Scholarly studies, reports, and best-practices on the prevention of sexual violence often omit a key component of the scholarly literature: that verbal and/or physical resistance (i.e., self-defense strategies) enable most women to stop most assailants in most sexual assault situations, and that training in self-defense prevents assault in a way that is empowering rather than restrictive or victim-blaming. Despite the numerous empirical studies that support the efficacy of women’s verbal and physical resistance against sexual assault, much of the literature on sexual assault prevention fails to include the scholarship on self-defense. In this article, we posit that the empirical work on self-defense is sometimes ignored naively, because of a misunderstanding of what self-defense is, and sometimes ignored willfully, due to an ideological conflict with it. Excluding work on self-defense in the sexual assault prevention literature omits relevant scholarship in a way that prioritizes ideology over evidence, ironically fueling benevolent sexism, and limits the effectiveness of policies and practices around sexual assault prevention that are translated from the literature. We underscore the importance of integrating the evidence for self-defense more prominently in the sexual assault prevention literature so that organizations, policy makers, activists, clinicians, students, and the public consider and implement self-defense is a viable strategy for women in preventing or thwarting sexual violence.

关于预防性暴力的学术研究、报告和最佳实践往往忽略了学术文献的一个关键组成部分：口头和/或身体抵抗（即自卫策略）使大多数女性能够在大多数性行为中阻止大多数攻击者攻击情况，以及自卫训练以授权而不是限制或责备受害者的方式防止攻击。尽管有大量实证研究支持女性口头和身体抵抗性侵犯的功效，但许多关于性侵犯预防的文献都没有包括关于自卫的学术研究。在本文中，我们假设关于自卫的实证工作有时会因为对自卫的误解而被天真地忽视，有时会被故意忽视，由于与它的意识形态冲突。在性侵犯预防文献中排除关于自卫的工作以一种将意识形态置于证据之上的方式忽略了相关的学术研究，具有讽刺意味的是，助长了仁慈的性别歧视，并限制了从文献中翻译的有关性侵犯预防的政策和实践的有效性。我们强调在性侵犯预防文献中更突出地整合自卫证据的重要性，以便组织、政策制定者、活动家、临床医生、学生和公众考虑和实施自卫是女性预防性侵犯的可行策略或阻止性暴力。具有讽刺意味的是，它助长了仁慈的性别歧视，并限制了从文献中翻译而来的关于预防性侵犯的政策和实践的有效性。我们强调在性侵犯预防文献中更突出地整合自卫证据的重要性，以便组织、政策制定者、活动家、临床医生、学生和公众考虑和实施自卫是女性预防性侵犯的可行策略或阻止性暴力。具有讽刺意味的是，它助长了仁慈的性别歧视，并限制了从文献中翻译而来的关于预防性侵犯的政策和实践的有效性。我们强调在性侵犯预防文献中更突出地整合自卫证据的重要性，以便组织、政策制定者、活动家、临床医生、学生和公众考虑和实施自卫是女性预防性侵犯的可行策略或阻止性暴力。