Sexual violence prevention strategies and approaches

Sexual Violence Prevention

Victoria L. Banyard, Mary M. Moynihan, and Elizabethe G. Plante conducted a meta-analysis based on 46 studies. They study how exposure to pornographic materials is connected with various negative outcomes such as an increase in sexual violence. A review of the journal "Sexual violence prevention through bystander education: An experimental evaluation," affirms the consistency of the link between sexual aggression behavior and explicit sexual materials.

The recent work of Banyard, Moynihan, and Plante attempts to integrate laboratory experimental strategies and cross-sectional survey studies to give a convincing and useful model of the possible outcomes of explicit sexual materials on behavior and sexually aggressive attitudes. Their studies suggest that men scoring high on some risk factors like higher hyper-masculinity, hostility towards women, a high frequency of hostile and sexual fantasies, a high rate of attraction towards impersonal sex and dominance motivation are likely to get exposure to various explicit materials. Consistent with their findings, they used MIDSA across three different sets of samples to measure numerous hyper-sexuality aspects. Additionally, based on the three sets of samples, high pornography scores consistently related with aspects of high anger, psychopathy, and aggression. In correlation studies, Banyard, Moynihan, and Plante established that pornography contributed peculiar variance to sexual aggression prediction (Banyard Moynihan & Plante, 2007).

While analyzing numerous experiments on the subject, Banyard, Moynihan and Plante suggest that not only are males scoring high in sexual aggression conducts more expected to be attracted to excessive use of pornography, they are similarly more expected to be influenced by being exposed to such materials. It is evident that males with high scores of self-reported inclination towards sexual aggression in females are much expected to rate females as deriving fun from sexual assaults (Banyard Moynihan & Plante, 2007). On the contrary, males with low scores on the chances of committing a rape assault demonstrated no impact. Therefore, exposure to explicit sexual material might aggravate sexually aggressive tendencies exclusively in those at high risks of such contacts.

This journal fails to indicate that mediation in sexual tendencies must be initiated early. Banyard, Moynihan, and Plante demonstrate that sexual attraction begins at least at the age of ten in females, males, heterosexuals, and homosexuals. They claim that this attraction to sex stems from a hormonal increase between the ages of seven and twelve resulting from adrenaline gland maturation. Therefore, intervention programs targeting hyper-sexuality, impulsivity, antisocial behavior, and CU traits must not wait until the victim is at the puberty stage. Instead, they must seek to attack such traits as they are in their formative faces (Banyard Moynihan & Plante, 2007).

Banyard, Moynihan, and Plante must focus their future efforts on identifying early risk factors related to subsequent sexual proclivities while clarifying their causative roles. The authors must then translate such knowledge into practical actions. They must establish how to measure such factors validly and reliably so that vulnerable children can be spotted (Banyard Moynihan & Plante, 2007). This is mostly in the mental health context and effective mediation must be studied and initiated. Besides responding to the obvious vulnerable children that manifested conducts suggests risk factors or report a history of abuse, the researchers ought to devise new assessment strategies.