The "Missing Perpetrator" and The Sexual Coercion Playbook

The "Missing Perpetrator" and The Sexual Coercion Playbook

From Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦‬ by by SC Zoomers

June 8, 2026 · 30 min · Season 7 · Episode 13

About this episode

The episode discusses a landmark study on sexual coercion, highlighting the lack of reported perpetrators and the need for better questions in research.

Send us Fan Mail 📖 Read: https://helioxpodcast.substack.com 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd5BbCEeC3Z6dp-nNjWRbBw 🎙️Available for Broadcast: https://exchange.prx.org/group_accounts/253118-heliox_where_evidence_meets_empathy For 40 years, researchers found millions of victims of sexual coercion — and almost no perpetrators willing to say so. They weren't missing. We were asking the wrong questions. A landmark 2024 study by O'Sullivan & Ronis surveyed 2,689 ordinary com...

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Host: SC Zoomers

Topics covered

  • sexual coercion
  • research study
  • victimization
  • perpetrators
  • social questions

Keywords

  • sexual coercion
  • victims
  • perpetrators
  • research study
  • O'Sullivan
  • Ronis
  • social issues

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