Jozwoski's 'College Students And Sexual Consent'

Sexual assault continues to be a problem in the United States, with the rates of sexual assault being higher in college women than any other category. In Jozwoski’s and Peterson’s report “College Students and Sexual Consent: Unique Insights” they analyze the way college students perceive and respond to sexual advances. They conducted this study by taking 185 college students and asking them a number of open ended questions that provided insight to how they responded to sexual advances, how they let their partner know that they are willing to have sex, and what ‘sexual consent’ means to them. When examining the answers, four themes emerged (Joswoski & Peterson, 2012): (a) endorsement of the traditional sexual script; (b) women are responsible for performing oral sex; (c) men’s consent to sex can be aggressive; and (d) men utilize deception to obtain consent to sex.
Both men and women seemed to follow the traditional sexual script – where men would pursue the women, and women would first wait to be chased and then decide if having sex was an option or not. Another pattern was that men indicated that woman were responsible for performing oral sex. In this study, the results showed that men would accept oral sex, or ask for it with non-verbal or verbal cues, and then in turn
Men, while drinking, become more persistent and they use more physical force when trying to talk to you. There have been many situations where a man will hold onto you tightly while trying to talk to you, or force himself onto you, or try and get you to kiss him. This is an incredibly difficult situation to remove yourself from if you are physically weaker than the person pursuing you. In my opinion, male aggression is one of the key factors in sexual assault. Aggression was not reported in females, in this study, and it is very rare to hear of a woman assault a