South Africa Rape Study: 1 In 4 Men Admit Rape
Posted by Danger on June 18th, 2009 filed in WTF?, World News, fail
One in four men in South Africa admitted to raping someone and many confessed to attacking multiple victims, according to a new study conducted by the Medical Research Council and reported by the Mail and Guardian:
Of those surveyed, 28% said they had raped a woman or girl, and 3% said they had raped a man or boy. Almost half who said they had carried out a rape admitted they had done so more than once, with 73% saying they had carried out their first assault before the age of 20.
The study, which had British funding, also found that men who are physically violent towards women are twice as likely to be HIV-positive. They are also more likely to pay for sex and to not use condoms.
The study also found that gang rape is common in South Africa because it is considered a form of male bonding, reports the BBC.
“The absolute imperative is we have to change the underlying social attitudes that in a way have created a norm that coercing women into sex is on some level acceptable,” Professor Rachel Jewkes of the MRC told the BBC.
June 18th, 2009 at 10:27 AM
I think I had a minor mental breakdown when I read this.
June 18th, 2009 at 10:45 AM
I remember the pope saying that he doesn’t support educating or encouraging Africans to use condoms. Saying it would spread AIDS even more.
“gang rape is common in South Africa because it is considered a form of male bonding” is one of the worst things I’ve ever read.
June 18th, 2009 at 11:12 AM
Male bonding….gangbang.
How in god name can you put those 2 words in the same sentence?
June 18th, 2009 at 11:18 AM
This make me wanna puke until i die -_-
June 18th, 2009 at 11:36 AM
what a bunch of fucking freaks…oh yeah lets rape her together brothers…are you kidding me? What makes them think this is ok? No fucking common decency, no fucking future, no hope…
June 18th, 2009 at 6:29 PM
Mikey, that’s dramatic.
They aren’t freaks, that’s how were they were raised, its their culture. Obviously, that doesn’t make it right, its repulsive ans sickening to say the least, but its people like you declaring there’s no hope that enable it to keep happening. There is hope, provided they are educated with someone from a different mindset than the popes. I understand your anger, I have plenty of it regarding things like this, but don’t accuse them of hopelessness.
June 18th, 2009 at 8:37 PM
It’s as much a part of their culture as it is in ours — date-rape on college campuses, “she was asking for it”, et cetera …………………….. But the general consensus regarding rape in South Africa is that it is WRONG — same as here.
So, no, I wouldn’t call them freaks — I would call them human excrement.