Violence against women has received increasing public attention over the past 20 years.
The once taboo subjects of rape and wife battering are now discussed openly on talk shows …

Sexual violence is ubiquitous; it occurs in every culture, in all levels of society and in every
country of the world. Data from country and local studies indicate that, in some parts of the …

Women's rights to be free from male violence are now recognized by the United Nations as
fundamental human rights. Two parallel transformations in the understanding of rape have …

Chief Editor's Note: The objective of this study was to investigate the epidemiologic aspects
of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in victims of sexual assault and to discuss the …

In a cross-validated mediational model, the authors examined characteristics of memories
formed in response to rape and other intense unpleasant and pleasant experiences. Data …

A sexual assault occurs once every 6.4 minutes in the United States. One in every six
women will be raped during her lifetime. Although a woman is four times more likely to be …

Over the past several decades the seeming escalation of crimes involving sexually deviant,
coercive, and aggressive behavior has become an increasingly serious problem, manifested …

Background: The likelihood of genital injury following sexual assault remains unclear.
Genital injury related to sexual assault is often an issue in court proceedings, with the …

Prior articles indicate the existence of sexual harassment in the public Universities in
Nigeria, but knowledge about its prevalence in the private Faith-Based Universities is …

In this study we investigated the effects of gender and gender roles upon attitudes toward
rape among 432 female and 368 male college students in Turkey whose mean age was …