Hearings - More than 10,000 men raped in military

Male rape outnumbers that of females

Experts see possible murder, suicide connection in figures

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Washington – While the incidence of rape of female members of the U.S. Armed Forces is the highest in the world, the little-known, underreported fact is that more than 10,000 men were raped while on active duty during the year 2010.

Those are the cases that victims reported. The truth is, the Pentagon estimates that about 62,941 men were brutalized through sexual means in acts of violence that can only be described as rape, though politically correct, legalistic terms preclude the use of the term.

Only about 17 percent of male rape victims reported their experience.

According to testimony before the Senate Armed Forces Subcommittee on Personnel presented on March 13 of this year, Brian Lewis, a third class petty officer in the U.S. Navy, was “told by a commander not to report it, and later was diagnosed with a personality disorder and discharged.”

The significant factor is that these figures were tabulated before the government lifted the ban on homosexuality, not after.

Knowledgeablepersons speculate that the trauma of homosexual rape, offenses thatwere by the very definition of don't ask, don't tell meant to be keptoff the official record, may lead to acts of suicide, exponentiallyhigher in recent years, and soldier on soldier violence. (click here for a previous report)

“Indeed,whether or not such outrageous male sexual assault estimates are10,700 or 62,941, these crimes would be traumatizing to their victimsand their colleagues, and could be a significant cause for themassive increase in military suicides – and revengeful violence. (click here to read a report published in Watchdog Wire.com)

“A Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP) report notes that, 'Historically the suicide rates have been lower in the military than those rates found in the general population,'” said Dr. Judith A Reisman, Ph.D., and Thomas R. Hampson, in a recent article.

Thereis a known causal connection between sexual trauma and suicide,according to numerous published reports. (click this link for a report)