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" A new study of 379 college men found that more than half of athletes and a more than 38 percent\u00A0of non-athletes admitted\u00A0to coercing a partner into sex. Researchers surveyed male college students\u00A0from one\u00A0large, public, Division I university in the Southeast and asked about a list of sexually coercive behaviors \u2014 including threatening partners into oral or anal sex \u2014 almost all of which met the legal definition of rape. Researchers admit that surveying men from only one college limited the study, which was published in the journal\u00A0Violence Against Women last week; they asked four other universities to participate, but they each declined, they told the\u00A0Washington Post. A disturbing pattern emerged. Men who admitted to coercive sex acts tended to agree with two specific\u00A0attitudes: the belief in\u00A0rape myths,\u00A0like &amp;quot;If a woman doesn&amp;#039;t fight back, it isn&amp;#039;t rape,&amp;quot;\u00A0and a traditional view of gender roles,\u00A0such as &amp;quot;Women should worry less about their rights and more about becoming good wives and mothers.&amp;quot; (Interestingly, this language was\u00A0taken from a survey developed back in 1973, which suggests that men&amp;#039;s attitudes toward women haven&amp;#039;t shifted as much as we&amp;#039;d hoped in the past 40 years.) &amp;quot;Sports are a hypermasculine endeavor, and there&amp;#039;s a lot that connects hypermasculinity to violence,&amp;quot; Kristy McCray, an assistant professor of health and sport sciences at Otterbein Universtiy in Ohio, told\u00A0the\u00A0Washington Post.\u00A0 Of course, not every college guy wants to force or trick a girl into having sex, and not every athlete is a predator. But these stats do\u00A0show alarming rates of not only\u00A0sexual assault and rape, but also\u00A0the culture that perpetuates it. One in five women and one in 16 men will be sexually assaulted while in college, and 90 percent of those victims do not report their assault.\u00A0 The\u00A0Washington Post reported this news with the headline, &amp;quot;A shocking number of college men surveyed admit coercing a partner into sex.&amp;quot; But as nearly 5,000 people on Twitter have pointed out through the strength of their retweets, this sad news isn&amp;#039;t shocking at all.\u00A0      RT if you aren&amp;#039;t shocked https://t.co/pfWTcrYdJ4 \u2014 The African American (@JamilahLemieux) June 5, 2016    If you&amp;#039;ve been sexually assaulted, you deserve to get help. Dial the\u00A0toll-free hotline for RAINN (Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network)\u00A0at 800-656-HOPE (4673) or live-chat at RAINN.org. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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