Sexual Harassment and Sexual Revictimization Over the last two decades, research studies have documented significant rates of child sexual abuse among both female and male children. Estimates for female children under the age of 18 who have experienced at least one incident of abuse ranges from 1 in 4 to 1 in 2.5 among nonclinical samples (Kohn, 1987; Wyatt, 1985). Estimates for male children are approximately 1 in 8.
There are a number of effects that have been associated with childhood sexual abuse, including psychological, sexual, and interpersonal difficulties (Briere, 1992). One additional problem that has been associated with early abuse is sexual revictimization.
Sexual revictimization has been variously defined by researchers in the field to include different types of abusive sexual interaction (Wyatt, Guthrie, Notgrass, 1992) in either childhood of adulthood. A wide range of findings have been reported, probably at least partly associated with the range of definitions, ages, and methodologies utilized. Findings tend to indicate relational disturbances or problems, however, at a greater rate for those who have been sexually revictimized.
One experience that has not generally been studied as an aspect of sexual revictimization is sexual harassment. In general, sexual revictimization has been seen as more directly, or overtly sexual, involving body contact of exposure to genitalia. However, sexual harassment represents an experi
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