How Violence against Women Affect Male Victim Services Abstract Gender-based violence has increased tremendously. Traditionally, the global community believed that the gender-based violence victims were mainly women. This meant that the perpetrators were men. However, this traditional argument is misleading since men are too subjected to this abuse. The global community is highly a patriarch society; this fact is the fundamental foundation of the argument that men are not subjected to gender violence. The research establishes how gender-based violence against women affects male victim services. Few men suffer from the gender-based violence, and they rarely report their cases. As a consequence, men are the minority in gender violence. Introduction According to the United Nations (2014), "gender-based violence refers to an act of violence that results in or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to individuals." Conventionally, this kind of violence is viewed to affect only women. However, in the recent past reports on gender-based violence against men has been growing increasingly. There are several kinds of crimes that fall under gender violence. However, rape and sexual harassment or assault leads the pack since they are more distressing than the rest; their effects are long term in nature. The research question under this study relates to how violence against women affects male victim services. To establish these impacts, it is important to comprehend the gender-based violence against women. The reason for this emphasis is that women are seen as the victims of the ferocity. However, there are gender cruelties against men, but men find it difficult to deal with. To address the thesis question, one would need to answer the following research questions. 1. Why is gender-based violence against women given more emphasis? 2. What are the support systems that help women to deal with gender violence against men? 3. Do these support systems exist in the case of gender-based violence against the male? 4. What are the strengths of these systems? The essence of this study is that the reports of violence against men are increasing day by day. As a consequence, proper mechanisms need to be set in place to help the men. In existence of appropriate support systems