one percent of 2,040 respondents from around the Kingdom to a field study on sexual abuse said that “nude photography” was the most widespread form of sexual abuse, while 16 percent described husbands forcing their wives to have sexual intercourse as “very widespread” in society. The study, conducted by the Ro'ya Center for Social Studies in the Qassim town of Al-Rass on both sexes across the Kingdom, cited 15 percent of those surveyed as regarding rape of females and males as “very common” and 41 percent as believing it “happens rarely.” Sexual abuse, according to 15 percent of persons asked, is “very widespread”, while 20 percent said forcing wives into “unnatural, impermissible sexual practices” was rare. The organizers of the study said that 41 percent of answers expressed no opinion on how widespread some forms of sexual abuse were likely to be in Saudi society. The data of 1,900 samples was collected from questioners distributed at primary health centers, and further information was taken from 50 persons through interviews and 90 persons who had been victims of sexual abuse.
