NCJ Number
188619
Journal
Family Violence & Sexual Assault Bulletin Volume: 16 Issue: 4 Dated: 2001 Pages: 23-28
Date Published
2000
Length
6 pages
Annotation
This article discusses the use of the multicultural feminist treatment of gay and bisexual adult male survivors of sexual victimization experiences, with attention to the long-term effect of child sexual victimization experiences on gay and bisexual adult males.
Abstract
Practitioners who espouse a multicultural feminist treatment perspective have sought to establish a non-Eurocentric database, both in content and methodology, based on the phenomenological experiences of being male and female in our contemporary society. The equitable redistribution and reallocation of Euro-Americans' power and privilege to males and females of different ethnicities, socioeconomic classes, and sexual-orientation identities is at the foundation of the multicultural feminist treatment perspective. Multicultural feminist treatment is a viable psychotherapeutic intervention approach for the provision of culturally informed services for gay and/or bisexual adult male survivors of sexual victimization experiences. The feminist movement has evolved and advanced in its applications of this psychotherapeutic technique for culturally and ethnically diverse groups. The feminist value of "the personal is political" has served to provide a voice for this stigmatized, marginalized, and oppressed group to relate their phenomenological experiences of interpersonal violence and provide ammunition for the assertion that there are hidden costs that male adult survivors of sexual victimization experiences are paying in silence. There is a pressing need for increasing numbers of multicultural feminist practitioners to be trained and specialize in working with male survivors of sexual victimization experiences. 48 references