Toxic masculinity leads to sexual assault

An article on FiveThirtyEight about the role that toxic masculinity – rather than alcohol – plays in sexual assault interviews Maria Testa, senior research scientist in UB’s Clinical and Research Institute on Addictions and the Department of Psychology.  If you compare men who have perpetrated sexual assault to those who have not, the perpetrator group always drinks more, she said, adding that antisocial behavior and negative views about women are much stronger predictors of sexual violence than alcohol use. “There’s a small number of sociopaths, but there’s a lot of it that’s cultural,” she said.

Read more: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/science-says-toxic-masculinity-more-than-alcohol-leads-to-sexual-assault/