Part I · History, law & policing
When a Man Reported Rape
What Konerak Sinthasomphone’s case reveals about the legal language, police assumptions, and institutional categories that made male victims easier to misread or erase.
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What About
the Boys?
A reporting project about boys and men who survived sexual violence, and the systems that often failed to name what happened to them.
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Part I · Male survivors series
Why this project exists
The record is full of moments when boys were classified as runaways, men were treated as willing participants, and same-sex violence was filtered through assumptions about homosexuality instead of consent. This site follows those records closely and publishes the evidence beside the reporting.
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