This study examines how men’s behaviors and attitudes related to alcohol, masculinity, and relationships before starting college are related to starting college with a sexual perpetration history. It found men who report higher sexual media consumption, heavy drinking, hypermasculine beliefs, and have friends who normalized sexual violence before starting college were more likely to have a history of sexual perpetration. Conversely, men with greater consent knowledge and stronger family functioning before starting college were less likely to have a perpetration history.

Salazar, L. F., Swartout, K. M., Swahn, M. H., Bellis, A. L., Carney, J., Vagi, K. J., & Lokey, C. (2018). Precollege sexual violence perpetration and associated risk and protective factors among male college freshmen in Georgia. Journal of Adolescent Health, 62(3), S51-S57.