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Our source Ashley was a nurse in Camp Bucca, Iraq, and she saw the gut-wrenching consequences of this. "I think one month we had six males come out with traumatic injuries because of sexual assault." Male soldiers are primarily assaulted by other men, and the assaults they face tend to be more violent. "I feel like with the male assaults, there was a lot more anger ... there'd been instances in the past where somebody'd been hit in the back of the head by a sandbag and then raped. The males with sexual trauma had more aggressive-type injuries. I feel like a lot of the male rapes, from other male soldiers, were motivated by anger -- and maybe like a dominance factor."

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And holy shit, you think it's hard for a woman to come forward? At least society recognizes that female rape victims exist. You've probably noticed that none of our sources for this article were men. That's not by design. We tried to find male victims who'd talk to us, but couldn't. So let us try again: If you are a man who was sexually assaulted during your time in the military, then please reach out to us. Our culture's truly shitty attitudes toward sex have made rape one of the only crimes that make a victim feel the shame that should be felt by a perpetrator. But you're not weak, you weren't asking for it, and letting others know they're not alone can only help.

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And let's be frank here: If ISIS released a video depicting themselves sexually assaulting a captured American soldier, the nation would demand their entire hemisphere get nuked. So when the same thing happens at the hands of a fellow American soldier, the victims deserve better than "What did they expect?"

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