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Table 2 Multivariate comparison of male and female students' alcohol consumption and sexual activity; male predictive factors

From: Gender differences in alcohol-related non-consensual sex; cross-sectional analysis of a student population

Variable

Category

Adjusted odds ratio (95% confidence interval)

Wald

P

Relevance of other person flirting with you when deciding whether they will agree to have sex with you

Irrelevant

Reference

10.24

0.006

 

Undecided

1.89 (1.15 - 3.11)

6.28

0.012

 

Relevant

1.83 (1.24 - 2.71)

9.28

0.002

Relevance of the other person removing some of their clothes when deciding whether they will agree to have sex with you

Irrelevant

Reference

9.15

0.010

 

Undecided

0.82 (0.27 - 2.47)

0.13

0.718

 

Relevant

2.29 (0.91 - 5.72)

3.13

0.077

Relevance of the other person removing some of your clothes when deciding whether they will agree to have sex with you

Irrelevant

Reference

5.44

0.066

 

Undecided

3.42 (1.10 - 10.62)

4.52

0.033

 

Relevant

3.04 (1.15 - 8.00)

5.07

0.024

Consent is about agreeing to sex through choice

No

Reference

8.09

0.018

 

Unsure

0.32 (0.11 - 0.90)

4.68

0.030

 

Yes

0.30 (0.13 - 0.69)

8.09

0.004

Consent is about having the freedom to choose to have sex

No

Reference

8.60

0.014

 

Unsure

1.44 (0.80 - 2.60)

1.48

0.224

 

Yes

0.78 (0.48 - 1.26)

1.06

0.304

Consent needs to be verbally agreed

No

Reference

6.44

0.040

 

Unsure

0.71 (0.45 - 1.10)

2.35

0.125

 

Yes

0.63 (0.44 - 0.90)

6.32

0.012

Being drunk affects one's capacity to consent to sex

Disagree

Reference

9.83

0.007

 

Undecided

0.47 (0.19 - 1.13)

2.87

0.090

 

Agree

0.53 (0.35 - 0.79)

9.48

0.002

Person A is moderately drunk; person B is severely drunk and too drunk to give consent. They have sex. Next day B states rape has occurred. Should A be held responsible for rape?

Disagree

Reference

10.18

0.006

 

Undecided

0.50 (0.32 - 0.79)

9.15

0.002

 

Agree

0.70 (0.48 - 1.02)

3.43

0.064

A significant number of rapes reported to the police are false allegations

Disagree

Reference

8.61

0.014

 

Undecided

1.38 (0.89 - 2.14)

2.04

0.153

 

Agree

1.75 (1.20 - 2.54)

8.61

0.003

Being drunk when having sex increases the likelihood of a false rape allegation

Disagree

Reference

7.30

0.026

 

Undecided

0.77 (0.29 - 2.02)

0.28

0.597

 

Agree

1.79 (0.99 - 3.24)

3.71

0.054

  1. All the variables in Table 1 were entered into the model; only variables (or variable strata) significantly related to the dependent variable are retained in the logistic regression model. N = 994. Hosmer and Lemeshow Goodness-of-Fit Test: X 2 = 4.74, P = 0.79.