ABSTRACT
In general, it can be said that customary international humanitarian law does not discriminate on the ground of sex and that, therefore, the law relevant to sexual assault on women should apply with equal force to men. While the number of men who endured sexual assaults will probably never be established, their invisibility has to do with the role of the male body in the production of ethnicity, and with notions of masculinity and norms of (hetero)sexuality therein. It is however through black studies and (post-) colonial histories that the issues of race and ethnicity get their rightful place in the studies of masculinity and violence. Furthermore, in the Croatian press the homosexuality of Muslim men and the homosexuality of Serb men are defined as very different: the former are feminized through victimization, the latter demonized and pathologized through their perpetration of violence.
