Although we had no prior hypotheses regarding sexual experiences and rape acknowledgment, in each of our studies (Andreoli Mathie et al., 1994; Andreoli Mathie & Kahn, 1995; Kahn et al., 1994) we examined whether acknowledged and unacknowledged victims differed in their responses to each item of the SES, such as those who indicated consensual
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TABLE 4 Mean Reactions of Acknowledged and Unacknowledged Victims Following Their Assault
Note. Multivariate F(13,59) = 4.79, p < .001. The higher the mean, the greater the reaction the woman experienced on a scale from 1 to 7. |
sex, force during petting, and attempted rape. As can be seen in Table 5, acknowledged victims reported greater frequencies of sexual experiences involving force than unacknowledged victims in their nonrape experiences, including forced kissing and petting, and the threat or actual use of force when intercourse did not occur. Thus, compared with acknowledged victims, unacknowledged victims appear to have had a less violent nonrape sexual history.