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- Title
Coercive Sexual Fantasies of College Men as Predictors of Self-Reported Likelihood to Rape and Overt Sexual Aggression.
- Authors
Greendlinger, Virginia; Byrne, Donn
- Abstract
In this study we explored the role of coercive sexual fantasies among men as predictors of hypothetical willingness to rape and self-reports of past sexual aggression. Men (N = 114) enrolled in undergraduate psychology courses were given questionnaires assessing sexual fantasies, acceptance of rape myths, and aggressive tendencies as well as measures of likelihood to commit rape and past history of coercive sexual behavior. Likelihood to rape was found to be correlated with reports of coercive sexual fantasies (r = .51, P < .001), rape myth acceptance (r = .21, P < .05), and aggressive tendencies (r = .21, P < .05), yielding a multiple R of .44 (P < .001). Past coercive sexual behavior was correlated with coercive sexual fantasies (r = .26, P < .05), aggressive tendencies (r = .22, P < .05), with their interaction (r = .39, P < .01), yielding a multiple R of .41 (P < .05). The two target variables, likelihood to rape and coercive sexual behavior, were not significantly associated with one another. These findings are discussed in terms of the role of sexual fantasy content as an hypothesized consequent of the content of external imagery to which the individual is exposed and as an hypothesized determinant of subsequent behavior.
- Subjects
SEXUAL fantasies; AGGRESSION (Psychology); RAPE; PSYCHOLOGY; HUMAN sexuality; SEXUAL psychology
- Publication
Journal of Sex Research, 1987, Vol 23, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0022-4499
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1080/00224498709551337