One in 10 Young People Have Committed Sexual Violence

[redqueen]

und that nearly one in 10 youths self-reported that they had been a perpetrator of sexual violence in their lifetime. Researchers collected data from 1058 youths, 14 to 21. The data was collected online in 2010 and 2011 and recruitment of participants was balanced based on youths’ biological sex and age.

The results are stunning: 8% of participants reported they had kissed, touched or "made someone else do something sexual" when they "knew the person did not want to." Disturbingly, 32% argued or pressured another person into sex; 63% guilted them into it; 5% of the perpetrators threatened physical force; and 8% actually used it.

Male adolescents were found to begin perpetrating acts of sexual violence at younger ages than their female peers (98% of study participants who reported perpetrating sexual violence prior to age 15 were male), but by age 18 or 19 both sexes were almost equally represented as perpetrators: 52% were male and 48% were female. However, males were found to be more likely to coerce or force others into sex (i.e. commit rape) than their female peers. Of the 1participants, 10 adolescent females and 39 adolescent males admitted to attempting to or completing rape. 80% of the victims were girls, 18% were boys, and 5% were transgender. In every case the perpetrator knew the victim and 3 out of 4 (or 75%) explicitly targeted a boyfriend or a girlfriend.

Additionally, only 11% of those who were caught "got in trouble with their parents." In 66% of the cases "no one found out" about the incident and, thus, no punishment was served. And, the lack of punishment had consequences on the perpetrators’ view of where responsibility for the incident laid: 50% of the perpetrators believed the victim of the assault was "completely" responsible for what occurred.

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http://www.policymic.com/articles/67059/one-in-10-young-people-have-committed-sexual-violence

Interestingly the article mentions the correlation of the timing of these surveys with abstinence-only education.

[ismnotwasm]

1. But the is no rape culture dammit!

[seabeyond]

2. i have said for a very long time, it is not merely the sociopath. but people need a monster.

not the monster but the boy next door. that has been taught sex is his right and coercion is part of getting what he wants because of male privilege. if we were truly honest with ourselves, we know this would admit this and start talking about it out loud. for whatever reason, and i am not sure what it is, so many of us are pretending to live in a falsehood.

[Prophet 451]

3. That's.... disturbing

And beyond that, I'm not sure what I could say that isn't insultingly obvious.

[raccoon]

4. Sickening but not surprising. nt