Male victims of domestic violence: intimate partner sexual abuse

Bates, Elizabeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8694-8078 , Harper, Elizabeth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5155-8715 , Amisi, Alende and Cristea, Maria Isabella ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7869-4178 (2023) Male victims of domestic violence: intimate partner sexual abuse. In: Shackelford, T.K., (ed.) Encyclopedia of domestic violence. Springer, Cham, Switzerland. Full text not available from this repository.

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Abstract

Intimate partner sexual abuse is a type of violence that occurs within a partner relationship, usually alongside other types of abuse. This includes any kind sexual act or behavior that is performed without consent. Men can be victims of sexual abuse in both opposite and same-sex relationships. Aggression that men can suffer includes sexual assault and forced penetration of another person.

Traditionally, perceptions and attitudes towards sexual violence have reflected the gender role expectations held within wider society (Clements et al., 2014), thus enforcing that men are the sole sexual aggressors or willing sexual recipients while women are noncoercive sexually or victims of significant male-perpetrated sexual abuse (Clements et al., 2014). As a result, men who experience female-perpetrated sexual violence (FPSV) have been underrepresented...

Item Type:	Book Section
Publisher:	Springer
ISBN:	9783030854935
Departments:	Institute of Health > Psychology and Psychological Therapies
Depositing User:	Insight Administrator
SWORD Depositor:	Insight Administrator
Date Deposited:	08 Nov 2023 10:32
Last Modified:	13 Jan 2024 15:45
URI:	https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/7414