male-rape

‘Oz’ Changed the Way We Look at Crime, Punishment and Naked Men

The searing prison drama wouldn’t let us escape one of America’s greatest failures

The Male Rape Scene in ‘Deliverance’ Was So Jarring, It Gave Us a Half Century of Jokes

John Boorman’s acclaimed 1972 film gave audiences a depiction of male rape that remains powerful, unsettling and unresolved. Rather than confronting its implications, we’ve spent the last several decades parodying it.

Why These Survivors Hold On to Their ‘Rape Clothes’

‘It’s something I’ll carry — always. To throw them away seems like that’s where my story would go, too.’

Why Men Struggle to Believe That They’ve Been Sexually Assaulted by a Woman

When they’ve been abused by another man, they call it exactly what it is — rape. But when it’s a woman, it’s a completely different story.