Sexual abuse in childhood

Sexual abuse is defined in terms of a variety of actions involving contact and noncontact maltreatment. Contact abuse is sexual contact with a youngster, with examples including molestation with genital contact, fondling, intercourse, oral or anal sex, and object intrusion. Noncontact abuse includes coercing the child to watch pornographic films or pictures, to observe sexual intercourse, to perform sexual activities, and to witness sexual exhibitionism (Lowenthal, 1996).

Such abuse is bad enough on its face, but it may have long-term consequences, some of which will only show up years later.

For instance, recent research on college-age women who had been sexually abused before age eighteen shows that these women tend to have less secure and trusting relationships with their partners and lower levels of interpersonal functioning and social adjustment than college women who were not abused. This study by Cornell University also suggests that women who were sexually abused as children show more signs of posttraumatic stress disorder than other women their age, especially if they had less secure and responsive relationships wit

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