Almost the totality of the interviewees believed that if a male partner forces a woman to have a sexual intercourse without her will, it is a form of sexual abuse. Similarly, they asserted that every woman can be under risk of rape, independently of her good and respectable manners. However, around *** percent of the respondents affirmed that a woman must bear her responsibility for a sexual assault if she accepts an invitation by a man after a party or if she is drunk. According to ** percent of Italians, a woman can manage to avoid a sexual intercourse if she doesn't want it. When accounting for gender differences among respondents, opinions about sexual harassment were homogeneous.
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