"51-60% of college men report they would rape a woman if they were certain that they would get away with it."
This statistic came up in my Gender Studies class today. It was part of a girl's presentation on Date Rape, and frankly, it scared the hell out of me.
Think about that for a bit.
Roughly every other college guy (based on this study) would think nothing of sexually violating a woman if they knew there would be no consequences.
Say what you will about men and their more "animalistic" nature when it comes to sex, but that is still no excuse. Even if you don't think that sex is this big important sacred thing that can only be done once you're married, there should be some sense of DECENCY that would stop you from doing this. Makes me wonder, would 51-60% of guys say that they would rob someone if they knew they could get away with it? What about killing someone? Is it that they honestly think sex is NOTHING, or are they just completely corrupt and are only acting like decent people most of the time because of outside controlling forces?
Makes me wonder.
2 comments:
i'd like to know the context of this statistic.
Also - aren't consequences what stops anyone from doing anything? I think a lot of people would do a lot of "bad" things if there weren't consequences. I guess the troublesome part is would there be a guilty conscience afterwards
Just can't believe this stat applies to the entire population of college-age males in the US. More than half of them don't know the difference between right and wrong? Just can't take that statement at face value without knowing a lot more about how the study was done.
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