India needs to amend many of its biased laws to gender neutral laws as they prevent the access to justice for one gender or the other. In this post I shall keep updating whatever laws I find to be biased in terms of gender.
Rape Laws
Rape law is the worst law across the world especially in India. Under section 375 and 376 of Indian Penal Code, ONLY men can be convicted of rape, and ONLY women can be the victims. Even laws related to voyeurism and sexual harassment are similarly gendered, e.i. ONLY men can be the perpetrator and ONLY women can be the victims.
While some might say that men are protected against rape by other men because coercive man on man sexual intercourse is covered under Section 377 of the IPC. It just means male on male rape is clubbed with voluntary sexual intercourse between homosexuals.
There is a minimum punishment of 7 years for raping a women, when a minimum punishment is prescribed, it is assumed that the crime is heinous. But there is no such punishment in case of male on male rape. Far from being considered as heinous, it is not even recognized as rape in India.
In the Criminal Law (Amendment) Ordinance, 2013, the crimes of rape and sexual harassment were gender neutral. The term “rape” was removed entirely and was substituted with “sexual assault”. Cabinet was considering a proposal to amend and make a rape law gender neutral and feminists opposed it!!! (PTI, 2013; Reddy, 2013). The act ended up making the offences of rape and sexual harassment gender specific. Women can no longer rape or even sexually harass men.
You may wonder why the feminist are against this change if no females have done wrong. They should have welcomed this proposal but the reality is quite different. There have been many cases where a female has forced men in physical relation. But these incidents do not get highlighted as men have never been seen as victims though they have been suffering and sacrificing since the onset of humanity and the feminist have always turned a blind eye to this fact (Ever heard of a female sacrificing life to save males?? or in case of calamity during rescue operation females saying let the children and men go first?? NO, it’s always the other way round).
The amendment of the rape law was also opposed for their ulterior motives of not allowing such incidents to come to light and letting the power of accusing any one of rape with their own free will and get scot free even if the court realizes that the accusations made were false. All this could change if the laws become gender neutral and the victimized males start coming forward knowing their voice will be heard and not laughed at as happened in case of Santosh Kumar in Satyamev Jayte.
The perception that male rape is not real is fueled by myths like these :-
– Men cannot be raped- “Real” men can defend themselves against rape- Men are not affected by rape (or not as much as women)- A woman cannot sexually assault a man- Male rape only happens in prisons
Views against including men in rape
1- It is physically impossible for women to rape a man.
It is often assumed that man are stronger then women and so women can never force a man. Even if a women overpowers a man or threatens the man with a weapon, a man’s erection implies consent. This argument is wrong because an erection can be caused by various factors which include anxiety, fear and humiliation. Not to mention arousal does not imply consent.
2- Male rape is very rare and rape is at its core a gendered issue.
More than 50% victims of sexual abuse done to children are boys, no such data about adult men is provided by the government but it can help us understand that rape and sexual abuse is not gendered. Rape of adult men is not even considered rape by the government.
3- A gender neutral law will have negative consequences for female victims.
Allowing men to file rape cases against women will result in false accusation of rape against female rape victims. But arguing that the law can be misused is no argument to not pass one at all. Every law can be misused, section 375 has been used to file false rape cases for men for years but no arguments to remove the law have been made. While it is true that female victims of rape outnumber male victims, this is not a reason to deny male victims their justice.
4- Men and women experience sexual assault differently.
Women who are raped face social stigma which includes society telling them its their own fault, questioning the character of the women, no one will be willing to marry her, women also take a larger emotional toll. Thus rape affects women more then men.
This argument concludes women have it worse without even comparing women’s experience to that of men. Men are told that what they experienced was not even rape, men often start blaming themselves and never share their experiences, those who do are told they are weak, told they are not “real men” and that a real man would have been able to protect themselves. In the rare event a man manages to gather enough courage to file a police complaint the policemen do not miss the opportunity to mock and harass him. The complaint is not even filed in most cases. Thus the trauma relating to rape and sexual assault in men is very comparable to that of women.
I firmly believe rape laws need to be made gender neutral urgently.
To give an example of how much the rights of a male rape victim are ignored is the case of 15 year old boy who was raped by a 34 year old woman but now faces child support in Nebraska. Jeremy Steen Lincoln was seduced and raped repeatedly by his 34-year-old baby sitter Linda Kazinsky http://livewirereview.com/pay-child-support/?utm_source=taboola
Following are some studies and cases highlighting the urgent need for rape laws amendment for protecting the males raped by women
http://docs.manupatra.in/newsline/articles/Upload/3FE150D0-E784-49BD-8328-4134C0E87955.pdf
https://ccsinternship.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/286_case-for-gender-neutral-rape-laws-in-india_jaai-vipra.pdf
In Zimbabwe three women were found to be raping men in their vehicle in the pretext of giving them lift. Once in the vehicle the victims were drugged or intimidated by gun or even snake to have intercourse with the women continually, sometimes unprotected too. Once the women were satisfied the victim was dumped on the road side. – http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-03-25/rest-of-world/31236382_1_men-fear-zimbabwe-sisters
Women who are serial rapist are also not rare one such group was caught in Zimbabwe for raping 17 Men. Some women not only rape men but have also started to cash their victim by selling their sperms for as high as $ 14000. The victims are drugged, subdued at gun or knife point – even with a live snake in one case – given a sexual stimulant and forced into repeated sex, before being dumped on the roadside. The sperm hunters first surfaced in the local press in 2009, but police have only arrested three women. http://www.myzimbabwe.co.zw/news/1156-women-rape-men-in-zimbabwe-at-gun-point-then-sell-their-sperms-in-nigeria-and-ghana-for-us14000-per-condom.html
Cierra Ross from suburban Chicago forced a man him to have sex with her friend in the backseat of a car after offering him a ride. The victim was walking in the 400 block of North Kingsbury when Miss Ross pulled up next to him and offered him a lift home. A short time later, she allegedly pulled a revolver on him, ordering him to climb into the backseat and take off his clothes. Ross then forced the 33-year-old at gunpoint to have sex with her friend. The two female also allegedly robbed their victim, getting away with $200 in cash, credit cards and an iPhone. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2414136/Cierra-Ross-25-accused-forcing-man-gunpoint-sex-friend.html Do note that the article says that the woman who actually raped the man on back seat has not been charged with rape!! Would this happen if the genders in this case were reversed? How can a Raped Man get justice?
Sexual abuse of boys and men rape is emerging as one of the most under-reported weapons of war.
Girlfriend tied her boyfriend to the bed had forced sex with him later poured petrol on his body and set him on fire. https://maharashtratimes.com/india-news/woman-tied-his-lover-to-cot-after-sex-and-sets-him-afire-in-andhra-pradesh/articleshow/65194698.cms
Man ‘raped’ by a gang of girls, claims perpetrators shot MMS Dehradun (Uttarakhand): Women it seems have turned the table on men, yet again. A man from Dehradun has alleged that a gang of girls abducted, forcefully had sex with him and filmed the act. He also claims he was threatened with dire consequences if he went to the police.
Woman held for raping a man in Stockholm. The woman first invited him for a midnight snack and raped him.
https://www.thelocal.se/20080527/12046
Woman held for raping her minor cousin. Now the Mahila Ayog and feminists gang will pressurise the govt to withdraw the case against the woman and make the boy accused.
In a shameful incident of sexual harassment of children, 23-year-old woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur district has been booked on charges of allegedly raping a a 16-year-old minor boy, police.
40% of rapists are women. RAPE, incorrectly described as something a man does to a woman, it is unlikely for a man to be the victim of rape or a woman to be a rapist by this definition. Rape is not a crime that men commit upon women. It is a crime that people commit to other people.
A man was raped in a police station; no outrage no news; who cares for men? Policemen first hang the man upside down, then rub pepper on his private part, they did not stop here, they sprinkled petrol on a rod and put it in his private part.
Over 72,000 men found to be raped in the UK every year. Imagine the scale of Male Rape in India that has no law to protect raped men.
Sweden to open a rape clinic for male victims. A clinic focused on men would “contribute to the awareness of experiences of sexual abuse among men”. We do hope our government will soon realise the need for such support for Indian male victims. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33187011
40% of rapists are Women. RAPE, wrongly defined as something that a man does to a woman, under this definition it is impossible for a man to be the victim of rape or a woman to be a rapist. Rape is not a crime that men commit upon women. It is a crime that people commit upon other people. https://poisonedwell.wordpress.com/2013/10/19/40-of-rapists-are-women/
Man was raped in police station; no outrage no news; who cares for men? Policemen first hang the man upside down, then rub pepper on his private part, they did not stop here, they sprinkled petrol on a rod and put it in his private part. https://navbharattimes.indiatimes.com/state/madhya-pradesh/bhopal/indore/cops-sodomize-a-suspected-goat-thief-rub-chilli-on-his-private-parts/articleshow/44868913.cms
Such type of cases are not limited to western world but also found in a country like Pakistan as reported by Daily times, where three women asked a waiter Khalil aged 23 to come to their home to deliver the food. Once he went there he was given milk laced with drug which made him unconscious, on regaining consciousness he found himself stripped and was assaulted by the women for next four days and then they threw him near a river with his genitals bleeding. He somehow reached hospital with help of a passerby. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\02\02\story_2-2-2009_pg7_24
Indian females are not far behind in their quest to molest males. As in case of a Montessiri teacher who raped her students as young as 12 years. She not just raped the student but also forced to continue the relationship as per her needs. Her first victim went on to become a city cop and tried to free himself from her psychological control, but she unleashed a vindictive plot to ruin his career, making false claims to his NYPD superiors and filing false claims against him with the Civil Complaint Review Board. But luckily the court could see through her claims and found her guilty. – http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/montessori-headmistress-lina-sinha-finally-jail-years-conviction-sex-student-article-1.1120493
Lina is not a rare case of teacher who was taking advantage of children whom she was supposed to take care, you would be unpleasantly surprised that there are hundreds of such cases where parents never suspected that a female teacher could be abusing their children while the child suffered.
Another Indian lady Shahida aged 40 in Paravoor exploited 11 year old boy who used to bring vegetables and fruits to the house of Shahida. She locked the boy inside her room and allegedly undressed him. Later, she forcefully engaged him in sexual activities – http://newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/article1408161.ece
Angelina Jolie lookalike ‘stabbed taxi driver’ for refusing sex a third time – http://www.news.com.au/world/angelina-jolie-lookalike-stabbed-taxi-driver-for-refusing-sex-a-third-time/story-fndir2ev-1226459707047 , http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2194240/Angelina-Jolie-lookalike-stabs-taxi-driver-refusing-sex-her.html
Another Indian lady Reshmi Dipnarine, 21 years old and living in Freeport, is charged with twice raping a 17-year-old boy. She had sexual intercourse with a teenager without his consent at Teak Avenue, Claxton Bay http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/Woman-charged–with-raping-teen–218931441.html
It’s not that the females who are in their 20s or older making such sexual assault. Even girls in adolescence age around 13 have been known to carry out such type of assault on boys. As in case of an autistic boy aged 12, He was returning home when two girls aged 13 and 14 forcibly took him to a under construction house. There he was stripped naked and sexually assaulted. The victim somehow managed to escape and alert a nearby resident who called his mother to take him home. The two girls have been charged. http://www.news.com.au/national/teenage-girls-charged-with-torturing-autistic-boy-12/story-fndo4ckr-1226431414946
Another similar incident of teens indulging in exploiting a helpless man was carried out by Yasmine and Whitney Notice sisters. They enticed a 22-year-old man with learning difficulties to their Birmingham flat before subjecting him to a degrading sexual assault, they threatened him with a replica handgun and forced him to strip demanding he performed sex acts. Birmingham Crown Court jailed Yasmin, 19, for seven years, two months and Whitney, was jailed for five years four months. – http://www.itv.com/news/central/story/2012-11-14/sisters-sexually-abuse-man
10-year-old girl accused of raping 4-year old boy http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130827/news-current-affairs/article/10-year-old-girl-accused-raping-4-year-old-boy
Even Oprah show had an episode on male rape victims. They are not as rare as people think. http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/1ibrje/oprah_tyler_perry_male_rape_victims/ … http://1in6.org
Indian law doesn’t recognize rape of men, Even police can’t help such victim the FIR is not lodged for sodomy http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Man-abducts-strips-Delhi-University-boy/articleshow/20075797.cms
Such type of females not just exploit males but also force them into prostitution and suppressing mens right in every form, as in case of Nikki Fawcett, age 24, from Fort Dodge, who was convicted of interstate transportation with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity. http://ncfm.org/2012/07/news/humantrafficking/three-persons-plead-guilty-in-child-sexual-exploitation-and-interstate-prostitution-case/ Females not only get engaged in exploiting males but they also are part of female child prostitution rackets as well, but the blame always go to the males while they stay out of the spotlight as meek sufferers.
Take a look at Unreported horrors of male rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo – They are men who have lost all http://www.articlesaboutmen.com/2011/11/unreported-horrors-male-rape-in-the-democratic-republic-of-congo-911/4015/
People need to be educated and informed that men are also getting raped by women and the fact that man’s erection is involuntary should be highlighted as this has been proved to be the greatest stumbling block for the victims to get justice. The rapist women are exploiting involuntary erection of men to satisfy their lust. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_by_gender#Non-statutory_female-on-male_rape The rapist women also get help from femmenazi who purposely do not accept the fact of involuntary erection in men and claim that men cannot be raped as they won’t get erection till they are aroused and willing to have intercourse. Goverments should promote more research on male harassment like the book Archives of sexual behavior in which eleven cases of male sexual molestation by females are classified and described. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF01541979 Men should not suffer silently in fear of getting ridiculed by the myth that men enjoy forced sex hence it is not rape. This point has been well conveyed in the video on you tube called Why Rape Is Sincerely Hilarious http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikd0ZYQoDko and a sensible adds to the point by accepting in other video that victim of rape should be treated irrespective of their gender as its traumatic to anyone it happens to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEIb-CBVkWk
I have highlighted another biased law of Domestic violence in my post in which only men are considered to be guilty whereas the reality is different
One of the worst laws is that of adultery where only man is convicted for adultery whereas women are kept free to commit more, considering them to be victim this is gross neglect of men’s rights
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