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I'm a bit wary of the 2011 stat for male victims with male perpetrators. Not that I don't believe women make up a significant number of abusers, nor that it should be ignored, but the idea that men on men assault is that low seems out of place with other factors, like child abuse cases, prison/military cases, same sex couples/assault, or even medical facility cases. If we take the 40% of rapists are women, and the remaining 60% are men, I honestly can't imagine that only a fraction of those men hurt other men. Enough to out weight female perpetrators? I don't think so, at least not from any statistics I'm seeing (most recent I found was about 12% for male child abuse victims specifically, which is still quite "low" since that would leave the remaining 88% perpetrators as female(or other?) Not to mention men are less likely to report rape, let alone penatrative rape (thanks society). I don't know if there's any number that would make me go "Oh, it's not that bad," but I don't think men on men violence is as uncommon.
But numbers are numbers. Probably just my own bias trying to work around it ๐คท๐ฟโโ๏ธ
Yeah, honestly I felt the same way when I first looked at the numbers, but they seem to be confirmed in the CDC 2015 and 2017 studies as well. I even tried to find independent numbers of, for example, male on male sexual assault in prisons to make sure I wasn't accidentally excluding relevant data.
It's also worth mentioning that, as flicker said, it's impossible to know the huge amount of male- and female-perpetrated and male- and female-victim cases that go unreported each year, which would certainly result in significantly different numbers, though it's impossible to know exactly how they'd be affected.