Trapped in trauma: Male victims confront sexual assault in military

Chris Engel 8/26/138:12 PM

"In May, the Pentagon released the results of an anonymous survey on sexual assault in the military. An estimated 26,000 active duty service members reported they had been sexually assaulted or harassed in 2012, up from 19,000 in 2010. The numbers lent credence to descriptions of military sexual assault as a "crisis" and an "epidemic."...

"Less widely publicized is that more than half of the victims in the recent survey — 53 percent — were men...."

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