14. When the rapist is a she

There is a case where "a man in Florida who is fighting child support payments" claims he was raped by his girlfriend 5 years ago. He says his girlfriend "climbed on top of him in the back seat of a car, held him down as he repeatedly said “no” and raped him" while he tried to escape. However, unlike what people think, "it’s physiologically possible for a woman to impregnate herself by raping a man," because "men’s physiological response can act independent of consent or desire." Women rapists drug men and take advantage of him, or blackmail him physically and/or psychologically, or physically impedes any act of refusal during the rape. It's also hard to exactly estimate the rates due "to cultural assumptions about male and female sexuality." Femate-male rape is also not taken seriously, which makes it more difficult to stop it. 

The question the author begins the article with is strongly related to the title, because the reader's response when they read it is exactly the question: "Can a man be raped by a woman?" She also writes citing various credible sources; a research in Psychiatric Times and organizations such as Men Can Stop Rape. There's a part when the author's writing goes uncommon: "Researchers have studied this very thing, in fact." She doesn't put the "in fact" in the start of the sentence, but in the end, making the reader distracted from the issue. For more than once, the author cites unimportant information when she writes "more than 86 percent of boys and men who survive sexual abuse were assaulted by another male." While the main issue in the article is the female-male rape, she puts an information unnecessary for the article's flow. Also, her use of vocabulary when she writes "survive sexual abuse" confuses the reader, for the reader doesn't know if she means that victims survive in a way of preserving life or stay psychologically unaffected. The irony present in the last part, when she cites a joke about female rape, shows that the writer is unconcerned with the issue. 

http://www.salon.com/2011/08/03/male_rape/