Rape was most common within intimate relationships, with a quarter of men admitting they had raped a wife or a girlfriend. The combined sample prevalence of intimate partner rape in men who had ever had a partner was 24 per cent, ranging from 13 per cent in Bangladesh to 59 per cent in Papua New Guinea, according to the United Nations report.

Almost a quarter of men surveyed admitted to committing at least one rape. Of those who admitted rape, just under half said they had done so more than once. For the study conducted in January 2011-December 2012, 10,178 men were interviewed from nine sites in Asia and the Pacific across six countries: Bangladesh, China, Cambodia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Sri Lanka.