Male sexual abuse

Romano, Eduardo; Luca, Rayleen V. De

doi:10.1016/s1359-1789(99)00011-7

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“…Greater social visibility of SV against boys can help victims who have difficulty reporting the abuse (Alaggia, 2005;Sorsoli et al, 2008), often because of doubts about their sexual orientation (Lisak, 1994;Romano & De Luca, 2001), as the SV is usually perpetrated by a male abuser (Hohendorff et al, 2012, Kristensen, 1996Pinto Junior, 2005;Pires Filho, 2009;Prado, 2006) that can make the boys believe they are homosexual. Prevailing standards of masculinity based on independence and stoicism (Sanderson, 2005) also contribute to the social invisibility of SV.…”

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“…Although fewer in number, studies with male victims, mainly adults with a history of SV in childhood, indicate that the difficulty for boys to reveal SV (Alaggia, 2005;Sorsoli, Kia-Keating, & Grossman, 2008) leads to consequences such as somatization, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, depression, anxiety and hostility, interpersonal difficulties, phobic anxiety, paranoid ideation and psychosis (Collings, 1995), stress (Steever, Follete, & Naugle, 2001), emotional problems (e.g., anger, helplessness and shame), cognitive distortions (e.g., selfblame and inability to consider their experience as violence), interpersonal difficulties (e.g., sense of betrayal, isolation) and problems related to sexuality and sexual orientation, which were more frequent in victims sexually violated by men (Lisak, 1994). Reviews of the international literature have corroborated these results (Romano & De Luca, 2001) and reported the characteristics of the victims, abusers and the SV itself (Holmes & Slap, 1998).…”

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Documentary Analysis of Cases of Sexual Violence Against Boys Reported in Porto Alegre

Hohendorff

Costa

Habigzang

et al. 2014

Paidéia (Ribeirão Preto)

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Abstract:There are few studies regarding sexual violence (SV) against boys in Brazil. Considering this fact, the present study aimed to investigate cases reported in the General Coordination of Health Surveillance of Porto Alegre (POA GVCS) between 2009 and 2011. A total of 239 notification forms were analyzed according to: characteristics of the victim (i.e., age, race, education level, presence of disability, SV consequences); of the SV (i.e., occurrence year, notification year, notifying establishment, context, place of occurrence, type, occurrence of penetration, number of episodes, others forms of violence, number of perpetrators, final classification -whether confirmed or not -and referrals); and of the abusers (i.e., gender, relationship to the victim, use of alcohol/drugs). There was predominance of white boys between seven and 12 years of age, victims of intrafamilial SV of two or more episodes perpetrated by male perpetrators. These results can be used in planning preventive and therapeutic interventions specific to boys who are victims of SV.

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Documentary Analysis of Cases of Sexual Violence Against Boys Reported in Porto Alegre

Hohendorff

Costa

Habigzang

et al. 2014

Paidéia (Ribeirão Preto)

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“…Respecto de las variables que pudiesen explicar tal fluctuación, se aprecia que los síntomas variaron en relación con el género de los adolescentes abusados sexualmente. En coherencia con lo reportado por estudios previos (Fontanella et al, 2002;Guerra et al, 2013;Romano & de Luca, 2001) las mujeres puntuaron más alto en las escalas de depresión, ansiedad y TEPT que sus pares varones. Esto no es indicador de que el abuso sexual sea inocuo en los varones, sino que muestra que los varones se verían afectados de diferente manera.…”

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“…A nivel internacional se han realizado esfuerzos para conocer las razones de la variabilidad de reacciones al abuso. En este contexto se ha estudiado el rol de diversos factores en el desarrollo de la sintomatología en las víctimas de ASIA, que incluyen variables como el género (Fontanella, Harrington, & Zuravin, 2002;Romano & de Luca, 2001), el apoyo so-Una de las variables asociadas a la sintomatología que ha recibido mayor atención es la gravedad del abuso sexual, aun cuando no se tiene completa claridad de su rol. Por un lado se ha señalado que es posible asignar de forma "objetiva" mayor o menor gravedad a un acto abusivo.…”

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Sintomatología en víctimas de abuso sexual: ¿son importantes las características “objetivas” del abuso?

Guerra

Farkas

2015

RevPsicología

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Resumen: Las víctimas de abuso sexual presentan mayor sintomatología que la población general, aun cuando su intensidad es altamente variable. Los abusos más graves (frecuentes, violentos, con penetración) serían los que se asociarían a mayor sintomatología, no obstante, la evidencia no es concluyente. El objetivo del estudio fue describir la sintomatología en víctimas de abuso sexual y evaluar su relación con la gravedad del abuso. Participaron 143 adolescentes entre 12 y 17 años (83 víctimas de abuso sexual y 60 sin antecedentes de abuso) que respondieron a escalas de depresión, ansiedad y estrés postraumático. Ambos grupos presentaron niveles similares de depresión y ansiedad, pero los adolescentes con antecedentes de abuso presentaron mayor estrés postraumático. En el grupo con antecedentes de abuso la sintomatología varió según la curva normal, pero la gravedad del abuso no explicó dicha variación. Únicamente las mujeres presentaron mayor depresión, ansiedad y estrés postraumático que los varones, y las víctimas de abuso extrafamiliar presentaron mayor estrés postraumático que los victimizados dentro de sus familias. Se cuestiona la idea de "objetivar" la gravedad del abuso y se discute acerca de la necesidad de estudiar los factores que mediarían la relación entre la gravedad de los abusos y la sintomatología.

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“…The confidential nature of this study enabled 117 young people to self-report CSA with more females reporting CSA compared with males. Studies suggest male survivors are less likely to seek help (Briere and Elliott 2003) and that CSA in males is a neglected area of study (Romano and De Luca 2001), which leads to reduced prevalence figures. While there are studies suggesting young males disclose CSA less often than young females (Jackson et al, 2013), they also suggest it becomes harder to disclose as they grow older: however, the current study found young males became more able to report CSA as they grew older.…”

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Participatory Action Research: Confidentiality and Attitudes of Victimized Young People Unknown to Child Protection Agencies

Matthew¹,

Barron

Hodson

2019

Int. Journal on Child Malt.

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This study explores views of young child abuse survivors, whose abuse was unknown to child protection, about confidentiality. Survivors involved with charity Eighteen And Under (n = 185) were invited to participate. A total of 140 participated. Eight aged 12-20, two males and 6 females chose involvement as researchers and participants and 132 aged 11-30, 25 males, 114 females and one non-gendered chose participant involvement. Eighty-five percent (n = 117) were survivors of child sexual abuse and 15% (n = 23) were survivors of child abuse. Utilizing participatory action research, researchers designed and analyzed qualitative and quantitative data gathered through surveys, interviews, focus groups, online-chats and graffiti walls. A social construction thematic approach analyzed data. Inter-rater reliability was maximized through independent data analysis. The results showed that participants, particularly males and under 16 s, wanted greater protection of confidentiality. Males were less likely to disclose sexual abuse. Two superordinate themes were identified: (a) limited confidentiality led to fear of loss of control and trust and (b) retractions of abuse and higher levels of confidentiality led to talking openly, feeling respected and believed and a sense of control and empowerment. Two further themes were identified from young researcher reports: improved self-esteem and positive life changes. In conclusion, young people unknown to services want greater confidentiality than is currently offered. Participative research was emancipatory, and further participatory research with young CSA survivors is needed. Keywords Confidentiality. Child sexual abuse. Young people. Participatory. Child protection Prevalence rates of child sexual abuse (CSA) vary depending on definitions, populations and methodologies. Incidence figures for CSA range from 0.1 (Morgan and Kena 2018) to 7% (Flatley 2016); compared with prevalence statistics with a range of 11.3

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Male sexual abuse

Cited by 167 publications

References 54 publications

Documentary Analysis of Cases of Sexual Violence Against Boys Reported in Porto Alegre

Documentary Analysis of Cases of Sexual Violence Against Boys Reported in Porto Alegre

Sintomatología en víctimas de abuso sexual: ¿son importantes las características “objetivas” del abuso?

Participatory Action Research: Confidentiality and Attitudes of Victimized Young People Unknown to Child Protection Agencies

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