Hard call....
Big Johnson said:
....Why do so many women get raped and never tell anyone?
As I've been violated in some serious ways (never raped though), I can understand some of the emotions that go on.
When anyone violates you (sexual or otherwise), there are many issues.
1. Could you have prevented it (i.e., defended yourself)?
2. Could you have avoided it (i.e., should have known it was trouble and get out early)?
3. Could it be you encouraged it (i.e., flirted with danger and got burned)?
4. If you in any way enjoyed it, were you really violated?
Rape victims are scrutinized for good reason. In many places even today, a woman accusing a man of rape can ruin his life, and it is hell if it turns out to be a false accusation. I used to think nobody would lie about such a thing, but some women are psychos who will do anything to get even with a guy. Some women want attention even if it's the bad kind.
However, this scrutiny often results in a true rape victim being raped twice...once by the agressor, then again by the system. Most women would sooner cope with it than report it and deal with the problems that come of it.
Male rapes are even worse. It's not uncommon for a female victim to experience sexual arousal or pleasure in the rape....the body doesn't care, it's just responding to stimuli. That creates feelings of guilt and confusion as we still tend to think you can't enjoy something if it's not consentual. Well, with men, it's worse. A man's sexual arousal can't be hidden. If a man is raped, there are a considerable amount of cases where he gets aroused, and then in court, his "physical reaction" is used against him.
"Well, if you got a hard on when the defendant was going up your ass, you must have been consenting."
"Well, if you managed to get an erection so the lady could have relations with you, it was consentual."
What this does to a man is even more extreme than it seems to impact women, and so when a man is raped, he often won't even get counseling because he's ashamed to admit what happened. Likewise, he's in crisis over how he should interpret his reaction to the rape experience.
In any case, there's a lot of motives for why a rape victim doesn't report the crime.