Can girls, do girls, coerce boys into committing sexual acts?
According to a study to be published shortly in a Dutch scientific publication, the answer is “yes.”
As a matter of fact, under the sub-heading, “Girls are just as bad,” the Dutch NRC Handelsblad reports:
The scientists were surprised to find that more than 10 percent of all boys and 8 percent of all girls had ever forced someone to commit a sexual act against their will. “The girls are almost just as bad as the boys,” Hendriks said. “We didn’t expect that. And the numbers we found are far higher than those in earlier studies.”
The Handelsblad is quoting clinical psychologist Jan Hendriks and criminologist Anne-Marie Slotboom who will be publishing the results of their research shortly in the Dutch scientific publication, Tijdschrift voor Seksuologie.
In their report they conclude that one out of ten boys and one out of every twelve girls they interviewed have used sexual coercion at one point.
Their acts varied from forcing a kiss or touching someone to involuntary genital intercourse or oral sex. The scientists also looked whether education and ethnicity, such as Moroccan, Turkish, Antillean or Dutch descent had any influence on such behaviour.
The article goes on to “define” sexual coercion, to comment on previous similar studies (including in the U.S.) , and to provide some specifics on the methodology of the study.
The reason the article got my attention is that when I lived in the Netherlands as a young man, many years ago, such “openness” about sex was rare. How times change.
Also—call me naive, call me “never-been-coerced”—as a man, once a boy, I just can’t believe that girls would so frequently and “brazenly” coerce boys into having sex against their will. I could be wrong. As I said, times have changed.
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The author is a retired U.S. Air Force officer and a writer.