From Deviance to Normalcy: Women as Sexual Aggressors

Arne Hoffmann, Tuesday, 17.08.2004, 14:43 (vor 7843 Tagen)

Hi,

hierüber bin ich gerade bei der Recherche zu einem ganz anderen Thema gestolpert:

From Deviance to Normalcy: Women as Sexual Aggressors
In: Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality, Volume 5, October 23, 2002
Online unter: http://www.ejhs.org/volume5/deviancetonormal.htm

Auszüge:

(...) Struckman-Johnson and Struckman-Johnson (1994) examined the prevalence of men pressured and forced into unwanted sexual activity. The authors reported that about one third of their sample of college men had experienced pressured or forced sex since the age of 16. In evaluating the most used tactics for the pressured or forced episodes, 88% of the pressured or forced subjects reported experiencing verbal persuasion, intoxication, emotional manipulation, and bribery, and 12% reported experiencing the use of physical restraint, physical intimidation, harm, or threat of harm. (...) Struckman-Johnson and Struckman-Johnson (1992) reported that approximately 18% of women and 22% of men believed that it is impossible to rape a man - regardless of perpetrator sex. The authors also reported that some subjects believed that men did not experience trauma due to a sexual assault by a woman (35% of men and 22% of women). (...) Struckman-Johnson (1988), reported that sixteen percent of male participants admitted being forced into unwanted heterosexual activity by a partner, but only 2% of female respondents reported forcing males into sexual activity in their lifetime.

Conclusion:
(...) Rates of sexually aggressive behaviors among women vary from one segment of the United States to another, but the evidence presented here shows that as many as 7% of women self-report the use of physical force to obtain sex, 40% self-report sexual coercion, and over 50% self-report initiating sexual contact with a man while his judgment was impaired by drugs or alcohol (Anderson, 1998). Given these numbers, it is appropriate to conclude that women's sexual aggression now represents a usual or typical pattern (i.e., has become normal), within the limits of the data reviewed in this paper.

Sieben Prozent der Frauen berichten von sich selbst (!), dass sie körperliche Gewalt angewendet haben, um Sex zu erlangen? Ich bin trotz allem immer noch verwundert, dass solche Ergebnisse nicht breiter diskutiert werden.

Herzliche Grüße

Arne