month period examined. Although he was careful to exclude instances of consensual homosexual contact from his findings, he also acknowledged that some instances of apparently consensual sex might in fact have a coercive basis, due to the "fear-charged atmosphere" of the penal system. The New York study, conducted by criminologist Daniel Lockwood, was the second major effort to assess the prevalence of prisoner-on-prisoner sexual abuse. It too found that sexual targeting--typically accompanied by violence--was frequent, though actual rape much less common. According to Lockwood's data, based on interviews with eighty-nine randomly selected inmates, 28 percent had been the targets of sexual aggression at some point, but only one inmate had been raped.(381) The 1982 study of a medium-security men's prison in California found that a startling 14 percent of prisoners had been forced into anal or oral sex. Based on data from anonymous questionnaires distributed to a random sampling of 200 members of the inmate population--or some 10 percent of the total inmates--the study emphasized that "sexual exploitation in prison is an actuality."(382) Indeed, asserted the authors, life behind bars is, for many inmates, "a criminal act itself." Three subsequent empirical studies had mixed findings as to the prevalence of prisoner-on-prisoner rape and other sexual abuse. The federal prisons study, published in 1983, found that only one of 330 inmates had been forcibly sodomized while in federal prison while two others had been forced to "perform a sex act" (presumably fellatio or some other act besides sodomy). Twenty-nine percent of inmates did, however, state that they had been propositioned for sex while in their institution, and 11 percent had been "targets of sexual aggression." The authors defined sexual aggression narrowly, only considering acts that involved physical violence. Similarly, the Ohio and Delaware studies looked only at "rape" (which many people, inmates in particular, interpret as requiring the use of physical force), finding few incidents: none of the 137 inmates surveyed in Ohio had been victims of rape, and only one of 101 inmates surveyed in Delaware.(383) Five additional Delaware inmates did, however, say that they had been subject to an attempted rape; 4 percent of the inmates surveyed reported that they had witnessed at least one rape within the previous year, and 21.8 percent said that had witnessed at least one attempted rape. The 1996 Nebraska study, discussed above, found an extremely high rate of sexual abuse, including forced or coerced oral and anal intercourse; it concluded that 22 percent of male had been sexually pressured or abused since being incarcerated. Notably, the authors focused on "unwanted" sexual contact--covering a much broader range of sexual activity than that simply involving physical force. And, in December 2000, the Prison Journal published the results of a similar study of inmates in seven men's prison facilities in four mid-western states. The results showed that 21 percent of the inmates had experienced at least one episode of pressured or forced sexual contact since being incarcerated, and at least 7 percent had been raped in their facility.(384)

I'm counting you as a 'man in touch with his feelings'.

Now if you could only establish contact with your 'thinkings', you'd be back on the road to recovery.

No wonder I quit the Libertarians! Feh! They run candidates like you!!

So "The Producers" turns out to be a documentary!

Nazism is the liberal's utopia. It is no surprise that Hitler and his gang were fruitcakes who flamed behind closed doors. The limp wristed hand salute of Hitler was that of a lithping faggot. Homos are mentally deranged as they abhor normal behaviour.

Thanks for the link, but I was thinking more along the lines of reputable Historians, not some goofy group that uses phrases like "Wisconsin Christians United, is a right-wing fundamentalist hate group located in Monroe, Wisconsin."

It is not Nazism's best kept secret.

This is the best kep secret.

Project Paperclip

I see what the problem is. Your equating Jail to prison. Are there figures on Jailhouse rape? Jail time is much shorter than prison time. I don’t think the time is going to be very long for most convictions of this sort. I doubt many would actually go to prison. Personally I don't really have much concern. I'm somewhat insensitive.

Going by what you said most shoplifters better watch out cause if they get caught then they will go to prison and be gang raped by bubba and his pals. I don't believe this. I still feel your being catastrophic.

Ok what do you mean candidates like me?

See reply 72.

Good article. Very helpful.

Ok what do you mean candidates like me?

Simpletons?

I see what the problem is. Your equating Jail to prison.

Inspector Holmes, perhaps the bars should give a clue.

"OK what do you mean candidates like me?"

Yes, candidates like you...'simpletons'?

Perhaps. I prefer to see it as intellectual onanism, with little relationship to native intelligence.

Sceptical therapy is advised. ;^)

Oh! We meet again. I have not read the thread, so please be so kind to fill me in. What is the question? Hitler had no conscience so what is the discussion?

So since you cannot defend your position you call me names. Your only defense so far has been "Its not fair" "You're mean" "Your stupid" "Your a liar" "Your a Nazi" "Jail is a bad place to go" "You're a simpleton". I see.