Break the stigma
Men can talk about sexual assault.
It happens to men and boys. It is never deserved, and physical arousal is not consent.
The research
In the United States, nearly one in four men report experiencing some form of contact sexual violence in their lifetime.
Source: Basile, K. C., Smith, S. G., Kresnow, M., Khatiwada, S., and Leemis, R. W. (2022). The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey: 2016/2017 Report on Sexual Violence. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
You don't have to call it trauma before you're allowed to talk about it.
Male survivors often hear the same myths: that men cannot be assaulted, that a man should have fought back, that arousal means he wanted it. None of these are true. This campaign challenges those myths in public so that survivors do not have to challenge them alone.
Inside this campaign
Myths and facts
If it happened to you
If someone tells you
Finding a service that serves men
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