Systematic male-on-male rape is pervasive across US military institutions

Evidence

Aaron Belkin, an expert on sexuality in the armed forces, was once told by a U.S. Naval Academy professor that male students at the academy rape each other “all of the time.” Belkin initially assumed she was speaking metaphorically, but the professor insisted, “I meant what I said.” Years of subsequent research by Belkin, at the Naval Academy and elsewhere in the armed forces, graphically confirmed the truth of that assertion. “Male American service members,” he writes, indeed “penetrated each other’s bodies ‘all of the time.’” — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 580

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Elite sexual abuse proved far more widespread than previously supposed — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1939; Military environments structurally enable sexual assault regardless of recruits’ innate nature — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 586; Military bases foster the specific conditions that enable rape across human societies (+5 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Elite sexual abuse proved far more widespread than previously supposed — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1939; Military environments structurally enable sexual assault regardless of recruits’ innate nature — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 586; Military bases foster the specific conditions that enable rape across human societies (+5 more)