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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Perpetrators’ Personality Characteristics, Attitudes, and Experiences
Several studies that compared the characteristics of men who had committed sexual assault with those who had not noted the following differences (Seto and Barbaree 1997):

With respect to personality traits, men who had committed sexual assault were more hostile toward women and lower in empathy compared with other men.

With respect to attitudes, men who had committed sexual assault were more likely than other men to endorse traditional stereotypes about gender roles—for example, that men are responsible for initiating sex and women are responsible for setting the limits.

Perpetrators of sexual assault also were more likely to endorse statements that have been used to justify rape—for example, “women say ‘no’ when they mean ‘yes’” and “women enjoy forced sex.”

Finally, men who had committed sexual assaults were more likely to hold adversarial beliefs about relationships between men and women (e.g., “all’s fair in love and war”) and to consider the use of force in interpersonal relationships acceptable.

With respect to their personal experiences, sexual assaulters were more likely than other men to have experienced abuse or violence as a child, to have been delinquent in adolescence, to have peers who viewed forced sex as acceptable, and to have had early and frequent dating and sexual experiences.

Heavy alcohol consumption also has been linked to sexual assault perpetration. In studies involving two different subject groups (i.e., incarcerated rapists and college students), men who reported that they drank heavily2 were more likely than other men to report having committed sexual assault (Abbey et al. 1994; Koss and Dinero 1988).[quote][/quote]

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