retaliation; the survey also found that 47% of women and 20% of men did not report incidents because they had heard other victims had a negative experience after reporting. In a 2011, an alleged victim of sexual assault sued the sitting Secretary of Defense and the former Secretary of Defense in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. She was seeking money damages on the theory that their department had failed to protect her from her assailant. The Court dismissed the claim on grounds that without congressional invitation, the courts have little authority to intervene in military affairs because under Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, regulation of the military is the responsibility of Congress; Congress had not invited the courts to allow lawsuits against its armed forces, and so the lawsuit was dismissed. Those who were offended by the dismissal of the case criticized the court and claimed the decision had labeled sexual assault an "occupational hazard" in the armed forces. The decision of the court has no such language in it. Sexual assault cases continue to provide lucrative business for civilian lawyers who take advantage of the immense difficulty of securing a conviction for the hundreds of cases each year. Sexual assaults in the U.S. military have risen sharply over the past two years, mostly due to a 50% increase in assaults on women in uniform, according to a Pentagon study released on May 2019. The Military Sexual Assault Division's annual report estimates that there were 20,500 "unwanted sexual contacts" with her in fiscal 2018, based on surveys of men and women in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines. This is a 38% increase from the last survey in 2016. Sexual assault against men The Pentagon estimated that 26,000 service members experienced unwanted sexual contact in 2012, rising from 19,000 in 2010. Of those cases, the Pentagon says, most involved attacks on men, predominantly by other men. Recent statistics show that in terms of number of assaults, "the majority of the victims are men." It also states that although rare, women have previously aided men in sexually assaulting other women. According to statistics released by the Department of Defense, in the 2012 fiscal year more men were victims of sexual abuse than women. Turchik and Wilson found that, "one problem that may be unique for men is confusion concerning sexual identity, masculinity,