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The Long-Term Effects of Childhood Sexual Abuse Childhood sexual abuse has been correlated with higher levels of depression, guilt, shame, self-blame, eating disorders, somatic concerns, anxiety, dissociative patterns, repression, denial, sexual problems, and relationship problems.

Depression has been found to be the most common long-term symptom among survivors. Survivors may have difficulty in externalizing the abuse, thus thinking negatively about themselves (Hartman et al., 1987). After years of negative selfthoughts, survivors have feelings of worthlessness and avoid others because they believe they have nothing to offer (Long et al., 2006). Ratican (1992) describes the symptoms of child sexual abuse survivors’ depression to be feeling down much of the time, having suicidal ideation, having disturbed sleeping patterns, and having disturbed eating patterns Survivors often experience guilt, shame, and self-blame. It has been shown that survivors frequently take personal responsibility for the abuse. When the sexual abuse is done by an esteemed trusted adult it may be hard for the children to view the perpetrator in a negative light, thus leaving them incapable of seeing what happened as not their fault. Survivors often blame themselves and internalize negative messages about themselves.

Survivors tend to display more self-destructive behaviors and experience more suicidal ideation than those who have not been abused (Browne & Finkelhor, 1986). Body issues and eating disorders have also been cited as a long-term effect of childhood sexual abuse. Ratican (1992) describes the symptoms of child sexual abuse survivors’ body image problems to be related to feeling dirty or ugly, dissatisfaction with body or appearance, eating disorders, and obesity. Survivors’ distress may also result in somatic concerns. A study found that women survivors reported significantly more medical concerns than did people who have not experienced sexual abuse. The most frequent medial complaint was pelvic pain (Cunningham, Pearce, & Pearce, 198. Somatization symptoms among survivors are often related to pelvic pain, gastrointestinal problems, headaches, and difficulty swallowing (Ratican, 1992).

Stress and anxiety are often long-term effects of childhood sexual abuse. Childhood sexual abuse can be frightening and cause stress long after the experience or experiences have ceased. Many times survivors experience chronic anxiety, tension, anxiety attacks, and phobias (Briere & Runtz, 1988, as cited in Ratican, 1992). A study compared the posttraumatic stress symptoms in Vietnam veterans and adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. The study revealed that childhood sexual abuse is traumatizing and can result in symptoms comparable to symptoms from war-related trauma (McNew & Abell, 1995). Some survivors may have dissociated to protect themselves from experiencing the sexual abuse. As adults they may still use this coping mechanism when they feel unsafe or threatened (King, 2009). Dissociation for survivors of childhood sexual abuse may include feelings of confusion, feelings of disorientation, nightmares, flashbacks, and difficulty experiencing feelings.

Denial and repression of sexual abuse is believed by some to be a long-term effect of childhood sexual abuse. Symptoms may include experiencing amnesia concerning parts of their childhood, negating the effects and impact of sexual abuse, and feeling that they should forget about the abuse (Ratican, 1992). Whether or not survivors can forget past childhood sexual abuse experiences and later recover those memories is a controversial topic. Some therapists believe that sexual abuse can cause enough trauma that the victim forgets or represses the experience as a coping mechanism. Others believe that recovered memories are false or that the client is led to create them (King, 2009) Survivors of sexual abuse may experience difficulty in establishing interpersonal relationships. Symptoms correlated with childhood sexual abuse may hinder the development and growth of relationships.

Common relationship difficulties that survivors may experience are difficulties with trust, fear of intimacy, fear of being different or weird, difficulty establishing interpersonal boundaries, passive behaviors, and getting involved in abusive relationships (Ratican, 1992). Feinauer, Callahan, and Hilton (1996) examined the relationship between a person’s ability to adjust to an intimate relationship, depression, and level of severity of childhood abuse. Their study revealed that as the severity of abuse increased, the scores measuring the ability to adjust to intimate relationships decreased. Sexual abuse often is initiated by someone the child loves and trusts, which breaks trust and may result in the child believing that people they love will hurt them (Strean, 1988 as cited in Pearson, 1994). Kessler and Bieschke (1999) found a significant relationship between women who were sexually abused in childhood and adult victimization.

Many survivors experience sexual difficulties. The long-term effects of the abuse that the survivor experiences, such as, depression and dissociative patterns, affect the survivors sexual functioning. Maltz (2001a, as cited in Maltz, 2002) gives a list of the top ten sexual symptoms that often result from experiences of sexual abuse: “avoiding, fearing, or lacking interest in sex; approaching sex as an obligation; experiencing negative feelings such as anger, disgust, or guilt with touch; having difficulty becoming aroused or feeling sensation; feeling emotionally distant or not present during sex; experiencing intrusive or disturbing sexual thoughts and images; engaging in compulsive or inappropriate sexual behaviors; experiencing difficulty establishing or maintaining an intimate relationship; experiencing vaginal pain or orgasmic difficulties (women); and experiencing erectile, ejaculatory, or orgasmic difficulties (men; p. 323). A study done on the prevalence and predictors of sexual dysfunction in the Untied States revealed that victims of sexual abuse experience sexual problems more than the general population. They found that male victims of childhood sexual abuse were more likely to experience erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation, and low sexual desire, and they found that women were more likely to have arousal disorders (Laumann, Piel, & Rosen, 1999).

https://www.counseling.org/docs/dis...ng-term-effects-of-childhood-sexual-abuse.pdf

 

I prefer a bullet to the back of the head, but hey, if strangulation is your preferred method for removing such scumbags from the gene pool I have no problem with it whatsoever.

 

Would I actually do that or be able to do that? I don't know but after speaking with "you know who", I don't see that I would have much difficulty in accomplishing the task!

 

Why? He has the same right to say the same thing over and over again just as you do.

 

Children who are molested are likely to molest other children.

 

No we don't. Any sex without informed consent is assault, regardless of age. If someone gets me drunk and then has sex with me, that is assault, because I am no longer capable of making rational informed decisions. No matter what the reason one can't give informed consent, it is an assault upon them to engage in sexual activities with them.

As is, you have now shown that you are incapable of providing even the most basic of arguments and support. You, sir...and I use that term loosely....are on ignore.

 

It's still 12 in some states in USA 2017: https://discover-the-truth.com/2017...o-marry-by-law-in-new-hampshire-america-2017/

 

I don't have the gut instinct to strangle them. I have the urge to beat the hell out of them. However, the urge is roughly the same--to get rid of predators.

 

You are mistaken

If homosexuals could do all that through the democratic process they would just pass new laws with popular support

But homosexuals did not have popular support so they took the undemocratic approach of finding judges to dictate to the public

Pedophiles will use the same trick to get what they want too

 

Every branch of government should be accountable to the people who are supreme even to the black robe supremes themselves

 

Except that measuring public support for gay marriage is not a hard science no matter how much the libs claim that they have public opinion down to a science.

Just ask hillary

 

How about emotionally ready, or simply look at any picture of a grown man ( or woman) next to a 4 yr old.

No scientific study needed.

 

Topics/discussion on a forum isn't illegal.
However, threats online, or anything done involving someones child online IS!!!!

 

Opinion polling and election prediction polling have totally different methodology.

 

Opinion polls can be "pushed" just like election polls

 

Which is why you use neutral polling sources with a high reputation for scientific accuracy.

 

Sex typically makes harm when one didn't want it but did so anyway.

 

If only the lying liberal pollsters were trying to make honest polls.

But they are political operatives pushing an agenda

 

In my opinion it's neither, it's a preference. Now my preference for the perfect woman would have Anna Nichole Smith's body and an Italian/Latino face. But I don't rape or molest every woman I meet who has those attributes. For reasons unknown to me, pedophiles seem aggressive with kids compared to adults. Might be because kids don't know better. But if I'm right or wrong, the punishment for acting on those preferences should be severe.

 

Um..that's rather the point.

It was mainstream. It was normalized. Of course there wasn't the concept of 'pedophilia'. You have to consider it deviant to call it a -philia.

I think you aren't capable of understanding just how easy a lack of morality allows a societal backslide to the normalization of things like buggering kids.

 

>>MOD EDIT Rule 9<< are you talking about? In one post you are bleating that this Landcover poster isn't a pedophile, and - in the next - you're blubbering about how he is, and you're his psychiatrist and helping him work through his temptations to 'save a kid'.

Stop posting lunacy.

 

Just FYI....Conspiracy Theory threads are over that way.

 

One of the reasons it was "normalized" was that they had much shorter lifespans and that was the age frame when adulthood was considered to have begun. As our lifespans have increased so has the time that we consider "childhood". It wasn't a lack of morality.

 

Have you had sex with a child?

 

Right.

Sounds rational.

Or rationalization. I lose track.