As a man who was sexually assaulted, the attitude towards male victims really needs to change. I (briefly) saw a therapist who couldn't seem to grasp how I could have been assaulted and more or less called me a liar when I've showed obvious signs of ptsd ever since. Then I've heard conversations from other guys about how if they were sexually assaulted they'd just "go with it" or would "love for that to happen" followed by laughter.

Partly I think this stems from the idea that men 'always want it'. Before being sexually assaulted, I had a pretty high sex drive. But it's not simply sex with someone you weren't into. It's someone taking away your right to choose. Taking away your humanity and treating you like a sex toy to use and throw away for their own pleasure. In my case it was a close friend, so it was the breaking of years of trust.

On the other hand, when I have spoken up about this I'll sometimes get some comment about how "yeah men have it worse" because no one will believe us, we apparently get blamed more often for drunken sex, etc. It's not a fucking contest.