Stockholm rape clinic open doors to male victim

STOCKHOLM:
A Stockholm rape clinic  will  open its doors
in October to male and transgender victims
in addition to the women it already treats as
sexologist at the clinic said Wednesday;

"What's new is that the clinic will now be opens
to any person ,regardless of what gender they
are,needing help conerning  sexual abuse and
or rape"sexologist and project manager Karl
Norwald at the Sodersjukhuset hospital where
the clinic is located ,told AFP

He said he hoped the clinic's new policy would
help destigmatise male rape and encourage more
male victims to seek both physical and psycholoical
help.

"We hope and will work for all the major hospital
to treat sexual abuse regardless of gender-- men
and women should be treated equally ",said Suzanna
Boman ,a psychotherrapist at the Swedish Association
for Sexuality Education

The subject of male rape remains taboo in society
she lamented,It is very hard  for men to speak to
be  believed, In the past three  or four years RFSU
has helped provide treatment for around 40 male
victims of sexal abuse'

According to Boman and Norwald ,studies show
that men are more traumatised than women by
sexual abuse ,

That image has deep roots in our culture ,If you
are a man you are strong, a fighter and you can't
be raped",

But the fact that we begin to talk about it is one
way to kill the myth"she said,According to the
Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention
around 370 of the 6,700 victims of reported rape
in Sweden in 2014 were men or boys,

The organisation said the data was probably only
the tip of the iceberg ,estimating that only 10 to 20
percent of sexual assaults were actually reported
to police--
AFP