It is not recognised as rape under the law. In fact, the law on rape is defined in such a way that only men are recognised as principal offenders. Though there have been a handful of women convicted of rape , they have been convicted as accomplices, not principals. It is an under-reported crime that some may not even be aware happens. In the US, a study of 16, adults in found that approximately one in 21 men 4. There are no statistics about this sexual offence in the UK.

This article presents the first quantitative and qualitative research findings regarding such cases in the UK, exploring aggressive strategies used by women, as reported by men who experienced them. Novel evidence is presented of women combining multiple strategies within the same incident. The findings presented here raise questions for criminal justice professionals working in the area of sexual violence, as well as highlighting the need for future research. Existing research highlights that sexual aggression and violence are overwhelmingly and disproportionately perpetrated by men against women, resulting in, understandably and quite correctly, a large body of research considering male sexual aggression.

When a man has penetrative sex with a woman without her consent, that's rape. But what if a woman makes a man have penetrative sex with her, without his consent? That's not rape under the law of England and Wales, but the author of a new study of the phenomenon says perhaps it should be. Dr Siobhan Weare of Lancaster University Law School carried out the first research into forced penetration in the UK in , gathering information from more than men via an online survey.

Three men kept her captive before advertising her as an year-old on an escort site. Three men who plied a year-old girl with drugs, held her captive and forced her to have sex with at least 20 men during a terrifying five-day ordeal are facing jail. Jake Cairns, Brandon Sharples and Jack McInally, all from Coventry, were found guilty of facilitating the sexual exploitation of a child after advertising the teen as an year-old on an escort site. During the ordeal, the victim was forced into prostitution before West Midlands Police rescued her on June 13,