“I just wanted
to run away,” another adds, “and get away from everything.”
According to
the 2014 National Crime Victimization Survey, 38% of rape victims are male. And
1 in 6 males are sexually assaulted before the age of 18.
“Sexual
violence does not discriminate against men,” activist and filmmaker Vanessa
McNeal says.
McNeal’s new
documentary The Voiceless examines the stigma that surrounds
male rape. In the film, five brave men share their accounts of being sexually
assaulted and how they coped with a situation that is still considered by
many to be taboo.
Some of the men
kept their feelings bottled up for years. Others ran away from home. And
some turned to violence and joined gangs. Despite their different
backgrounds and strategies for coping, all five share one thing in common:
None of them received justice for what was done to them.
“We live in a
society that continues to state that sexual violence can’t and won’t happen to
men,” McNeal says.
The Voiceless has just
begun making its rounds on college campuses and has already received a
strong response from viewers.
Watch the
promos for the film below.
https://vimeo.com/205298394
SOURCE: QUEERTY
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