33% of German men aged between 18 and 35 years considered “acceptable” give “occasionally” a slap to his female partner, according to a survey published this Sunday by the media group funke.
A similar percentage, 34%, of all men surveyed admit to having slapped or used physical force against a woman in a dispute or to “win“Your respect.
the survey of funkecarried out by the organization Plan International Deutschlandalso shows not only a high acceptance of violence against women, but also that the traditional distribution of male-female roles persists in many of the respondents, reports efe.
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Also a high percentage of the participants in the survey, 48%, admit to feeling “annoying” before gestures or expressions of open homosexuality in public life.
More than half of those surveyed admit, on the other hand, that they feel “weak” either “vulnerable” if he openly shows his feelings, despite the fact that around two thirds -63%- say they feel sad, alone or isolated. In the survey commissioned by that publication, a total of 1,000 men between the ages of 18 and 35 participated, who responded by digitally to the questionnaire.
Last November the German Government published official data on violence in Germany in intimate relationships. These indicate that in the last five years it rose by a 3.4% the number of victimswhich were in 2021 in more than 80% women, as reported today by the German Government.
Last year there were a total of 142,694 cases of violence within relationships, compared to 138,893 five years earlier, according to data from the Ministry of the Interior, which also indicates that in 2021 a total of 113 women and 14 men died as a result of them.
The ministry stressed that in “the vast majority” of cases the victims of this violence were women and in most cases the perpetrators were men: the 80.3% of the victims were them and 78.8% of those who committed them were them.
The German Minister of the Interior, Nancy Faeserdeclared in a statement regarding the data announced that: “we must never accept violence against women, we must face it. For us, as an open and democratic country, equality between men and women is an indispensable part of our social base of values “.
