Yes, the results of this study are horrifying to many of us Westerners — and even the most adamant culturally relativist would probably raise her eyebrows at the fact that 25% of men in South Africa admit to raping a woman, that nearly half of those men have raped repeatedly, and that three-quarters of the men first attacked while in their teenage years.
But, my question is, how do you change this behavior? If, as one of the researchers suggests, that violence culturally defines what it is to be a man or to be masculine, then is this situation fixable? How do you instill a different value set for what demonstrates masculinity and, if you can accomplish that, whose value set do you use?
Read more at The Guardian: Quarter of men in South Africa admit rape, survey finds
