ABSTRACT
Intimate partner sexual violence (IPSV) is a complex problem that has severe implications for interpersonal relationships and women’s health and wellbeing, in addition to broader social consequences related to gender equality, women’s human rights generally, and reproductive and sexual justice. Working to intervene with men who perpetrate IPSV requires that such intervention be done with men in the context of these broader social consequences. As critical as it is, it is not enough for interventionists to work solely to manage individual perpetrators, or to help men become less likely to reoffend. Interventionists must work in concert with other social justice advocates and activists, on this issue and others, to help make the social change necessary to prevent intimate partner sexual violence from occurring in the first place.
