{"id":81124,"date":"2016-06-07T01:50:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T01:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/college-athletes-are-no-angels-over-half-admit-to-sexually-coercive-behaviors\/"},"modified":"2016-06-07T01:50:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T01:50:41","slug":"college-athletes-are-no-angels-over-half-admit-to-sexually-coercive-behaviors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/college-athletes-are-no-angels-over-half-admit-to-sexually-coercive-behaviors\/","title":{"rendered":"College Athletes Are No Angels: Over Half Admit to \u2018Sexually Coercive&#8217; Behaviors"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"field-body\">\n<p>Unfortunately, a new study published in the journal <em>Violence Against Women<\/a><\/em> found that this kind of reprehensible behavior isn\u2019t rare\u2014especially among college athletes.<\/p>\n<h3>RELATED: Emma Sulkowicz Is No Longer Answering Your Questions About Her Sexual Assault<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>In a survey of 379 men\u2014159 of whom played rec sports and 29 of whom were intercollegiate athletes\u2014researchers asked participants to respond to statements that met the legal definition of rape like, \u201cI used threats to make my partner have oral or anal sex.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The results were sickening: Fifty-four percent of athletes and 34 percent of non-athletes admitted to having engaged in sexually coercive<\/a> behaviors. What does sexually coercive mean, exactly? It includes making a partner have sex without a condom and using physical force or threats to commit rape.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Sign up for Women&#8217;s Health&#8217;s new newsletter,\u00a0So This Happened<\/a>, to get the day\u2019s trending stories and health studies.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scientists also found that guys who admitted they used forceful tactics to take advantage of women<\/a> were more likely to agree with rape-justifying statements like, \u201cIf a woman doesn\u2019t fight back, it isn\u2019t rape,\u201d and notions of ridiculously antiquated gender roles like, \u201cWomen should worry less about their rights and more about becoming good wives and mothers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Worth pointing out: These are just the men who actually <em>admitted <\/em>to doing these things, making it likely that the actual numbers are even higher.<\/p>\n<p>If you or someone you know is a victim of sexual assault<\/a>, you can find help here:<\/p>\n<p>National Sexual Assault Hotline: 800-656-HOPE (4673)<\/p>\n<p>Rape, Abuse,  Incest National Network<\/a><\/p>\n<p>End Rape on Campus<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Know Your IX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>National Sexual Violence Resource Center<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately, a new study published in the journal Violence Against Women found that this kind of reprehensible behavior isn\u2019t rare\u2014especially among college athletes. RELATED: Emma Sulkowicz Is No Longer Answering Your Questions About Her Sexual Assault In a survey of 379 men\u2014159 of whom played rec sports and 29 of whom were intercollegiate athletes\u2014researchers asked <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/college-athletes-are-no-angels-over-half-admit-to-sexually-coercive-behaviors\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}