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submitted 1 hour ago by velma@sh.itjust.works to c/til@lemmy.world

Few studies survey men who have remained undetected after engaging in acts of sexual aggression against women. Most survey women who were targets of sexual aggression or else survey men who consent to being identified. Using anonymous surveys of 2,689 U.S. and Canadian men (18–34 years), we aimed to assess rates of self-reported sexual aggression, reports of strategy effectiveness at forcing known reluctant women into sex, and men’s views of the circumstances, motivations, and positive and negative outcomes.

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Overall, 95.1% reported having recently used at least one of the strategies to get a woman to have sex who they knew did not want sex and had not consented. Most of these occasions (65%) resulted in successfully forcing the woman into sex.

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For those working to prevent sexual aggression, our findings suggest men’s efforts to force women into sex are far more common than previously captured via self-reports and in fact help to resolve the discrepancy with women’s higher rates of reporting being forced into sex relative to men’s rates of forcing sex.

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[-] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 3 points 21 minutes ago

"Sexual force" and "young men" need some fairly large qualifications here.

  • the most.common "sexual force" was some variant of "sell yourself" or "ask again". No distinction was.made in the absract betwreen consent-respecting and consent-disregarding strategies, with all merely grouped as "sexual force"

  • The study is on college student aged men, who responded to an ask to 'tell men's side of the story", reported a hook-up in the past two years,, and either didnt clock the thin rewording of "tell me how you raped her" or continued regardless for the $10.

This is absolutely a worthwhile study and should be repeated and refined, but its not at all as described in that headline. If you want to distill it.down to a single sound bite, *65% of men claim they never employed rapey strategies" is more accurate.

(I mean, unless you consider.."ask a woman to help you connect with a date" or "sell yourself as a good hookup" rapey....)

[-] snooggums@piefed.world 2 points 13 minutes ago

No distinction was.made in the absract betwreen consent-respecting and consent-disregarding strategies, with all merely grouped as “sexual force”

Yeah, that doesn't sound like useful data at all. In fact, it sounds like it is intentionally framed for the overwhelming 95 1% outcome that paints all men as rapists.

[-] velma@sh.itjust.works 1 points 19 minutes ago

I used the title of the study for a reason.

I was pretty sure I would be criticized for it.

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