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MADem

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1. This was Rhonda Cornum's response to the right-wing screeching after she was returned from POW

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Tue Jun 25, 2013, 08:14 AM

Jun 2013

status, that rape happens to men, too.

This whole article is REALLY worth a (re)- read. Note the DATE!! We've been talking about this shit for decades--you'd think we'd get a little attitudinal consensus eventually....!

But other experts on P.O.W.'s and on military personnel say the disclosure illustrates much larger issues: that rape and sexual abuse are two of the many forms of mistreatment suffered by prisoners of war, and that men as well as women are at risk. There is a need to raise the consciousness of American troops of both sexes about sexual abuse in the military in general, the experts say, not just in the extremely unlikely case that they are taken prisoner.

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/29/us/female-pow-is-abused-kindling-debate.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

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