Domestic Abuse Against
Men 
Real Men. Real Stories.
" I tried to call the cops but she wouldn't let me...she beat me up, punched me...She raped me with a dildo...I tried to fight her off but she was too strong...I was bleeding and she wouldn't let me go to the doctor's"
"She stabbed me with a knife, and I didn't even defend myself, and after I got out of the hospital two weeks later, the court tells me to go to a group they say is for victims. It turns out to be for batterers and I am expected to admit to being an abuser and talk about what I did to deserve getting stabbed."
"My daughter told the police'Daddy never hits; Mommy hits on Daddy.'"
(Brown, Dunning & Hines, 2007, p.72)
"Funny, at the time I told myself I deserved it."
(Menweb, 1998)
What is domestic violence against men?
Domestic abuse and violence against men and women have some similarities and difference. For men or women, domestic violence includes pushing, slapping, hitting, throwing objects, forcing or slamming a door or striking the other person with an object, or using a weapon. Domestic abuse can also be mental or emotional.
For some men, being called a coward, impotent or a failure can have a very different psychological impact than it would on a women. Unkind and cruel words hurt, but they can hurt in different ways and linger in different ways. In most cases, men are more deeply affected by emotional abuse than physical abuse.