Male Victims 17 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes
Cases in which the victim of a sexual assault is a man or a boy, and the stigma that keeps many silent.
- Season 3 · Episode 10
Ridicule
An apparent accidental hanging leads to a male stripper’s rape complaint against the dead woman and two friends, and to the first test of a rewritten rape law.
- Season 5 · Episode 12
Brotherhood
A fraternity pledge master is found murdered at a sewage plant, and the case uncovers years of sadistic hazing inside his house.
- Season 8 · Episode 16
Philadelphia
Benson finds her half brother just as a New Jersey captain targets him as a rapist, while her distraction costs the squad a chance to catch two men raping men in Central Park.
- Season 13 · Episode 2
Personal Fouls
A former player’s accusation against a revered basketball coach runs into the statute of limitations, forcing SVU to seek help from a guarded pro star.
- Season 14 · Episode 12
Criminal Hatred
A man who targets closeted married men leaves one dead, and Barba tests the hate crime law against a gay defendant who is shielded by his own marriage.
- Season 15 · Episode 16
Gridiron Soldier
A Georgia football recruit lands in jail after attacking a man in a gay bar, and Rollins, who knows his family, suspects his would-be college team did something to him first.
- Season 17 · Episode 10
Catfishing Teacher
A missing 15-year-old seems to have run off with a teacher who has been sleeping with students, but SVU finds he was lured away by his wrestling coach.
- Season 20 · Episode 1
Man Up
A 15-year-old boy refuses to name the man who raped him after a family hunting trip, and the squad comes to suspect his own father.
- Season 20 · Episode 16
Facing Demons
A young man’s suicide leads SVU to the magic-shop clerk who abused him as a boy and who once coached Brian Cassidy in youth baseball.
- Season 22 · Episode 1
Guardians and Gladiators
After a white woman’s false 911 call gets a Black man arrested at the scene of a rape in Central Park, the squad faces a lawsuit, an IAB inquiry and a distrustful grand jury.
- Season 22 · Episode 15
What Can Happen In the Dark
Garland’s neighbor turns up badly hurt, and the squad comes to suspect his wife sexually assaulted him, a case few will believe.
- Season 23 · Episode 12
Tommy Baker's Hardest Fight
When a mixed martial arts star who meant to come out after his biggest fight is found assaulted, SVU looks past a staged hookup to the people closest to him.
- Season 24 · Episode 5
Breakwater
A young lifeguard accuses the chief of the Bronx lifeguards of rape, and when he drowns on duty the squad uncovers how the chief qualified his staff.
- Season 24 · Episode 14
Dutch Tears
A man Fin arrested as a teenager 23 years ago confronts him at gunpoint and demands justice for his rape in a city holding cell.
- Season 24 · Episode 22
All Pain Is One Malady
As SVU and Organized Crime close in on the revenge-for-hire site Shadowërk, a serial attacker unconnected to the site preys on strangers across the city.
- Season 25 · Episode 3
The Punch List
An escort reports that two men forced her at gunpoint to have sex with a drugged stranger, but the man, a married dermatologist, says he does not remember.
- Season 27 · Episode 15
Thirsty
A superfan accuses a 16-year-old ballet star of rape at his fan convention, but his mother’s murder and his own account turn the case around.
More themes: Crimes
- Blackmail & Extortion
- Child Abuse & Neglect
- Child Murders
- Child Sexual Abuse
- Con Artists
- Cults
- Date Rape & Consent
- Domestic Violence
- Gang Rape
- Grooming
- Gun Violence
- Hate Crimes
- Hostage Standoffs
- Human Trafficking
- Incest
- Kidnapping & Abduction
- Murder for Hire
- Online Predators
- Prison Rape
- Prostitution & Sex Work
- Serial Killers
- Serial Rapists
- Stalking & Voyeurism
- Statutory Rape
- Vigilantes & Revenge
- War Crimes