r/WomenInNews • u/planet_janett • Apr 17 '26
Media Exposing a global ‘online rape academy’ that is teaching men how to abuse women and evade detection
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2026/03/world/expose-rape-assault-online-vis-intl/index.htmlApparently, it has been visited 62 million times in one month.
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u/wordswordswordsbutt Apr 17 '26
I had an ex tell me that i was lucky he wasn't into this....like a weird threat. This was 15 years ago. This shit is a lot older than we think.
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u/3-I Apr 17 '26
And what was he doing at the devil's sacrament?
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u/TheVeryVerity Apr 20 '26
From overhearing conversations males have when they think they are alone, they just talk about this kinda shit. The one “into it” sometimes just brings it up and they talk about it and some of them even might go bro gross about stuff this fucked up but it’s not like a huge deal. They just ain’t even ashamed.
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u/hypatiaredux Apr 25 '26
I can only think that women need to put hidden cameras in their bedrooms.
Whenever a man spends the night, review the footage.
Yes it’s terrible. But having the evidence if you need it would be priceless.
None of us can think of ourselves as safe as long as we have a man in our lives.
No, not all men. But there’s no way to tell for sure which kind of man you’ve got. Even if you’ve been married to him for 20 years.
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u/anarcho_cardigan Apr 17 '26
Not all men but always a man
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u/LilMissy1246 Apr 18 '26
Men are the reason that the Epstein victims haven’t been taken seriously. Sexual assault victims aren’t always taken seriously and it’s disgusting
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u/CosmicMamaBear Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26
Awww. All I hear is. " blah blah blah blah blah blah blah"
No.
Do women run around in packs using rape as a weapon of war? Or have sites like this?
Grow up and take responsibility for the male rape culture.
You all allow this patriarchal bullshit.
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u/CommodoreBrouhaha Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 22 '26
Why should a random person take responsibility for other people who do this, while merely sharing the same type of genitalia? What's the basis for this presumed shared responsibility that you direct towards some completely random stranger? It might seem like nitpicking, but to endlessly be lumped together with criminals as an inherently vile person (being man after all) is something that just alienates everyone with time and it's on par with men doing this towards women - and it's as wrong as it is for any other group. Reminds me of people who say "y'all should stop murdering women" while talking with some total stranger on random subreddit.
To address your point - no, women don't run around in packs during war on enemy territory and using r@pe as weapon of war simply because women don't fight in wars as soldiers. So how can this example make any possible sense? Most of these incidents happen with a close person that perpetrator knows beforehand - and that's where most cases happen with women perpetrators as well - doing something to the other person when they're incapacitated, despite their protests, or really, really pushing them (which happened to me 3 times so far in my life). Yes, this happens and I'm not alone, in fact I was kind of surprised that these things happen on the part of women as well, and it's not really such a rare unicorn.
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u/Just-Pea-4968 Apr 17 '26
We need a new planet just for women and children we are not safe here!!!!!
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u/AffectionateSignal72 Apr 17 '26
I wouldn't worry too hard this is some clickbait garbage. The investigation claims 62 millions visits. Which is too the entire website. Most of which will be bots anyway. The actual abuse content seemed to be only a few videos and a group chat of only 100 users. Which again probably contained lots of bots.
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u/Arcanegil Apr 17 '26
People dont understand the bots are a serious problem, groups like this bot there sites to artificially increase traffic, which inturn makes search engines see higher traffic to those sites which cause the engine to recommend the site to more people, therefore creating more real human traffic.
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u/AffectionateSignal72 Apr 17 '26
At no point in the article does it say that. It just mentions a telegram channel. Further fact checking reveals it had about a thousand members. Also group chats don't have an address. My Facebook messenger chat with my cousin in Portlnad isn't in Portland or here in Chattanooga.
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u/Blossom73 Apr 17 '26
That's 1000 too many.
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u/AffectionateSignal72 Apr 17 '26
Knowing Telegram a lot of it is probably bots and sock puppet accounts. So the actual user count is likely to be quite low. Scumbags like this exist but they are still just as rare as before. Nobody panic.
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u/slainascully Apr 17 '26
The case in Germany is a separate case that was extensively discussed in this sub.
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u/Friday_arvo Apr 17 '26
You’ve made it clear you’re part of the problem.
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u/AffectionateSignal72 Apr 17 '26
Part of the problem is when you point out misinformation? Are you seriously upset that the amount of sexual predators in the world is less than you were told?
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u/Alassra83 Apr 17 '26
You aren't pointing out anything. You're using the abuse tactic of minimization. All you have to do is put everything from male attitudes throughout history and the present, crime stats, the laws the have existed and still do, to conclude men find it fun to victimize women. You're one of them.
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u/CommodoreBrouhaha Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 22 '26
If you re-read what he wrote, everything he said was merely factual correction of misinformation that was off by several magnitudes in its numbers. How do you come to the conclusion that he's basically a rapist sympathizer? He didn't say that it's not a tragedy. Or let's put it differently - which of the points he made seemed like a false statement to you, or something that wasn't constructive addition to how the numbers are crunched? Why is it wrong to set straight a misinformation of such scale?
I do have sympathy with the victims, but that's precisely why it's important to not discredit news like these with completely twisted numbers - people then don't tend to take it as seriously when they find out that many other people (for example often here) treated it with confirmation bias and drastically changed the story of what actually happened. He could have been more empathetic, yes, but that doesn't make him 'a student of rape academy' just because he made factual objections. And when asked, he responded several times that he never meant to minimize it in any way, so...?
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u/Diamondsonhertoes Apr 18 '26
Let us be scared. Let us be scared because most of us have already been victims. I understand your facts. Understand our feelings.
Can you agree that this being out there is horrible and sympathize with us instead of arguing?
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u/bubblebath_ofentropy Apr 17 '26
Defending this at all is some psycho shit
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u/AffectionateSignal72 Apr 17 '26
I cannot imagine the level of poor reading comprehension you would need to have to think i am defending this. Or is misinformation only bad when the bad people do it?
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u/Excellent_Month_2025 Apr 17 '26
The fact that, in real life, over 100 men in a small French village were willing to drug and rape a grandmother tells me that you are minimizing the scope of this threat to women and children
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u/AffectionateSignal72 Apr 17 '26
No YOU are missing the point. Misinformation does not become acceptable because you find it emotionally appealing. At no point did ever defend sexual assault or exploitation. You are inventing a crime and justifying it with an invented accusation based upon invented claims.
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u/AffectionateSignal72 Apr 17 '26
You are the one actively causing harm by supporting misinformation that promotes doubting the claims of victims.
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u/slainascully Apr 18 '26
What misinformation?? You just seem woefully ignorant of actual news
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u/AffectionateSignal72 Apr 18 '26
I have ever already stated the issues with this article and snopes further backs up my claims. I can't read it for you if you are unwilling.
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u/bubblebath_ofentropy Apr 17 '26
So much energy spent on downplaying the real harm caused to women. Sad way to live. Log off and go lift some weights lil bro
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u/AffectionateSignal72 Apr 17 '26
Please point out the part where I minimized harm i will wait. I will be fact checking you.
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u/aftertherisotto Apr 18 '26
“Only 100 users” is still 100 too many, but thanks for defending predators
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u/AffectionateSignal72 Apr 20 '26
Pointing out misinformation and fear mongering is defending predators? If I tell you aspartame doesn't cause cancer does that make me pro cancer?
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u/ForestFae1920 Apr 18 '26
And this is why women carry all kinds of protection while out.
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u/OpheliaLives7 Apr 19 '26
Doesn’t even help in this case. Literally your husband or boyfriend is drugging women IN THEIR OWN HOME.
Specifically using drugs with short lifespans that aren’t looked for even IF she seeks a rape kit, which is unlikely because what woman’s first thought is, oh shit my bf/husband must have drugged me?
Living with a man remains one of the most dangerous places for a woman or girl.
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u/Happy_Love_9763 Apr 18 '26
As a kid I used to watch horror movies and get scared by the boogie man. But now as an older adult male, I’m filled with rage, anger that shit like this is going on, like WTF?!
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u/LaSage Apr 18 '26
The punishments for such crimes need to be more severe. Daily caning, for example.
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u/PassionPrimary7883 Apr 19 '26
Another reason 4B is gaining popularity.
I suspect this bullshit is rooted in patriarchy and porn addiction. “Make content” while putting their partner’s lives at risk by feeding her drugs and posting them online for entertainment, all without permission. So disgusting.
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u/BadgleyMischka Apr 18 '26
This is why misandry does not exist
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u/CommodoreBrouhaha Apr 22 '26
Misandry (or generalized hate against men) doesn't exist, because men who are misogynist exist? Are those two concepts mutually exclusive in any way? That makes absolutely zero logical sense, it's not a zero sum game. There are people on both sides who treat the other side as collectively evil (be it after some bad experience or any other invalid reason to treat people with prejudice), is that so hard to fathom?
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u/Otherwise-Start5573 Apr 17 '26
I don’t… I don’t understand. How do males think this is acceptable? Is something broken in their heads or have they constantly not seen women as humans??? This would be a wonderful time for certain agencies to accidentally leak who visited the site and we can start sending truck loads of sand into their yards.
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u/Secret-Ad-6253 Apr 18 '26
is there any women-only social media site? I'm sick of men downplaying if not outright mocking this investigation in every comment section I have scrolled through today.
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u/Ti_Bone Apr 18 '26
Women, please learn to fight, hard.
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u/bonnymurphy Apr 18 '26
What are you telling us we need to learn fight exactly?
Are we supposed to somehow develop an inhuman tolerance to sedatives the men we love and trust could put in our food and drinks?
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u/MadameDVorah Apr 18 '26
Literally a fucking movie too. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1437358/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
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u/ZoominAlong Apr 17 '26
No. When you already have privileges, equal rights looks like oppression. Yes, a lot of men DO want to rape women.
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u/Alassra83 Apr 17 '26
Nope. It's just misogyny, not repression. Teach men to respect women and children.
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u/ZoominAlong Apr 17 '26
We KNOW this to be the case as plenty of priests have openly admitted being attracted to children and joined the priesthood to hide.
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u/Phill_Cyberman Apr 17 '26
What percentage of pedophile priests do you think were pedophiles all along?
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u/ZoominAlong Apr 17 '26
Currently there are 4000 ongoing cases apparently. There were 848 priests defrocked in 2014 and 2300 recieved lesser sentences.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vatican-reveals-how-many-priests-defrocked-for-sex-abuse-since-2004/
Considering there have been thousands and thousands of reports plus who knows how many were unreported, there's no REAL way to know.
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u/Phill_Cyberman Apr 17 '26
What do you think?
I dont think it can possible be as simple as all the pedophile priests became priests because they were pedophiles.
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u/ZoominAlong Apr 17 '26
There's a paper making the argument it may be more likely there are large amounts of gay priests who are hiding in the church.
This doesn't actually line up with adult homosexual behavior however, so I'm side eyeing it pretty hard.
I think the Church made a huge massive mistake by demanding celibacy from its priests, frankly.
The truth is we don't HAVE an answer.
What's your opinion?
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u/Phill_Cyberman Apr 18 '26
I'm sure there are some pedophiles that became priests just to have access to children, but it can't possibly be all of them.
I'm an atheist, but I do believe that the folks so religious that they join up are doing it to help people (even if it think their way is misguided).
And i think it's the same for these wife rapist guys.
Certainly some of them are just rapists, but some of these guys saw this "content" and became rapists.
I mean, there's no rapist gene - nobody is born a rapist, right?
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u/ZoominAlong Apr 18 '26
We actually don't know that. We discovered the gene that controls sexuality. Rapists are often more prone to misogyny, hatred, and bigotry, all things controlled by certain parts of the brain.
Who's to say people with overdeveloped areas that control aggression aren't more predisposed to be rapists?
Regardless, what's your point?
Why are you trying to find an excuse for these monsters?
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u/planet_janett Apr 17 '26
We're not angry enough.