Poverty is linked to both the perpetration of sexual violence and the risk of being a victim of it. Several authors have argued that the relationship between poverty and perpetration of sexual violence is mediated through forms of crisis of masculine identity.Morrell R, ed. Changing men in Southern Africa. Pietermaritzburg, University of Natal Press, 2001.Wood K, Jewkes R. "'Dangerous' love: reflections on violence among Xhosa township youth". In: Morrell R, ed. Changing Men in Southern Africa. Pietermaritzburg, University of Natal Press, 2001.
