Violencia sexual vivida por varones en el estado de guerrero, México

• Main Author: Ana María Martínez Jerez
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas 2014-05-01
• Series: Revista de Psicología y Ciencias del Comportamiento de la Unidad Académica de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales
• Subjects: Adult males; sexual violence; sexual harassment; sexual abuse; rape
• Online Access: http://www.revistapcc.uat.edu.mx/index.php/RPC/article/view/9/pdf

There are described results of 10 years of investigation on sexual violence in 87 adult resident males in Guerrero, Mexico; they were participants in a course on sexuality. The study is descriptive and attempts to outline an initial characterization of how sexual violence occurs in adult males of that region. The sample was not random for convenience. 68 % of them was forced once in his life: 64 % experienced sexual abuse, 26 % sexual harassment and 10 % violation. The average age in which they lived the events and if they spoke it its reported. On the aggressors there are brought those who are, sex, age and ranges of age. There are discussed the insufficient recognition of the sexual violence lived by males, the need for national research as well as the implications in several areas that the phenomenon can generate for those who lived through it and for society.