Hey, this is Bridget and this is Annie and you're listening to Stuff Mom Never Told You.

Now today I want to give a quick trigger warning because we're going to be talking about

more me too and sexual violence and sex crimes so if that is something that is difficult

for you to listen to, just know that that is what today's episode is all about.

On this show we have talked quite a bit about me too, sexual violence, sex crimes, sexual

harassment and I feel like we've actually been pretty intentional about talking about

the different avenues of it when the victim is a man, you know, different industries.

But this is the first time that we're really getting into what happens when the perpetrator

is a woman and a notable feminist.

And for a little background, female perpetrators of sexual abuse are understudied but according

to a peer reviewed study, the sexual victimization of men in America, new data, challenge, old

assumptions in the American Journal of Public Health, men are more likely to be victims

of sex crimes than we thought.

For example, the CDC's nationally representative data revealed that over one year, men and

women were equally likely to experience non-consensual sex and most male victims reported

female perpetrators.

Over their lifetime, 79% of men who were made to penetrate someone else, a form of rape

in the view of most researchers, reported female perpetrators.

And likewise, most men who experienced sexual coercion and unwanted sexual contact had

female perpetrators.

And when women are behind bars and sexually abused by prison staff, the perpetrator is

usually female.

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