ABSTRACT
Sexual aggression against women is one of the most prominent issues both in academic research and in public debate on aggression. This chapter deals with a brief review of definitions and prevalence rates of different forms of sexual aggression. It examines the most prominent explanations of sexual aggression, explores so-called risk factors of sexual victimisation, that is, variables associated with an increased risk of suffering sexual aggression, and describes the effects of sexual aggression on the victims. The chapter provides an issue that has only recently emerged on the agenda of sexual aggression research: women's use of coercive strategies against male partners. It discusses two models of sexual aggression that propose very different processes leading to sexual aggression: the sociocultural approach and the evolutionary approach. The chapter shows that men who are sexually aggressive differ from non-aggressive men in systematic and predictable ways.
