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Article: Sexual coercion: men victimized by women.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Men's Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 1998
- Author:
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A 12-item inventory designed to assess mild, moderate, and severe forms of sexual coercion was administered to an ethnically diverse sample of 182 college men at California State University, Long Beach. Results reveal that 70% of subjects reported experiencing some form of sexual coercion within the past five years. Mild and moderate forms of sexual coercion were most commonly experienced. Younger men were somewhat more likely than older men to report being sexually coerced. An ethnic difference in response was found on one item.
Along the spectrum of intergender tension, sexual coercion, which involves such unwanted sexual activities as kissing, petting, and oral, ...