NCJ Number
245162
Journal
Journal of Child Sexual Abuse Volume: 22 Issue: 6 Dated: 2013 Pages: 695-719
Date Published
2013
Length
25 pages
Annotation
Retrospective data were entered anonymously by 1,521 adult women using a computer-assisted self-interview.
Abstract
Thirty-one participants were victims of sister-sister incest, 40 were victims of brother-sister incest, 19 were victims of father-daughter incest, 8 were victims of sexual abuse by an adult female (including one mother), and 232 were victims of sexual abuse by an adult male other than their father before reaching 18 years of age. The rest (1,203) served as controls. The victims of sister-sister incest had significantly more problematic outcomes than controls on many measures as adults. Victims of sister-sister incest were more depressed and more likely than controls to be distant from the perpetrator-sister and to have traded sex for money, experienced an unplanned pregnancy, engaged in four different types of masturbation, and engaged in 13 different same-sex behaviors. The findings were consistent with other reports of early eroticization and persistent hypereroticization of incest victims. Abstract published by arrangement with Taylor and Francis.