Sexually coercive behavior increases in mens When boys have incidents like Child abuse in past

The Sexually coercive behavior increases in mens when they faced incidents like physical or sexual abuse . Boys with this history of their childhood causing four times more likely to use sexually coercive behaviour against an female partner in later life.

The researches conducted by Erin Casey, a University of Washington Tacoma assistant professor of social work, has found that victims of childhood abuse are at an increased risk of indulging in sexually coercive behaviour as an adolescent or a young adult.

“Although there can be physical force involved in sexual coercion, it more often involves such tactics as pressure, persuasion, insistence, manipulation and lying to have sex with an unwilling female partner,” said Erin. In the study involving nearly 5,650 males, 45 per cent of the respondents reported sexually coercive behaviour. Men who experienced only physical abuse were half as likely to engage in sexual coercion as those who did not experience any abuse. “The higher the frequency of childhood abuse the more likely an adolescent or young adult was to engage in sexually coercive behaviour,” added Erin.

“There is a lot of evidence indicating sexual coercion and aggression is a complex behaviour with an array of risk factors. There is this whole group of men for whom we have yet to fully understand what their risk factors are,” she added.

The study also found that men who experienced childhood sexual abuse were more likely to report becoming sexually active at a young age as well. The findings appear online in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence.