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Interesting fact: majority of rape victims in USA are male.

This has been addressed a couple of times. Note that 1) the 216,000 number is for victims of "sexual abuse" which doesn't necessarily mean "rape" and 2) not all inmates of penitentiaries are male.

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Also, isn't 216,000 a pretty small number (ignoring the, uh, horror of it)? I usually hear numbers like "1 in 6 women" or "1 in 4 Native American women".

That is because official statistics use penetration as the definition of rape. "Forced envelopment" (women raping men) is not counted as rape.

How is that even possible to have the exact same act be counted differently solely based on who is the aggressor?

Dunno, ask the FBI.

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