[quote=@Frizan] Could you possibly provide some examples? Something like a man telling another man that he was never raped/shouldn't report it, or a man outright saying that he didn't want to report his being raped out of fear of social exclusion or ridicule that would come from your idea of masculinity? Or even better, some scientific studies about the aforementioned issues. And please don't mistake this as some sort of passive-aggressive "Yeah, I know that you can't" jab at you, I'd really like to know. [/quote] It's always a hell of a time trying to squeeze the scientific information from the internet, what with the good stuff being behind paywalls and me not being in college anymore, but let's see what I can dig up. "Struckman-Johnson and Struckman-Johnson (1992) reported that approximately 18% of women and 22% of men believed that it is impossible to rape a man - regardless of perpetrator sex." That's nearly a quarter of men believing something rather blatantly crazy, and thereabouts 1 out of 5 people believing this. At least in 1992. [url=http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20070102/NEWS/701020314]Here is a more generalized article about the problem.[/url] [url=http://www.gq.com/long-form/male-military-rape]This article[/url], which involves a series of short interviews that includes this harrowing juxtaposition. [quote]James Asbrand Psychologist, Salt Lake City VA There's the fear that "if other people know this about me, well, then, my life is over. No one's gonna want to be around me. They'll know that I'm less of a man." -Neal One of the doctors said to me afterward, "Son, men don't get raped."[/quote] [url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22550150]"Results broadly conformed to predictions, with men generally more negative than women, and male rape myth acceptance significantly related to female rape myth acceptance, negative attitudes about gay men, gender role attitudes, and victim blame."[/url] [url=https://www.odh.ohio.gov/~/media/ODH/ASSETS/Files/hprr/sexual%20assult/appendix182011.ashx]Another good link provided by the Ohio Department of Health.[/url] I would keep doing this, but it is sort of a downer and this is a Saturday night. For anybody who doesn't want to look at all of that, the TL;DR is this - it is common for male rape victims to feel stigmatized as weak, or homosexual, and this stigma has had the effect of gumming up the works for men who do want to report, or as one doctor told a victim, "Son, men don't get raped."