@article{ref1,
title="Female university students' preferences for different types of sexual relationships:  implications for gender-based violence prevention programs and policies",
journal="BMC women's health",
year="2020",
author="Ruiz-Eugenio, Laura and Racionero-Plaza, Sandra and Duque, Elena and Puigvert, Lidia",
volume="20",
number="1",
pages="e266-e266",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Gender-based violence among young women is a growing problem worldwide. The consequences of this victimization have been well reported in the scientific  literature, among which negative health outcomes stand out. The factors influencing  this problem are many; one highlighted by research is socialization into a dominant  coercive discourse that associates sexual-affective attraction to males with violent  attitudes and behaviors, while in turn, such discourse empties males with  egalitarian behaviors from sexual attractiveness. This coercive discourse may be  shaping the sexual preferences of female youth. The current paper explores young  women's preferences for different types of sexual relationships and, more  particularly, for what type of sexual affective relationships they coercively  preferred men with violent attitudes and behavior. <br><br>METHODS: A quantitative,  mixed-design vignette study was conducted with 191 college females in Spain. We  focused the analysis only on responses about vignettes including narratives of men  with violent attitudes and behaviors. In addition, we examined whether participants  would report higher coerced preferences for violent men when asked about the coerced  preferences of their female friends than when asked about their own preferences. <br><br>RESULTS: Only 28.95% of participants responded that their female friends would  prefer a young man with violent behavior for a stable relationship, meanwhile 58.42%  would do it for hooking up. When reporting about themselves, the difference was  greater: 28.42% would prefer a young man with violent behavior for hooking up and  just 5.78% for a stable relationship. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: The dominant coercive discourse  that links attractiveness to people with violent attitudes and behaviors may be  explaining the results obtained in this study. The findings can help eliminate the  stereotype largely adopted by some intervention and prevention programs which assume  that gender-based violence occurs mainly in stable relationships, considering that  falling in love is the reason that lead women to suffer from violence. Our results  can also support health professionals and others serving young women to enhance  their identification of gender violence victimization, as well as our findings point  to the need to include the evidence of gender violence in sporadic relationships in  prevention programs and campaigns addressed to young women.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1472-6874",
doi="10.1186/s12905-020-01131-1",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-020-01131-1"
}