Posted on 04/08/2011 8:23:18 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
What happened to Jeloudov is a part of life in the armed forces that hardly anyone talks about: male-on-male sexual assault. In the staunchly traditional military culture, its an ugly secret, kept hidden by layers of personal shame and official denial. Last year nearly 50,000 male veterans screened positive for military sexual trauma at the Department of Veterans Affairs, up from just over 30,000 in 2003. For the victims, the experience is a special kind of hella soldier cant just quit his job to get away from his abusers. But now, as the Pentagon has begun to acknowledge the rampant problem of sexual violence for both genders, men are coming forward in unprecedented numbers, telling their stories and hoping that speaking up will help them, and others, put their lives back together. We dont like to think that our men can be victims, says Kathleen Chard, chief of the posttraumatic-stress unit at the Cincinnati VA. We dont want to think that it could happen to us. If a man standing in front of me who is my size, my skill level, who has been rapedwhat does that mean about me? I can be raped, too.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Boys and men are in deep trouble with what is going on in our culture. Aggressive homosexuality is promoted and protected in our society now.
I hope we, as a society, don’t continue to deny what is happening. And I hope we can learn to stop blaming the victim for what has happened to him. We need to go after abusers like bats out of hell - the same way we have gone after the sexual abusers of women.
The other thing going on is the dropping of taboos against adults sexually interacting verbally or physically with minors.
Man, we better get on top of this or we are going to have a whole generation raped. Sexual abuse is going hyper aggressive.
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These guys and gals dump out more data than the frigging nyt.
Everyone knows how these things work out on the ground anyhow.
Sexual assault has more to do with a struggle for power and dominance over the victim than it does with sexual attraction. A surprising number of rapists have girlfriends in consensual relationships too. And in concentration camps, like those under the Argentine military dictatorship in the 70s and 80s, it wasn’t unheard of for heterosexual guards to rape male prisoners.
The rumors circulated constantly, but never able to confirm any of them."
I spent 11 years in the Army, and never heard anything of the sort. Not saying there weren't (suspected) closeted homos around, but the only soldiers I knew who actually got out on homo discharges were dirtbag losers who were looking for any way out of the service.
I don't know what to believe. On one hand, I want to call BS on the article, but on the other hand, today's Army (and military in general) isn't the same one I left in '96. Years of homo acceptance in society had done irreparable damage to the services, I fear.
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You know how our society thinks male on male rape in prision is funny or of no real consequence...I think the military has picked up some of that attitude.
I would be perfectly fine with me if a victim- male or female - executed her or his military rapist. However, if it is dependent upon a higher up’s decision to execute, it looks doubtful because they are not taking it as seriously as it is.
They might have 50,000 male victims of homosexual rape. Heterosexual males don’t really have any protection from this in culture or in legal activism. Gays have protection to be as aggressive as they want to be sexually. There is a serious imbalance of power and heterosexual men are going to suffer from that.
Oh, that is way gross. We have to make that so taboo in our society. We can begin by ending the prision rape of males.
I don’t know. The timing is suspicious. And with the current people in charge, we know they hate the military, and want to destroy its moral, and destroy its reputation among the US civilian population. Someone on the site calling herself Sarah Nabb says she is a victim of Military Sexual Trauma (MST). Never heard of that before. Sounds like a new Leftist term to blame the military as a whole for the actions of a few sick individuals. Plus she talks about how they are all “heroes”. More Dem talking points. Like I said, the article sounds suspicious.
Must be the navy.
I trust the Marxists - who are in control of culturally cleansing our soicety of sexual norms - as far as I can throw them.
On the other hand, I have been witnessing an increase in male on male rape and seeing the prision culture where raping males is considered just or funny, seeping out into our culture in general. When boys are raped, they often rape other boys.
I don’t want to deny evil because that is how it grows and gets more powerful. So, I will beleive this until based on the testimony of the men who were humilated and raped until it is proven otherwise given what is going on in our society in general. The military is no better than the Americans they recruit. Americans, especially children, are being bombarded by aggressive cultural cleansing in the name of gay normalization.
I believe that is still true; the UCMJ lists the relevant penalties, and those allowing for immediate execution are appended with "... shall be punished by death or such punishment as a court-martial may direct." See ART. 99. MISBEHAVIOR BEFORE THE ENEMY under Section X: Punitive Articles for example.
I’m very surprised that liberal Newsweek magazine is publishing a story about homosexual rape in the military. Generally the MSM does not report anything which reflects badly on the homosexual community.
That said, it’s a serious issue, and the perpetrators should be severely dealt with.
Rape is subject to the death penalty.
It is in there, thank you for the link.
Also meant to add, the UCMJ normally specifies that the respective penalty be determined after a finding of guilt by Courts Martial. This doesn’t list it as one of the possible results of a CM; there is no requirement of any legal action other than by a commanding officer’s discretion.
Just like the Catholic priests who buggered little boys—and only little boys—were pedophiles rather than homosexuals. Now if you pointed out to a lib that they were homosexual pedophiles...well you were the one with the problem. Ah, the lieberal mind.
I have one or two of them in the family.
They do not say much regarding this particular subject that I would relate publicly.
In short form, the units generally police themselves out of their moral base, regardless of the desires or orders issued by higher ranking personnel.
The officers understand this, and in fact count on such as a simple mechanism of unit control.
I get a kick out of the leftists who hate the military... They have no conception of cohesion or morality required to keep a pack of twentysomethings with automatic firearms and hand grenades in order. They do it all on their own, and they do it finer than any other force on the planet amongst themselves. They reach a balance... Or they die.
I’ve often thought that it was a strange think that normally decent people think rape in prison is funny. Every time Jay Leno, or some other comic, makes a joke about it, the audience roars. I can only assume that some are laughing because they finally feel the victim is getting justice, or payback. Still, it’s not amusing.
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