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Originally Posted by TERA  Good points, all.
But how do we know that the male libido has nothing to do with this, or that the prisoners themselves aren't looking for these sorts of relationships? Maybe some of them understand that with a sexual relationship comes privileges they would not otherwise have...not just sex, but other things, as well? |
Tera you can say the exact same thing on homosexual inmate sex. Look what one victim said:
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“I had no choice but to enter into a relationship with another inmate in my dorm in order to keep the rest of them off of me. In exchange for his protection from other inmates, I had to be with him sexually any time he demanded it. It was so humiliating, and I often cried silently at night in my bed … but dealing with one is better than having 10 or more men demanding sex from you at any given time.”
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http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/...,2240882.story
He understood that with a sexual relationship comes privileges (protection) he would not otherwise have.
Oh some interesting facts from above article:
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Research by the University of South Dakota's Cindy Struckman-Johnson found that 20% of prisoners reported being coerced or pressured into sex, and 10% said they were violently raped. In a 2007 survey by the U.S. Department of Justice, more than 60,000 inmates claimed to have been sexually victimized by other inmates during the previous 12 months. Given the stigma around admitting such harms, the true numbers are probably substantially higher.
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Interesting with the thread-starting study we know that there are only 344 cases reported. Talk about tip-of-the-iceberg.