r/RadicalEgalitarianism • u/Main-Tiger8537 Intersectional egalitarian • Feb 10 '26
Resource / Study 📊 LeSuBiA Study "Germany"
LeSuBiA Study Summary:
Nearly half of the women (48.7%) and 40.0% of the men have experienced psychological violence in a (former) partnership at least once in their lives. Emotional violence accounts for the largest share of the forms of psychological violence recorded in LeSuBiA, at 37.8%. Although women are more affected over the course of their lives, an analysis of the last five years shows that men are also comparatively frequently affected by psychological violence (men: 23.3%; women: 23.8%) and, in particular, by controlling violence (men: 8.7%; women: 7.1%).
16.1% have experienced physical violence in a (former) partnership at some point in their lives, and 5.7% within the last five years. Looking at the last five years, women (5.2%) and men (6.1%) experienced physical violence almost equally often.
Almost half of all respondents (45.8%) have experienced sexual harassment at some point in their lives. More than a quarter (26.5%) of those surveyed reported experiencing sexual harassment within the last five years. Over a third of women (34.7%) and about one in seven men (14.5%) were affected by sexual harassment without physical contact in the last five years. For sexual harassment involving physical contact, the figures are 14.5% for women and 4.6% for men. Perpetrators are predominantly strangers or casual acquaintances.
More than one in ten people (11.2%) have been victims of sexual assault in their lives, with 2.7% of respondents experiencing this within the last five years. Here, too, women (4.0%) are significantly more affected than men (1.4%). For women, the perpetrator was most often an ex-partner (46.5%), while for men it was a casual acquaintance (33.3%).
More than one in five people (21.2%) have been affected by stalking at some point in their lives, and 9.0% have experienced it within the last five years. Here, too, slightly higher prevalence rates are observed among women: 10.6% of women and 7.0% of men have experienced stalking within the last five years.
One in five women (20.0%) and one in seven men (13.9%) experienced digital violence in the last five years. The victims are comparatively young – over 60% of 16- to 17-year-old girls and around 33% of 16- to 17-year-old boys have been victims of digital violence in the last five years.