Entry:

Jaffee, David and Straus, Murray A., "Sexual Climate and Reported Rape," Archives of Sexual Behavior, 16 (April, 1987), 107-123.


Abstract:

There is no relationship between sexually liberal attitudes and rape, but sex magazine readership, urbanization, poverty, and a high percentage of divorced men are all related to a higher incidence of rape.

GSS Years:

1982

Other Data Sets:

UCRs 1980; Presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornography 1970

GSS Codebook Variables referenced by document:

Variable Name

Variable Label

 
 
REGION

REGION OF INTERVIEW

RACE

RACE OF RESPONDENT

AGE

AGE OF RESPONDENT

MARITAL

MARITAL STATUS

SPKHOMO

ALLOW HOMOSEXUAL TO SPEAK

COLHOMO

ALLOW HOMOSEXUAL TO TEACH

LIBHOMO

ALLOW HOMOSEXUALS BOOK IN LIBRARY

ABDEFECT

STRONG CHANCE OF SERIOUS DEFECT

ABNOMORE

MARRIED--WANTS NO MORE CHILDREN

ABHLTH

WOMANS HEALTH SERIOUSLY ENDANGERED

ABPOOR

LOW INCOME--CANT AFFORD MORE CHILDREN

ABRAPE

PREGNANT AS RESULT OF RAPE

ABSINGLE

NOT MARRIED

ABANY

ABORTION IF WOMAN WANTS FOR ANY REASON

PILL

BIRTH CONTROL INFORMATION

TEENPILL

BIRTH CONTROL INFORMATION TO TEENS

SEXEDUC

SEX EDUCATION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS

XMARSEX

SEX WITH PERSON OTHER THAN SPOUSE

HOMOSEX

HOMOSEXUAL SEX RELATIONS

PORNINF

MATERIALS PROVIDE INFO ABOUT SEX

PORNMORL

MATERIALS LEAD TO BREAKDOWN IN MORALS

PORNRAPE

MATERIALS LEAD TO RAPE

PORNOUT

MATERIALS PROVIDE OUTLET

PORNLAW

FEELINGS ABOUT PORNOGRAPHY LAWS

XMOVIE

SEEN X-RATED MOVIE IN LAST YEAR