The domestic abuse of men is a hidden side of domestic violence. Billboards, radios and TVs across the country claim that every fifteen seconds a women is beaten by a man, but has anyone ever asked how often men are beaten by their spouses? Battered men often become the topics for jokes, such as the cartoon image of a wife chasing her husband with a rolling pin. In 18th century France, husband who had been pushed around by their wives would be forced by the community to wear women's clothing and to ride a donkey through the town, sitting backwards and holding its tail. Men abuse is a rarely discussed phenomenon. Even us, who like to concern ourselves modern and liberated, have a hard time believing such thing can actually happen.

In 1993, a movie called "Men Don't Tell" finally collected people's attention upon the issue of men abusing...