One in Four Men Surveyed in Asian Study Say They Raped

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Almost one in four men surveyed in Asia said they committed rape at least once, in a study that may encourage renewed steps to prevent sexual violence.

Researchers interview more than 10,000 men at nine sites in Bangladesh, China, Cambodia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Sri Lanka in the first multi-country survey on the prevalence of rape, said Rachel Jewkes of South Africa’s Medical Research Council, one of the authors of the article published today in The Lancet Global Health journal.

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The men in the survey were questioned by trained male interviewers, and were left alone to record the answers to the most sensitive questions. The word “rape” wasn’t used. Men were asked indirect questions such as, “Have you ever forced a woman who was not your wife or girlfriend at the time to have sex?”

Previous studies focused on the female victims, Jewkes said; research on the male perpetrators had been limited to a study in South Africa.

The most common reason men gave for the violence was sexual entitlement, followed by entertainment and the wish to punish the woman. Rates for men raping men ranged from 1.5 percent of those surveyed in Indonesia to 7.7 percent in Papua New Guinea.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-10/one-in-four-men-surveyed-in-asian-study-say-they-raped.html

[Brickbat]

1. Sickening and heartbreaking.

[seabeyond]

2. then it is a good thing we have so much porn that is all about punishing women... degrading,

humiliating. to reinforce this "fantasy" of punishment.

why do men hate women so?

this is a question i have.

in hof, there was a poster that said many many men "fear" women. and i do not get that. i know the hate is really no more than fear. so the hate toward women by so many men would go along with what this male poster said.

men rape, murder, abuse women. men are entitled in life allowing their ego to continually be stroke while women must suck up the ego at all cost cause hers does not count.

yet it is hate toward women, not hate toward men that we see.

women after women that have been abused by man, raped by man, goes on with the hope of finding a "good" man. you just do not see the hate that is directed to women. and women are the ones you would think would be in the position to have this hate. as a whole, we do not.

but as a whole, men do. in media, in porn, in every day life, in street harassment, in work environment, in our fuckin' govt.... the hate toward women.

[CrispyQ]

3. My theory is that patriarchy originated from the fear/anger that

one cannot trace paternity without a doubt, but one can trace maternity without a doubt. Some days I think that's what it all boils down to. They are pissed off cuz they can't know for certain if the kid is theirs. Which leads to they can't know if "their" woman isn't fooling around on them. Which leads to a need to control & that always leads to objectification, oppression & inhumanity.

I have a solution, too, but it's pretty radical. Got it from an Isaac Asimov story. We discussed it once.

[Yo_Mama]

4. A disturbing article in a lot of ways

One in 10 men said they had raped a woman who wasn’t their partner, the researchers found. When partners were included, the figure rose to 24 percent.

60% of the men in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea said they had raped someone?