Sexual Dysfunction during Rape

SANE/SART Services for Sexual Assault Victims: Policy Implications

“…One interesting finding from the SANE/SART study was that only 35 percent of the cases had biological evidence that was adequate for DNA testing. This percentage is quite similar to a 1977 study on sexual dysfunction during rape (Groth & Burgess, 1977). The lack of DNA may be attributed to a number of factors such as the nature of sexual assault (e.g., forced oral assault); the victim may have showered, brushed her teeth, or washed her clothes; or the perpetrator may have used a condom or may not have ejaculated (thus not leaving any or enough biological evidence for analysis).…”

“…In a study of 170 convicted rapists, Groth and Burgess (1977) reported 58 cases (34 percent) of sexual dysfunction, 43 cases (25 percent) with no sexual dysfunction, 34 cases (20 percent) where penetration did not occur, and 35 cases (21 percent) without data. Convicted offenders in the study admitted to impotence, premature ejaculation, and retarded ejaculation in the commission of their offenses but not in their consenting relationships.…”

MMPI-based personality types among juvenile sexual offenders

“…It generally is agreed that juvenile sexual offending behavior does not constitute a single homogeneous class of behavior. At minimum, a distinction needs to be made between noncoercive, somewhat passive sexual contact between an adolescent and, often, a younger child and, on the other hand, the more threatening and aggressive sexual assault (Deisher, Wenet, Paperny, Clark, & Fehrenbach, 1982;Groth, 1977;Shoor, Speed, & Bartlet, 1966). Other types of juvenile sexual offending behavior identified in the literature include the adolescent offender whose mental illness is apparent in the act (Shoor et al, 1966); the adolescent offender who has no physical contact with the victim (e.g., indecent exposure, stealing underwear, or peeping; Deisher et al, 1982); and the adolescent sexual psychopath who displays a general pattern of aggressiveness, manipulativeness, and lack of guilt and remorse (Markey, 1950).…”

Rape in war1

“…However, s e d gratification is neither the primary aim nor the primary result of sexual assault; many rapists have access to a consenting pvmer (Groth, 1979 and in what is essentially a civil war, as in Bosnia, the men are generally located close to their homes, they retain contact with their families and arguably are less likely to be sexually deprived. It could reasonably be argued that sex would be given a fairly low priority by men on the front line who are about to be killed: which may explain why sexual dysfunction and ejaculatory failure associated with rape are so commonly reported in peacetime and in war (Groth and Burgess, 1977).…”