Causes of Sexual Coercion Behind the Behavior

Jakarta, some women may experience sexual coercion than men whether or not their partner. Actually, what makes a person perform sexual coercion?

A new study to find a single man about 43 percent of participants reported being hit or force a woman to perform sexual activities against her, at least once.

There is only this behavior occurs in adolescence, but there are certain groups of people that carry over into his adulthood to form the personality of the person.

The researchers present a variety of factors such as personality differences between them, the existence of certain stereotypes about women and the experience had been a victim of abuse can lead a person to have sexual coercion behaviors.

"We're trying to understand, there are some who feel remorse or learn not to behave that way," says Antonia Abbey, a psychologist at Wayne State University in Detroit, as quoted by Medindia on Friday (2/17/2012).

In this survey of men also reported that they often misinterpret the signals given by the woman, thinking she wants sex but does not have the confidence that he has more about women's power.

These conditions contributed to the occurrence of sexually coercive behavior against a partner. The results of this study are reported in the journal Psychology of Violence.

"This man sometimes has the experience to be the victim of some kind of harassment or abuse of children, tend to have personality traits such as low empathy for others, more willing to take risks, more mischievous and had multiple sexual partners," said Abbey.

While some men who have sexually aggressive behavior in the past there is a start to stop. This suggests a more mature thinking or mature.

Aggression or coercion in the sexual activity can be bad, one of which is the psychological trauma that can affect the person's sex life.