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Sexual Abuse, Sex Trafficking, and Rape
Published in S Paige Hertweck, Maggie L Dwiggins, Clinical Protocols in Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, 2022
Jacqueline Sugarman, S. Paige Hertweck
Sexual abuse involves a wide spectrum of activities and encompasses fondling, oral and/or anogenital contact, as well as noncontact abuses (exhibitionism, voyeurism) and child exploitation (pornography, prostitution). Incest occurs when a perpetrator has sexual intercourse with a victim who is related by blood or marriage. Laws can vary by state.
Rules and Metarules
Published in R. D. Laing, The Politics of the Family, 2018
There is a law against incest. We can talk about the law against incest, rather more freely than we can talk about incest: commonly there is a rule against talking about incest, in front of the children especially: but not an absolute rule against talking about whether or not there is a law against incest.
Gender differences in the development of narratives of resilience and disclosure
Published in Sally V Hunter, Childhood Sexual Experiences, 2018
However, in this study 12 out of 22 men and women lived in the same home as the adults with whom they had sexual contact, which may be over-representative of those who have been sexually abused by family members.8 Family relationships are known to be highly complex for those people who have experienced incest in childhood. Several of these men and women described having enmeshed relationships with the parent with whom they had early sexual contact. Some came from sexually permissive family backgrounds which left them feeling very confused and with no real sense of right or wrong around this sexual contact. Others came from sexually repressive, religious family backgrounds. When Leo tried to tell his Catholic mother what had happened to him, ‘all she saw was the badness in it’ and, by implication, in Leo himself.
Evaluation of Incest Cases: 4-Years Retrospective Study
Published in Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2020
Osman Celbis, İsmail Altın, Nusret Ayaz, Turgay Börk, Serdar Karatoprak
Incest is a specific type of sexual abuse, defined as sexual relations between a man and woman, a woman and woman, or a man and man, who are close relatives, and as such are legally, morally and religiously forbidden from marriage (Yildirim, Ozer, & Bozkurt et al., 2014). The prevalence of incest cases is reported to vary between 5% and 62% according to culture, the source of the report, and geographic location (Yildirim et al., 2014). The exact data of prevalence are not known. It is thought that the data that are available are only the tip of the iceberg as incidents are not reported for reasons such as it remaining a family matter, the victim’s fear, the thought that they will not be believed and societal pressures (Çavlin Bozbeyoğlu, Koyuncu, Kardam, & Sungur, 2010; Seto, Babchishin, Pullman, & McPhail, 2015).
Considerations of Dissociation, Betrayal Trauma, and Complex Trauma in the Treatment of Incest
Published in Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2020
David M. Lawson, Sinem Akay-Sullivan
In addition, incest adversely affects a secure attachment with both parents (Stroebel et al., 2012) and later with a romantic partner (Westerlund, 1992). Stroebel et al. found that 84% of a sample of incest victims felt distant from both parents or from their fathers; significantly higher than either a group of non-incest participants or a CSA by a non-father male group. In some cases, abusive parents display consistent forms of affection, attention, and bonding, which results in many children aligning their loyalties with the abuser, resulting in a distorted view of caring (deYoung & Lowry, 1992). Interestingly, many female survivors report being less concerned about the abusive father than their relationship with their mother who did not protect them (Pettersen, 2013).
Betrayed and Broken: A Study of the Experiences of Victims of Child Sexual Abuse in the Ga Community in Accra, Ghana
Published in Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2019
Ummu Markwei, Kwaku Osei-Hwedie
Incest in the Ghanaian context can be defined as a sexual act between two or more blood relatives (Nukunya, 2003). Section 105 of the Criminal Code (Amendment) Act, 1998 (Act, p. 554) states that, incest is an offense which is punishable by imprisonment of not less than three years and not more than 25 years. Nevertheless, incest was identified as a common form of child sexual abuse in this study. Incest, in most communities in Ghana, is regarded as a taboo and treated with shame and disgust. In view of this, most incest cases are cloaked in silence and secrecy in order to protect the family’s name. Disclosure is believed to bring shame and stigmatization not only to the persons involved, but to the entire family.