Sexual violence is not just something that happens to women. Our men also experience extraordinary rates of sexual violence, both in the way that they are seen as predators who are guilty before they’ve done anything at all as well as the sexual assaults that are endemic to prisons, or “rape factories,” as I have heard them described. We recognize that the prison rape of women is a problem, but when men go to prison, rape is either a joke or a threat. Sexual violence and threats of sexual violence are used by police to gain compliance. The assaults on our boys and young men moved from
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