| This study measured use of physical coercion and other sexual coercion by a sample of 837 students at two universities, using the Sexual Coercion Scales of the revised Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS2). The four Physical Coercion scale items measure use of physical force and threat of force to coerce sexual acts. The percent who reported committing each of the four physical coercion and each of three non-physical coercive acts in the scale will be presented,- and also the percent who engaged in one or more of the Physical Coercion acts, one or more of the Other Sexual Coercion acts, and percent reporting any sexually coercive act. The results of testing the hypothesis that non-sexual physical assaults are correlated with both physical and other sexual coercion will be presented. The following types of offenders will be distinguished: 1. Non-sexual physical assault only. 2. Sexual coercion only. 3. Both non-sexual physical assault and sexual coercion. The characteristics of each of these types of offenders will be presented and also compared with non-offendors. The implications of the findings for theories of rape will be discussed. |
Updated 05/20/2006