<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6027b1c7-ec53-4372-a769-ba1937b1b1ab/AF735AD6-00F7-41CD-B099-22F775DCFDEA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=11765" href="http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=11765" style="font-size: 11px;">www.feminist.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=11765"><DIV> According to a survey by the Medical Research foundation (MRC), one in four men in South Africa have admitted to committing rape. Of these, almost half claim that they have assaulted more than one individual. <A target="_blank" href="http://www.mg.co.za/article/2009-06-18-quarter-of-men-in-south-africa-admit-rape" linkindex="27">Seventy-three percent</A> said they carried out an attack before the age of 20.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=11765"><DIV> In a statement to the <A target="_blank" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8107039.stm" linkindex="28"><I>BBC</I></A>, Professor Rachel Jewkes, who led the research with the MRC, said "We know that we have a higher prevalence of rape in South Africa than there is in other countries. And it's partly rooted in our incredibly disturbed past and the way that South African men over the centuries have been socialized into forms of masculinity that are predicated on the idea of being strong and tough and the use of force to assert dominance and control over women, as well as other men."</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=11765">The study also found that men who commit violence against women are less likely to use condoms and are twice as likely to be HIV-positive</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AF735AD6-00F7-41CD-B099-22F775DCFDEA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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