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Suffering in silence

A recent report, Silenced Survivors, by SurvivorsUK found that almost half of gay and bisexual men have experienced sexual violence, and more than a third of those felt that they could not speak to anyone about it. It also revealed that 15 per cent had been blackmailed by someone threatening to share naked pictures of them, and 13 per cent had experienced sexual violence at a chemsex party.

Concerns about the prevalence of sexual violence by men against men are not new

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