How common is forced first time sexual contact among girls and women in the U.S., and what is the impact on reproductive, gynecological, and overall health of the victim? If you are like me, you are likely saying the same thing: It’s too common and the impact is horrific.set out to answer this question. The study captured the answers of 13, 310 American women 18-44 years old. 6.
The authors of the study are aware of the limitations of the data as well as acknowledge the numbers will be much higher if they asked women of all ages. Dr. Laura Hawks, the lead author of the study told, “You can imagine that if we asked this of women of all ages, the absolutely number would be many millions higher.” The study found that women who voluntarily had sex for the first time were 6 years older than women who were forced into sexual relationships.
The study also seems to assume that the attacker, described as an assailant or partner, was a man. While this is often the case, people need to remember that women can be assailants too. Nor should it be assumed that all people with vaginas are women. Transgender men and folks like me who have vaginas but identify as nonbinary are also at risk and experience high rates of sexual assault. I was sexually abused for 10 years by a woman.
That is not the fault of the victim and not a reflection of a faulty study. Rather, it’s a sad and disgusting truth of the rape culture we live in. The number of victims is more than we will ever know and until a massive shift happens in the way we talk about sex with our kids, particularly our cisgender males, this will not change. The most telling statistic in the study for me was this: 56% of those who took the survey said they were verbally pressured into having sex.
What a load of crap. Its disgusting that you post things like this to make women hate men. Its so obvious you have a certain agenda. Its sexist, ironically.
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