The odds of alcohol abuse did not differ among those who did and did not experience forced sexual initiation or early sexual debut. Among FSWs in West Bengal, HIV positive status was significantly associated with sexual violence [ 19]. This includes sexual touching of any part of someone’s body, and it makes no difference whether you’re wearing clothes or not. These models included a fixed effect for country and accounted for survey design, including stratification and clustering, and were adjusted to control for age and marital status. Consenting to sex is a given; making “assumptions” about what the other person wants is, for me, a deal-breaker.

For example, a survey in South Africa revealed that a high proportion of boys reported that they had been forced to have sex.Social support, particularly from a woman’s family, may indicate that she is valued, enhance her self esteem, and be a source of practical assistance during violent experiences or afterwards [ 27].

These results confirm the associations between both partner alcohol consumption and violence [ 55, 57] and women’s alcohol consumption and violence [ 45, 58] that have been found in previous studies.History of forced sex in association with drug use and sexual HIV risk behaviors, infections with STDs and diagnostic medical care. The odds of forced sexual initiation or early sexual debut did not differ by orphan status, childhood physical violence, or witnessing violence in the community during childhood. This paper reports on fieldwork carried out in 2011 with the aim of investigating the attitudes and reported behaviour of Congolese high school students concerning sexual relationships.

In the final multivariable model, women who had a high number of partners who had a strong tendency to drink alcohol before sex were more likely to have experienced forced sex, and women who had both unprotected sex with a nonspousal partner and > 20 days of alcohol consumption in the last 30 days were more likely to have experienced forced sex. You have permission to use, distribute, and reproduce these in any medium, provided the source and authors are credited.Licenses: All visualizations, data, and articles produced by Our World in Data are open access under the Creative Commons BY license. You might be able to get support from a trusted friend or family member, but there are also organisations that can help. Sexual coercion, domestic violence, and negotiating condom use among low-income African American women. The interaction of alcohol and violence is particularly evident in the realm of commercial sex work.