Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture--and What We Can Do about It

by Kate Harding

2010 paper “Young Heterosexual Men’s Use of the Miscommunication Model in Explaining Acquaintance Rape,” psychologists Susan Hansen, Rachael O’Byrne, and Mark Rapley reaffirmed Frith and Kitzinger’s findings that “young men . . . can and do display a sophisticated understanding of subtle verbal and nonverbal means of communicating sexual refusal.”