The findings from this study suggest that college students with ASD and their peers with disabilities are more likely to experience unwanted sexual contact when compared to students without disabilities. These results parallel findings that women undergraduates with a disability experienced higher rates of nonconsensual sexual contact while expanding on reports that sexual victimization disproportionately affects women with developmental disabilities.

Brown, K.R., Peña, E.V., & Rankin, S. (2017). Unwanted Sexual Contact: Students With Autism and Other Disabilities at Greater Risk. Journal of College Student Development 58(5), 771-776. doi:10.1353/csd.2017.0059.