Hostility toward women is an established risk factor for sexual violence and is often found to be present in men prone to sexual transgression. There are also clinical indications that high-risk rapists may have more ambivalent attitudes toward women, including the strong desire to be positively evaluated by women. We investigated attitudes toward women in high-risk male rapists (n = 42), nonsexual male offenders (n = 65), and matched male community controls (n = 42), by means of self-report (hostility toward women, benevolent sexism, hostile sexism) and implicit measures assessing associations (Implicit Association Test [IAT]) with “women are deceitful” and “women are prestige objects,” and the approach tendency (Approach–Avoidance Task [AAT]) toward women. Results showed that high-risk rapists had a lesser implicit notion of women as deceitful and more explicit benevolent sexism than the community controls. These differences seemed most prevalent in the subgroup of high-risk rapists without any relationship history. It is hypothesized that unrealistically positive attitudes toward women may lead to rejection and frustration, which may influence sexual offending.

对女性的敌意是性暴力的一个既定风险因素，并且经常被发现存在于容易发生性侵犯的男性身上。也有临床迹象表明，高危强奸犯可能对女性抱有更多矛盾的态度，包括强烈希望得到女性积极评价。我们调查了高危男性强奸犯 ( n = 42)、非性男性罪犯 ( n = 65) 和匹配的男性社区控制 ( n= 42），通过自我报告（对女性的敌意、仁慈的性别歧视、敌对的性别歧视）和隐性测量评估关联（隐性关联测试 [IAT]）与“女性是欺骗性的”和“女性是有威望的对象”，以及接近女性的倾向（接近-回避任务 [AAT]）。结果表明，与社区控制者相比，高风险强奸犯对女性欺骗性的隐含观念较少，而对女性的仁慈性别歧视更为明确。这些差异似乎在没有任何关系历史的高风险强奸犯亚组中最为普遍。据推测，对女性不切实际的积极态度可能会导致拒绝和沮丧，这可能会影响性犯罪。