NONSEXIST SEXUAL EXPERIENCES SURVEY AND SCALE OF ATTRACTION TO SEXUALAGGRESSION

Sixty-six male and 51 female second year medical students anonymously completed the Sexual Experiences Survey (SES) and the Attraction to Se xual Aggression (ASA) Scale, both modified so that women could report behaviours in which they were aggressors, and men, behaviours in which they were victims. Men's aggression scores on the two scales were sig nificantly correlated. As expected, more men than women reported both the likelihood and the experience of being sexual aggressors, although 6% of women reported being so aroused they couldn't stop when their p artner didn't want intercourse and 13% of men reported having intercou rse against their will. In men sexually coercive behaviours correlated positively with the masculinity scale of the Bem Sex Role Inventory. Fewer female medical students reported experiencing sexually aggressiv e behaviours compared to US or New Zealand university students; howeve r, the percentage of male students who reported using or threatening t o use physical force was in the same range as that of US students. Sig nificant attention to the issue of sexual coercion would appear necess ary in the education of medical students.