The Troubling Way Men React To Sexual Harassment
Men are more likely than women to respond to sexual harassment with compensatory behaviors. That includes throwing up, taking laxatives and taking diuretics. Dreamstime This is the first study to find a link between harassment and disordered eating in men. When men and women get sexually harassed, they take it out on their bodies, according to a new study. And of the effects researchers looked for, the strongest wad in men, who were most likely to throw up or take laxatives in response to harassment. Although women are more likely to experience harassment and eating disorders, both happen to men, too. A few psychologists have previously found that women sometimes respond to harassment with disordered body image or eating, but no one's checked if the same associations happen in men, according to the authors of the new study, a team of psychologists from Michigan State University. The psychologists had 2,446 college students, including 731...