Rape Statistic

Wow....very suprising....luckily i live in Malaysia and surely it can not be applied to me. this is indicating the level of education of the Asia people. Many Asian countries are still in the poorest region  in the world,so is their minds and actions.Asia is infested with corruption and malpractices. you can get away from anything with help from money and power.
Around one in four men across six countries in Asia and the Pacific have committed rape, according to a study published in The Lancet on Tuesday.
Each year 250,000 rapes are reported worldwide but a World Health Organization report previously found that one third of women worldwide claim to have been victims of domestic or sexual violence.
However, there has so far been little research into the perpetrators of sexual assault and how many people are likely to engage in sexual violence during their lifetimes.
The Lancet study aims to change perceptions about the commonality of violence against women and to invoke extensive campaigns to prevent it.
The results are based on interviews with 10,178 men aged 19-49 from across Bangladesh, China, Cambodia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Sri Lanka. During the interviews men were asked if they had ever forced a woman to have sex, or if they had ever forced sex on a woman who was too drugged or drunk to consent. The word “rape” was not used.
The study, which looks at both rape and intimate partner violence (IPV) in the six countries, was led by Dr Jewkes, a specialist of public health medicine at South Africa’s Medical Research Council. According to her results, around one in ten men – 11 percent –admitted having raped a woman who was not their partner. When they extended the study to include intimate violence towards a partner, the rate rose to nearly one in four, or 24 percent.
According to Jewkes’ study in The Lancet, men who had paid for sex, had a significant number of sexual partners, or had a history of physical violence were more prone to committing rape. The study also discovered that men who had suffered childhood abuse were more likely to commit rape. Jewkes spoke of the importance of promoting a culture of prevention where rape is concerned:
“In view of the high prevalence of rape worldwide, our findings clearly show that prevention strategies need to show increased focus on the structural and social risk factors for rape. We now need to move towards a culture of preventing the perpetration of rape from ever occurring, rather than relying on prevention through responses,” she said.
Charlotte Watts, head of the Gender, Violence and Health Centre at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine also voiced her support of prevention and stated: “It is not enough to focus on services for women.” She also discussed the idea of challenging traditional ideas of masculinity in some communities: “It may be that the culture where they grew up condones violence, but it’s not impossible to change that,” she said.
According to one man from Bangladesh, women should have sex with their husband whenever he wants it:
“Women shall do their job and men shall do theirs … After a long day of work, men return to the home. The wife should cook for her husband, should prepare water for the shower, then take meals and sleep together, show some affection. I always want this. [A woman’s only job is to] feed [her husband], chat with him and then sleep together.”