{"id":16096,"date":"2013-09-14T03:09:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T03:09:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-10-15T14:16:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T14:16:26","slug":"almost-a-quarter-of-men-admit-to-rape-in-parts-of-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=16096","title":{"rendered":"Almost a quarter of men ‘admit to rape in parts of Asia’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rape was particularly common within relationships. However, one in 10 men admitted raping a woman who was not their partner.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ten thousand men from six countries took part in the survey.<\/p>\n

It is the first multi-country study to examine how widespread violence against women is and the reasons behind it.<\/p>\n

Of those who admitted rape, just under half said they had done so more than once.<\/p>\n

The prevalence of rape varied between countries.<\/p>\n

In Papua New Guinea, more than six out of 10 men surveyed admitted forcing a woman to have sex.<\/p>\n

It was least common in urban areas of Bangladesh, where it was just under one in 10 and Sri Lanka where it was just over one in 10.<\/p>\n

In Cambodia, China and Indonesia it ranged from one in five to almost half of all men surveyed.<\/p>\n

The authors said that the findings do not represent the whole Asia and Pacific region – but the survey respondents do provide a good demographic match for the countries studied.<\/p>\n

Men were asked questions like:<\/strong><\/p>\n