General News Can boys be 'Coerced' into sex?

Of COURSE they can...

 

Some of them can...

 

Why would it matter what parts one has or what gender they are for someone to be coerced into sex?

 

It bothers me that the small amount of comments that article has seem to be dominated by the idea that 'coercion' has to have an element of threat.

Sometimes it baffles me that people don't understand how pressure works.

 

I was coerced at about age 12-13 by a very agressive girl from Laos of the same age, who didn't have any guilt about sex...it didn't take too much coercion, because I was young and curious, but I always thought of her brothers when we made out.

And there was no element of threat...if anything, I look back at it fondly, even if it was confusing at the time.

 

Actually thinking about it, it's made me question the difference between coercion and rape. Is there one?

I mean you have people like that complete dill-hole David Starkey who think that 'violence' is required for rape just because of it's latin routes. Plus you have people who think that coercion my be a factor but its ultimately something you CHOOSE to do (which is fucking cruel I might add).

 

Rape is rape. If you coerce someone into having sex when they don't want to, it's rape.
It's just as much rape as violent rape. Maybe not as shocking or horriffic, but still rape none the less.

 

Why can't boys be coerced? Girls can.

 

Any gender can be coerced into sex, just like any gender can be raped, but most people seem to think that both rape and coercion can only happen to girls which is sexist and a dangerous way of thinking. It's important for people to become more informed on both cases because it happens too often with people too ashamed and/or scared to do anything about it, and when it happens to a male, people think of it as a joke or fake, which is sick.

 

Uh yeah. My cousin did it to me when I was 9.

 

It's not just pressure either. While most people think of the word "rape," they think of a very violent, brutal attack. In my case, it was careful manipulation. He took advantage of the fact that I was too young to know what was going on.

 

Males can certainly be coerced into sex. I remember a very handsome young man of 22. At a party he was being hit on by a very unattractive woman who he didn't want any part of. After he had consumed a few drinks, she sat next to him on a couch. She began telling him how cute he was, nibbling on his ear, and reaching up under his shirt to rub his belly. He tried to pull away from her, but when she slid her hand under his shorts and started stroking his "Johnson" he caved in to her advances. The next day, he told me it was the worst sexual experience he ever had. He could not "perform the act" and said he felt like a sexual failure. This happens more often than we may think.