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Rape In The Military Essay

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I was astonished to discover that men were getting rapped in the military. A person usually decides to serve his country because of a sense of unity and pride. I find it very disheartening that the pride and unity one felt being a U.S. soldier or sailor has been robbed from them, by someone with the same beliefs. The most important sentence in the article was,” One of the doctors said to me afterward, ‘ son, men don’t get raped’”(Penn). This is an extremely powerful sentence because it shows the misconception that is widely accepted in society about rape. Rape is generally associated with women being the victim, and the male being the aggressor. However, rape is not gender specific. There is an extremely negative connotation associated with

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