The largest international study on rape, carried out by the United Nations for two years involving 10,000 men from Bangladesh, China, Cambodia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Sri Lanka, was published in 2013. The study found that rape is not a rarity: one in four men interviewed had raped someone at some point in their lives, in addition, one in 10 had raped someone who wasn’t their romantic partner.
The study clarified that rapes occur within marriage. Repeated offences are very high among the rapists and unhealthy attitudes about sexuality take root at a young age. The UN researchers said the sexual offenders feel a sense of “sexual entitlement” when inflicting violence and about half of them don’t feel guilty about it.
