Gender & Health Research Unit, Medical Research Council and School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Pretoria, South Africa.
PLoS One. 2011;6(12):e29590. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029590. Epub 2011 Dec 28.
To describe the prevalence and patterns of rape perpetration in a randomly selected sample of men from the general adult population, to explore factors associated with rape and to describe how men explained their acts of rape.
Cross-sectional household study with a two- stage randomly selected sample of men.
1737 South African men aged 18-49 completed a questionnaire administered using an Audio-enhanced Personal Digital Assistant. Multivariable logistic regression models were built to identify factors associated with rape perpetration.
In all 27.6% (466/1686) of men had raped a woman, whether an intimate partner, stranger or acquaintance, and whether perpetrated alone or with accomplices, and 4.7% had raped in the last 12 months. First rapes for 75% were perpetrated before age 20, and 53.9% (251) of those raping, did so on multiple occasions. The logistic regression model showed that having raped was associated with greater adversity in childhood, having been raped by a man and higher maternal education. It was associated with less equitable views on gender relations, having had more partners, and many more gender inequitable practices including transactional sex and physical partner violence. Also drug use, gang membership and a higher score on the dimensions of psychopathic personality, namely blame externalisation and Machiavellian egocentricity. Asked about why they did it, the most common motivations stemmed from ideas of sexual entitlement.
Perpetration of rape is so prevalent that population-based measures of prevention are essential to complement criminal justice system responses. Our findings show the importance of measures to build gender equity and change dominant ideas of masculinity and gender relations as part of rape prevention. Reducing men's exposure to trauma in childhood is also critically important.
描述在一般成年人群体中随机抽取的男性样本中强奸行为的流行率和模式，探讨与强奸相关的因素，并描述男性如何解释自己的强奸行为。
横断面家庭研究，对随机抽取的两阶段男性样本进行研究。
1737 名南非 18-49 岁男性完成了一份使用音频增强个人数字助理（Audio-enhanced Personal Digital Assistant）进行管理的问卷。建立多变量逻辑回归模型，以确定与强奸行为相关的因素。
在所有男性中，有 27.6%（466/1686）强奸过女性，无论是亲密伴侣、陌生人还是熟人，无论是单独还是与共犯实施，有 4.7%在过去 12 个月内强奸过。75%的首次强奸发生在 20 岁之前，其中 53.9%（251 人）多次强奸。逻辑回归模型显示，强奸与童年时期更多的逆境、被男性强奸以及更高的母亲教育程度有关。它与性别关系更不平等的观点、更多的伴侣以及更多性别不平等的行为有关，包括性交易和身体伴侣暴力。还与药物使用、帮派成员身份以及精神病态人格维度（即责任外化和马基雅维利式自我中心）的得分更高有关。当被问及他们为什么这样做时，最常见的动机源于性权利的想法。
强奸行为如此普遍，因此需要基于人群的预防措施来补充刑事司法系统的反应。我们的研究结果表明，必须采取措施来建立性别平等，并改变占主导地位的男性气质和性别关系观念，作为预防强奸的一部分。减少男性在童年时期受到创伤的机会也至关重要。
