Sexual Abuse Along with Alcoholic Illusion
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This research aimed to 1) develop a game theoretical model of sexual abuse and find the empirical equilibrium; and 2) determine factors affecting the behavior of female victims and male offenders associated with sexual harassment. This paper used the Survey of Alcoholic Illusion (SAI) as an essential tool to collect data from 200 Thai female participants and 200 Thai male participants whose ages ranged from 20 years to infinite years from a non-random convenience sample at nightlife areas in Bangkok from 2021 to 2022 with logistic regression analysis. The research results were found as follows: 1) the highest joint probability could be some intoxicated females’ gestures of drunkenness possibly stimulating sexual abuse perpetrated by males with a conditional probability of 0.32, and the lowest conditional probability could be the sane condition for the female who sends the signaling for tipsiness to the male who is not behaving sexually abusively, with a joint probability of 0.01; 2) the factors affecting the behavior of female victims are frequency of alcoholic consumption with an odd ratio of 2.90, sexual preference with an odd ratio of 1.215, level of love and belonging with an odd ratio of 4.292, and the opinion of physical appearance with an odd ratio of 4.351. On the other hand, the frequency of alcoholic consumption, with an odd ratio of 2.359, and the opinion of physical appearance, with an odd ratio of 1.816, could have been influencing the male offenders. When the important variables for males and females were compared, it became clear that the significant variables for females, sex preference and levels of love and belonging, were insignificant for males. The difference in sensitivity between males and females is probably the primary factor; females react strongly to sentiments of love, belonging, and sexual inclination, while males may not exhibit high sensitivity.
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