An estimated 1 in 16 women in the U.S. said they were forced or coerced into having sex for the first time. That equates to 3.3 million women ages of 18 and 44.
“Any sexual encounter that occurs against somebody’s will is rape,” said, an internist and Harvard Medical School researcher who led the study. “If somebody is verbally pressured into having sex, it’s just as much rape.”
Almost 16% of affected women reported fair or poor health, double the rate of other women. The study couldn’t establish whether forced sex caused or contributed to any of the health or other problems.“Experiencing rape at first sexual encounter is an extreme loss of autonomy over one’s sexuality,” Hawks said. It’s not surprising, she added, that it might lead to later mental and physical health problems, given other studies on lasting effects of trauma.
The new study is an analysis of responses from 13,310 adult women who participated in nationally representative U.S. government health surveys from 2011 to 2017, before the #MeToo movement went viral.
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