Sexual violence committed by men is to a large extent rooted in ideologies of male sexual entitlement.

By the mid-1960's, there were still almost 250 all-male colleges, heirs to a long tradition of male entitlement going back to the beginnings of higher education in America.

Yet the elements common to so many recent stories are here: a sense of male entitlement; a woman who was subconsciously attracted by it, then repelled; a community and official response pervaded by fandom.

Feminists argue that sexual violence committed by men is often rooted in ideologies of male sexual entitlement.

The issues of male entitlement, of the celebrity-jock sensibility about women, have yet to be dealt with in ways that young men need to understand.

"The culture is a story of male entitlement."

Is lacrosse, said to be the fastest-growing collegiate men's sport, becoming another athletic sanctuary of male entitlement, football for the more affluent?

Risk factors specific to sexual violence perpetration include beliefs in family honour and sexual purity, ideologies of male sexual entitlement and weak legal sanctions for sexual violence.

Progressives and others would argue, though, that mosque conditions are merely a symptom of a widespread sense of male entitlement following centuries of male privilege in the intellectual and political power centers of Islam.