Male Sexual Dysfunction and the Perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence

Terrence D Hill; Ginny Garcia-Alexander; Katelyn Sileo; Chantal Fahmy; Alexander Testa; Rebecca Luttinen; Ryan Schroeder

doi:10.1177/10778012231174348

Male Sexual Dysfunction and the Perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence

Violence Against Women. 2023 May 21:10778012231174348. doi: 10.1177/10778012231174348. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Terrence D Hill¹, Ginny Garcia-Alexander², Katelyn Sileo³, Chantal Fahmy⁴, Alexander Testa⁵, Rebecca Luttinen⁶, Ryan Schroeder⁷

Affiliations

¹ Department of Sociology, One UTSA Circle, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA.
² Department of Sociology, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA.
³ Department of Public Health, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA.
⁴ Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA.
⁵ Department of Management, Policy and Community Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, San Antonio, TX, USA.
⁶ Department of Demography, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA.
⁷ Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, USA.

PMID: 37211748
DOI: 10.1177/10778012231174348

Abstract

We contribute to our understanding of the social epidemiology of intimate partner violence (IPV) by developing a mediation model that frames IPV as an outcome of male sexual dysfunction (performance anxiety and erectile dysfunction) and the mechanisms of masculine discrepancy stress (the perceived failure to conform to internalized normative expectations of masculinity) and anger. Our mediation analyses of recently collected data from the 2021 Crime, Health, and Politics Survey (CHAPS), a national probability sample of 792 men, confirmed that sexual dysfunction was indirectly associated with the perpetration of any IPV, physical IPV, and sexual IPV through the compound path of masculine discrepancy stress and anger.

Keywords: anger; erectile dysfunction; intimate partner violence; masculinity; sexual dysfunction.