Citation

Peterson ZD, Janssen E, Heiman JR. J. Interpers. Violence 2010; 25(3): 538-556.

Affiliation

University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0886260509334414

PMID

19474034

Abstract

Perpetrating sexual coercion and rape can be conceptualized as a form of sexual risk taking. In this study, the authors evaluated the relationship between sexual aggression and other risky sexual behaviors (e.g., intercourse without a condom) using an online convenience sample of 1,240 heterosexual men. Sexually aggressive men engaged in more sexual risk taking (i.e., sex with multiple partners, unprotected sex, and one-night stands) than nonaggressive men, and almost half of the reported incidents of sexual aggression were unprotected (i.e., no condom was worn). Thus, sexual aggression was found to be part of a larger pattern of sexual risk taking. Regression analyses revealed that sexual aggression was associated with greater alcohol use and lower sexual inhibition-two variables that have consistently been found to be related to other forms of sexual risk taking.

Language: en