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Nearly half of high school and college-aged men have reported having unwanted sex at least once in their life, according to a recent study.



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According to the study, 18 percent of these men have had sex as the result of force. Thirty-one percent of these men also reported that they had been verbally coerced into having unwanted sex at least once, and 26 percent said they have experienced "unwanted seduction by sexual behavior" such as fondling and other intimate advances.



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According to Dr. Bryana French, the lead author of the study, it is a common misconception that women wont rape or attempt to initiate sex via coercion with an unwilling male because of a lack of erection. However, French says that the study defined "sex" as oral, vaginal, or anal and did not have to necessarily involve male genitalia.

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