NCJ Number
231524
Journal
Violence Against Women Volume: 16 Issue: 7 Dated: July 2010 Pages: 730-742
Date Published
July 2010
Length
13 pages
Annotation
This study tested the hypothesis that women with sexually coercive partners would be more likely than other women to comply with unwanted sex.
Abstract
Sexual compliance involves willing consent to unwanted sex despite a lack of sexual desire. The authors hypothesized that compliance would be significantly more common among women with sexually coercive partners because compliance allows women to bypass possible coercion. Undergraduate women in heterosexual relationships (N = 76) responded to self-report measures of partner sexually coercive behavior at baseline and sexual compliance 6 weeks later. As expected, reports of partner coercive behavior at Time 1 predicted women's willing consent to unwanted sex at Time 2. Most compliant women consented to unwanted sex after learning their partners may coerce them if they refuse. Tables and references (Published Abstract)