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show skin. They shouldn’t smile. They shouldn’t, they shouldn’t, they shouldn’t… It sounds ridiculous, but some traditional people, especially in Asia, do think like that. Men would say that they were provoked, and that the loss of control isn’t their fault: the women “were asking for it”. I mean why blame the victim? And what about male rape? According to a 2010 report by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, in the United States 1 in 5 women have been raped. This is in contrast to 1 in 71 men who have been raped in the US. Statistically, more women are raped, but are these figures really true? Men \