Very interesting
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Psychometric Properties of the Sexually Aggressive Behaviors Scale: Factor Structure, Reliability, and Construct Validity in a Sample of Portuguese Female College Students
I randomly found this study a couple of days ago. It's basically a test of validity and internal structure of the basic SABS (Sexually Aggressive Behaviors Scale) questionnaire, done by administering it to over a thousand Portuguese female college students and studying the results.
Here are said results:
As is usual with studies such as these, they try hard to downplay women's usage of physical force during sexual coercion, emphasizing that most of female-perpetrated sexual coercion doesn't involve physical force at all. Now, that is true, but it's a bit disingenious since, by the vast majority of studies we have, that is also true of the male one, and there overall isn't much of a gender difference in the various tactics of sexual coercion, however they never point this fact out. In fact, during the course of the study, they conclude that the SABS could be trimmed to just 10 items, and it just so happens that the two they throw out from further study are the last ones. Item 12 (how many times the women have tried to force a man into sex by threatening him with a weapon) was not studied further for showing almost zero variance and being just so small, which is understandable, but then they also threw out item 11 (attempting to force a man into sex by using physical force) for showing high colinearity with item 10, which is pretty funny, given that not only does item 11 have more women admitting to have done so at least once, but it is also more serious as it is about actually using physical force instead of just threatening it, yet it is the less common and less serious item they kept in for further study, which almost makes it seem like they are genuinely trying to downplay how physically aggressive women can be when they want sex.
However, that isn't the main thing that I find fascinating about those results.
That would be the results for item 9, that is, attempting to blackmail a man who had gotten himself into a compromising position by using it against him. It's the third most often reported tactic, with 8.5% of the women admitting to have done so, which is already more than 1 in 12 of women doing so. But here's the thing, how many women would even be in a position to do so in the first place? Most of the other things mentioned can be done by just about anyone, apart from some of those which are relationships-only. Just about everyone can try using physical force, threatening to do so, trying to pressure someone into sex verbally, but if you want to blackmail them like that, then that person not only must be in a compromising situation, but you must also know that they are in that situation. Not to mention that it also needs to be a situation severe enough for you to think that said person might agree to have sex with you just for you to keep your mouth shut.
That's why I've included the poll. How often does that even happen? I'm also a collegecel, currently in my last year, and I've never encountered a situation where I could blackmail a person to do anything at all. I'd like to see the responses from the other collegecels here.
Suppose for the sake of argument that half of the women in that study have experienced a situation where someone had put themselves into a very compromising and uncomfortable situation around them, and suppose that half of those people were men. While men probably cause trouble and break rules a bit more in college, since people's friendship networks are mostly same sex, an even split probably makes sense.
If just those two things were true, then while the total percentage of college women blackmailing men for sex, whether successfully or unsuccessfully, would still be 8.5%, the percentage of women who were in the position to do so in the first place and did so would be 34%. One in three women who would see a man break some rule he shouldn't have or otherwise put himself in a weak position would have taken advantage of that and try forcing him into sex in exchange for staying quiet. And all of that if only those two conditions were true, it would of course be much higher if we tightened the net a bit more.
For example, we have lots of evidence that the chance of experiencing sexual assault is higher for attractive people.
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Going with the 34% number, how much would that percentage change if we take attractiveness into account? What would be the amount of Chads whom women who can try blackmailing them into sex would actually do so? 60%, or 70, or 80? Is it basically certain for a rule-breaking bad boy Chad to have every woman who witnesses him breaking the rules a bit too hard to try to force him into sex with her?
But, some people might say, this is just a situational result which the researchers only got because they were polling college students, who spend their time in places with strict rules, the breaking of which might have severe consequences and which aren't really applicable to what normal adults experience. Which is a fair point, but given that the average college student has been attending the place for about 2 or 3 years, for what is almost certainly a double-digit percentage of them to have taken the chance to try blackmailing someone into sex after getting it is still incredible. Not to mention that workplaces also aren't exactly places where you can just flaunt the rules, but so far, we don't have much data on this.
.Psychometric Properties of the Sexually Aggressive Behaviors Scale: Factor Structure, Reliability, and Construct Validity in a Sample of Portuguese Female College Students
I randomly found this study a couple of days ago. It's basically a test of validity and internal structure of the basic SABS (Sexually Aggressive Behaviors Scale) questionnaire, done by administering it to over a thousand Portuguese female college students and studying the results.
Here are said results:
As is usual with studies such as these, they try hard to downplay women's usage of physical force during sexual coercion, emphasizing that most of female-perpetrated sexual coercion doesn't involve physical force at all. Now, that is true, but it's a bit disingenious since, by the vast majority of studies we have, that is also true of the male one, and there overall isn't much of a gender difference in the various tactics of sexual coercion, however they never point this fact out. In fact, during the course of the study, they conclude that the SABS could be trimmed to just 10 items, and it just so happens
that the two they throw out from further study are the last ones. Item 12 (how many times the women have tried to force a man into sex by threatening him with a weapon) was not studied further for showing almost zero variance and being just so small, which is understandable, but then they also threw out item 11 (attempting to force a man into sex by using physical force) for showing high colinearity with item 10, which is pretty funny, given that not only does item 11 have more women admitting to have done so at least once, but it is also more serious as it is about actually using physical force instead of just threatening it, yet it is the less common and less serious item they kept in for further study, which almost makes it seem like they are genuinely trying to downplay how physically aggressive women can be when they want sex.However, that isn't the main thing that I find fascinating about those results.
That would be the results for item 9, that is, attempting to blackmail a man who had gotten himself into a compromising position by using it against him. It's the third most often reported tactic, with 8.5% of the women admitting to have done so, which is already more than 1 in 12 of women doing so. But here's the thing, how many women would even be in a position to do so in the first place
? Most of the other things mentioned can be done by just about anyone, apart from some of those which are relationships-only. Just about everyone can try using physical force, threatening to do so, trying to pressure someone into sex verbally, but if you want to blackmail them like that, then that person not only must be in a compromising situation, but you must also know that they are in that situation. Not to mention that it also needs to be a situation severe enough for you to think that said person might agree to have sex with you just for you to keep your mouth shut.That's why I've included the poll. How often does that even happen? I'm also a collegecel, currently in my last year, and I've never encountered a situation where I could blackmail a person to do anything at all. I'd like to see the responses from the other collegecels here.
Suppose for the sake of argument that half of the women in that study have experienced a situation where someone had put themselves into a very compromising and uncomfortable situation around them, and suppose that half of those people were men. While men probably cause trouble and break rules a bit more in college, since people's friendship networks are mostly same sex, an even split probably makes sense.
If just those two things were true, then while the total percentage of college women blackmailing men for sex, whether successfully or unsuccessfully, would still be 8.5%, the percentage of women who were in the position to do so in the first place and did so would be 34%. One in three women who would see a man break some rule he shouldn't have or otherwise put himself in a weak position would have taken advantage of that and try forcing him into sex in exchange for staying quiet. And all of that if only those two conditions were true, it would of course be much higher if we tightened the net a bit more.
For example, we have lots of evidence that the chance of experiencing sexual assault is higher for attractive people.
"For example, highly attractive boys were five times more likely than other boys to have experienced child sexual abuse."
Looks don't matter btw:feelstastyman::feelstastyman:. Beauty is in the eye of the offender: Physical attractiveness and adolescent victimization Using data from the 2013 wave of the Finnish Youth Victimization Survey (n = 5095) we estimated a structural equation model to examine the...
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Going with the 34% number, how much would that percentage change if we take attractiveness into account? What would be the amount of Chads whom women who can try blackmailing them into sex would actually do so? 60%, or 70, or 80
? Is it basically certain for a rule-breaking bad boy Chad to have every woman who witnesses him breaking the rules a bit too hard to try to force him into sex with her?But, some people might say, this is just a situational result which the researchers only got because they were polling college students, who spend their time in places with strict rules, the breaking of which might have severe consequences and which aren't really applicable to what normal adults experience. Which is a fair point, but given that the average college student has been attending the place for about 2 or 3 years, for what is almost certainly a double-digit percentage of them to have taken the chance to try blackmailing someone into sex after getting it is still incredible. Not to mention that workplaces also aren't exactly places where you can just flaunt the rules, but so far, we don't have much data on this
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