Gay forced videos

They had just the right tone – frank and realistic in their advice to stay safe yet respectful of the listener.

Samuel Hamilton, a former inmate at Fishkill Correctional Facility, who participated in the filming of the videos.

My first word after watching the final product: Powerful.

I was in prison for over 30 years, and very, very rarely did DOCCS ask us – the inmates – for help with solving a problem.

The rapist may forcibly stimulate a victim to the point of erection and ejaculation.

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If we don’t learn the necessary differences in approach to dealing with the issues, history will keep repeating.

But things are changing. And why not ask the people with hundreds of years of combined experience to come up with the solutions?

Because this was made by actual inmates, the new inmates are going to listen, I have no doubt of it. He was a paedophile; a child rapist.

Because there is a stigma attached to the label of gay, this stigma negatively affects how male victims believe others will treat them, thus impeding their recovery. Remind him that rape is an act of violence that has nothing to do with his sexuality. Because the data is quite robust and runs counter to assumptions, this phenomenon needs to be brought forward and addressed.

Both heteronormativity and misogyny constitute background conditions for violence against LGBTQ+ persons and women.

Impeding Recovery
Homophobia distorts how people see male-on-male rape and can impede the recovery of victims.

Alarmed and scared, I froze, unsure what to do. Inmates' brains have many different sections, like anyone else's.

It’s estimated that at least one in six boys worldwide experiences sexual abuse and, while I’m painfully aware that girls continue to be the gender principally affected by sexual violence (estimated at one in four worldwide), the abuse suffered by boys can fall under the radar and this pattern cannot continue.

Until we tackle homophobia in the UK and beyond, male-on male sexual violence will continue.

Then 11, playing out in the streets was the norm when I was growing up in Manchester. I'm concerned about homophobia and overzealousness that might unnecessarily patrol consensual relationships, which do take place in prisons. He was testing boundaries, but I was just an innocent kid.

About a year later, Frank showed me a pornographic magazine featuring older women.

I didn’t know how to tell anyone – and, crucially, I didn’t want to get into trouble.

While I viewed Frank as a friend back then, he was in his 50s and I was not yet a teenager. I didn’t tell my parents about these gifts and the fact I kept it secret shows something inside me knew it wasn’t right. And both the male and female versions, said Brenda Smith, a former PREA commissioner and an expert on prison rape, should have explicitly emphasized that there is no such thing as consensual sex between inmates and staff; that female staff can be as sexually abusive as male staff; and that sex between inmates can start out as consensual but turn into something more coercive.

The videos, these critics say, are an attempt to change the culture of the inmates, by helping them identify predators and by attempting to convince them that reporting sexual assault “is not snitching.” But such an approach may not make a dent in prison rape unless it is coupled with a more concrete effort, on the part of DOCCS, to hold itself accountable – by installing more cameras in facilities and by consistently punishing staff who take advantage of inmates.

Below, a further selection of the responses, both laudatory and skeptical, to these unusual videos.

Lara Stemple, Director, Health & Human Rights Law Project, UCLA School of Law.

(Stemple is the former executive director of Stop Prisoner Rape.)

The interviews with the inmates themselves, as opposed to a more artificial approach or one that simply recites policy, is a brilliant strategy. In the 80s, we had no computers or mobile phones, and scarce parental supervision.

For many, having free rein to explore their youthful freedom is seen as a positive.

If both the perpetrator and the victim of rape are gay, the victim feels added pressure not to report the incident or seek help because it may reinforce a negative stereotype about gay men being sexual predators. Because Frank’s actions hadn’t registered as abuse with me for years, I never reported him to police. Tell him his actions did not cause the attack.

While the women’s version acknowledges that guards can be predators, for example, the men’s version makes no mention of staff-on-inmate sexual violence, even though male inmates are more likely² to be sexually molested by staff than by fellow inmates. You know, even the loud, tough guys, the ones who might say this video is a joke, are coming in with fear.