Sexual Violence: Male Problem / Male Solution?

Forever it seems, the voices speaking out against sexual violence against women and girls have been female: individual women, women’s groups and feminist discourse leading the way on a women’s issue. But is it time to change this and focus on the men who are, statistically, by far the most frequent perpetrators of sexual violence. How does masculine identity in the 21st century still allow such abuses? With violence perpetrated by male teenagers towards girlfriends and other women, there is a real danger of the problem getting worse, not better. For masculinity to move forward, how can solidarity be forged between men themselves and between men and women to address these far-too-common crimes?