Relevance of other person flirting with you when deciding whether they will agree to have sex with you Relevance of the other person removing some of their clothes when deciding whether they will agree to have sex with you Relevance of the other person removing some of your clothes when deciding whether they will agree to have sex with you Consent is about agreeing to sex through choice Consent is about having the freedom to choose to have sex Consent needs to be verbally agreed Being drunk affects one’s capacity to consent to sex Person A is moderately drunk; person B is severely drunk and too drunk to give consent. They have sex. Next day B states rape has occurred. Should A be held responsible for rape? A significant number of rapes reported to the police are false allegations Being drunk when having sex increases the likelihood of a false rape allegation Undecided 1.89 (1.15 - 3.11) Relevant Irrelevant 1.83 (1.24 - 2.71) Reference Undecided 0.82 (0.27 - 2.47) Relevant Irrelevant 2.29 (0.91 - 5.72) Reference Undecided 3.42 (1.10 - 10.62) Relevant 3.04 (1.15 - 8.00) Unsure Unsure No Yes No Yes No Unsure Yes Disagree Agree Disagree Agree Disagree Agree Disagree Reference 0.32 (0.11 - 0.90) 0.30 (0.13 - 0.69) Reference 1.44 (0.80 - 2.60) 0.78 (0.48 - 1.26) Reference 0.71 (0.45 - 1.10) 0.63 (0.44 - 0.90) Reference 0.53 (0.35 - 0.79) Reference 0.70 (0.48 - 1.02) Reference 1.75 (1.20 - 2.54) Reference Undecided 0.47 (0.19 - 1.13) Undecided 0.50 (0.32 - 0.79) Undecided 1.38 (0.89 - 2.14) Undecided 0.77 (0.29 - 2.02) Agree 1.79 (0.99 - 3.24) 6.28 9.28 9.15 0.13 3.13 5.44 4.52 5.07 8.09 4.68 8.09 8.60 1.48 1.06 6.44 2.35 6.32 9.83 2.87 9.48 9.15 3.43 8.61 2.04 8.61 7.30 0.28 3.71 10.18 0.006 0.012 0.002 0.010 0.718 0.077 0.066 0.033 0.024 0.018 0.030 0.004 0.014 0.224 0.304 0.040 0.125 0.012 0.007 0.090 0.002 0.002 0.064 0.014 0.153 0.003 0.026 0.597 0.054 Gunby et al. BMC Public Health 2012, 12:216 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/12/216 Page 6 of 12 Table 2 Multivariate comparison of male and female students’ alcohol consumption and sexual activity; male predictive factors Variable Category Adjusted odds ratio (95% confidence interval) Irrelevant Reference Wald P 10.24 0.006 All the variables in Table 1 were entered into the model; only variables (or variable strata) significantly related to the dependent variable are retained in the logistic regression model. N = 994. Hosmer and Lemeshow Goodness-of-Fit Test: X2 = 4.74, P = 0.79. respondents to agree that a significant proportion of rapes reported to the police are false allegations (AOR = 1.75, 95% CI = 1.20-2.54). The remaining three variables in the logistic regression model differed significantly between males and females but the 95% CI for the strata level analysis contained the value one (Table 2). Different variables distinguished whether a female or male student had experienced alcohol-related non-con- sensual sex since the age of 14 (Tables 3 and 4). A sig- nificantly greater proportion of females that had experienced alcohol-related non-consensual sex were hazardous drinkers (82.2%) compared to the females that had not experienced alcohol-related non-consensual sex (62.9%, AOR = 2.82, 95% CI 1.96-4.06). When given a hypothetical scenario where two people that are dis- proportionately intoxicated have sex and the more severely drunk person claims to have been raped, a greater proportion of women who had experienced alco- hol-related non-consensual sex agreed this was rape (AOR = 1.51, 95% CI = 1.03-2.19). Altogether, three