Male victims of sexual abuse by females
[39] often face social, political, and legal
double standards.
[40] Some cases in the United States have received increased attention and sparked awareness within the population. Sometimes referred to as "made to penetrate" cases (by the CDC and the NISVS), male rape victims are forced to engage in penetration of the female without proper consent. In many cases, the male victims are
under the influence of drugs or being held in life-threatening positions. The case of Cierra Ross'
[41] sexual assault of a man in Chicago gained national headlines and Ross was convicted of aggravated criminal sexual abuse and armed robbery with a bail set at $75,000. A similar case includes James Landrith, who was made to penetrate a female acquaintance in a hotel room while incapacitated from drinking, along with his rapist citing the fact that she was pregnant to advise him not to struggle, as this might hurt the baby.
[42][43]
In the UK, the 1970s
Mormon sex in chains case brought increased awareness of the possibility of female-on-male rape. A young
Mormon missionary named Kirk Anderson went missing in 1977, in
Ewell,
Surrey, after being abducted from the steps of a church
meetinghouse.
[44] A few days later, Anderson made a report to the police that he had been abducted and imprisoned against his will. He said that while he was chained to a bed, Joyce Bernann McKinney attempted to seduce him, and then raped him.
[45][46][47][48][49] News coverage was extensive, in part because the case was considered so anomalous, having involved the rape of a man by a woman.
[50] McKinney fled to the US, extradition was not pursued by Britain, and the English court sentenced McKinney
in absentia to a year in jail.
[51] Under the then-
Sexual Offences Act 1956, due to the victim's gender, technically no crime of rape was committed, though indecent assault of a man applied.
[52]
Some male victims, including
underage children, have been forced to pay child-support to their attacker when their statutory rapist conceives a baby as a result of the attack.
[53][54][55]
Several widely publicized cases of female-on-male
statutory rape in the United States involved school teachers engaging in sexual intercourse with their underage students. Each of the 50 states has laws regarding the
age of consent, but all have it set at 16, 17 or 18. These laws make any sexual encounters between adults and minors under the age of consent sexual assault (see
Mary Kay Letourneau and
Debra Lafave).