Nearly half of college women had nonconsensual intercourse at least once

Evidence

Overall, 84 of the women (42% of the females in the sample, 68% of the nonvirgins) had had intercourse at least once under these conditions. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2449

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

Related

• Most non-virgin college women reported coerced or forced intercourse at least once (similarity 0.94)
• College women reported far more lifetime intercourse acts than college men. (similarity 0.87)
• Female university students now have about twice as much intercourse as males. (similarity 0.87)
• Roughly a third of college students have cheated on a partner (similarity 0.85)
• Reported infidelity among university students rose from 1994 to 1996 (similarity 0.84)
• Two-thirds of college virgin students remained virgins two years later (similarity 0.83)
• College women’s sexual partners typically fall outside the college sample (similarity 0.83)
• Men report far fewer acts of intercourse than sexually active women (similarity 0.82)
• Authoritarian and nonauthoritarian students differ in sexual behavior (similarity 0.82)
• Males have serious sexual fantasies about twice as often as females (similarity 0.82)
• College students mostly use birth control while a small high-activity minority never does. (similarity 0.81)
• University students evaluate nearly all sexual acts positively and by gender similarly (similarity 0.81)
• The age of first intercourse among college students dropped steadily through the 1990s. (similarity 0.81)
• University students rate nearly all sexual acts positively on enjoyment scales (similarity 0.80)
• Male and female students’ sexual anxieties show near-zero overlap (similarity 0.80)