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You'd be surprised actually. When studying the incidence of sexual violence in the last 12 months, the CDC's 2010 "National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey" study found that 5.3% of men and 6.5% of women were victims.

The CDC did a pretty terrible job of organizing and labeling their data, and the male numbers are skewed downwards because they don't have reliable statistics for the last 12 months for rape in which male victims were penetrated. It's true that the lifetime incidence of sexual violence is significantly higher for women, but talking about the average person today, rape is basically an equal-opportunity tragedy. Even leaving aside the problems with the study that bias male data downwards, making the claim that a type of crime is gendered should require a far greater disparity in the incidence per gender.

http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/nisvs_report2010-a...; pp 18-19