Items:

1. Rape is the most humiliating of all criminal acts.
2. The worst thing that could happen to a woman would be to be raped.
3. Women who have been raped will eventually forget about it and carry on with their lives.*
4. A woman who has been raped will have difficulty establishing a fulfilling relationship with a man.*
5. Women who get raped probably deserve it.
6. Women want to get raped.*
7. Rapists should be castrated.
8. If a woman has a gun and is approached by a potential rapist she has the right to kill him.
9. Male rape by another male is no big deal.*
10. The rape of a child is not harmful if not blown out of proportion.*

Response Options:
5-point Likert scale
Strongly disagree - 1
Strongly agree - 5

* Items are reverse scored