In 2010, the CDC conducted a survey which revealed that forty percent of the victims of severe, physical domestic violence were men. Forty percent is just shy of being an equal split amongst victim gender in domestic violence and yet that figure probably seems untrue to most people. Many might even scoff the idea that there are that many cases with a male as the victim. What we have come to accept is that only, if not mainly, women can be and are the victims of domestic violence. This normality has left us with s skewed viewpoint that is almost as unacceptable as domestic violence itself. What we should be asking ourselves is why we are so quick to dismiss the idea that men are the victims of domestic violence almost as much as women? The world has cultivated a biased view of domestic violence against men due to a lack of research into male victims and female-identified perpetrators, a lack of male victims who speak out and female biased legislation making. Due to the swayed view of which gender is prominent in instigating Domestic violence or Intimate Partner Violence, IPV, more money is spent funding groups for support for women rather than men. Since 1920, all states have made the act of “wife beating” illegal and even though it wasn’t until the early 1970’s that it was considered to be a legitimate chargeable crime, the initial bias of the issue still stands; domestic abuse and violence is a male-on-female crime. As such, there is a plethora of resources available for finding support groups, advocacy groups, statistics and research and programs that are based around female victims. It becomes difficult to find figures related to male support groups and the amount of funding spent to help male IPV victims due to the lack of research that is spent on male victims. Just as lacking is the research into female perpetrators. “In recent years researchers have approached populations without preconceptions as to the direction of