Today, we're asking you to be here for Male Survivor: National Organization Against
Male Sexual Victimization, so we can keep being here for male survivors.
Research within clinical populations consistently finds that girls are more often abused than boys, although research focused on the broader population of community youth has not shown such gender differences in rates of physical maltreatment.72 Female offenders typically are abused before their first offense.73 Among girls in the California juvenile justice system, 92 percent report some form of emotional, physical, or
sexual abuse.74 Self - reported
victimization rates among boys in the juvenile justice system are considerably lower, though boys may be more likely than girls to underreport certain forms of abuse.75 Some studies report abuse rates for
males between 25 percent and 31 percent, while others report rates of 10 percent for
sexual abuse and 47 percent for physical abuse.76 Closer comparison reveals that delinquent
males and females tend to report different types of traumas as well.