title: The sexual functioning profile of a nonforensic sample of individuals reporting sexual aggression against women.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Sexual offenders are believed to present marked sexual difficulties. However, most of the studies characterizing sex offenders' sexual functioning were conducted with samples of documented/incarcerated sexual aggressors. At the present state of the knowledge there is limited information on the sexual functioning profile of individuals reporting some form of sexual violence but who were not documented/apprehended by the judicial system.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this preliminary study was to characterize a sample of community sexual aggressors (college students) according to their sexual functioning. Results were expected to add information about the relationship between sexual functioning and sexual violence, and to impact strategies aimed at preventing sexual aggression on college campus.
  
  
  METHODS
  One hundred sixty-one male college students participated in a cross-sectional study. Students were recruited at a Portuguese university using nonrandom methods. Among these students, 35 reported sexual aggression against women. The measures were completed individually and anonymously.
  
  
  METHODS
  Participants completed a modified version of the International Index of Erectile Function, the Sexual Inhibition and Sexual Excitation Scales, the Sexual Self-Consciousness Scale, the Questionnaire of Cognitive Schema Activation in Sexual Context, and the Sexual-Esteem Scale.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Results indicated that students reporting sexual aggression against women presented significantly more erectile and orgasmic difficulties, and more sexual inhibition due to the threat of performance failure than the control peers. Additionally, students reporting sexual aggression presented more sexual embarrassment, and more schemas of undesirability and incompetence.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Results pointed toward a possible relationship between sexual violence as reported by college students and sexual performance anxiety. These findings are expected to impact conceptual models on sexual aggression perpetrated by nonforensic individuals.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal. joana.pereira.carvalho@gmail.com
authors.forename: Joana
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Carvalho
authors.forename: Ana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Quinta-Gomes
authors.forename: Pedro J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Nobre
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression; D001007:Anxiety / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011174:Portugal; D012742:Sex Offenses; D020018:Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D013334:Students; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: College Students; Rapists; Sexual Aggression; Sexual Functioning