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Essay on Sexual abuse on women
Childhood sexual abuse can exist only in a society willing to allow such victimization and oppression toward powerless groups. The sexual abuse of children is an important issue in our society. The rates of sexual abuse are much higher among psychiatric inpatients.Although anger is common in the abused female, it is frequently pushed into the unconscious at the time of the abuse; when the abused becomes aware of her anger, it frequently has become rage.
She is unlikely to express her rage openly in a patriarchal society such as ours, owing to a role definition for women that does not easily permit such expression. Women who were sexually abused as children grow up repressing anger; as a result they may enter adulthood totally unaware of the rage that lies within them. Researchers reported that female childhood sexual abuse may cause negative attitudes about touch and sex that result in troublesome reactions to adult sex, such as one woman's response: "I got very angry with my husband if he wanted sex. Once I got so angry I bit him. I had no idea why I was that angry".
Many incest survivors probably struggle with their abuse unaided, and that a number of those who are in prisons, mental institutions, or working in prostitution have been influenced by a history of sexual abuse. Those who have been most affected by such abuse may be unable to verbalize their pain and anger. Child sexual abuse is a violation that affects every aspect of a child's life. Trusting relationships may be brought into question for a child once sexual boundaries have been violated. Children's perceptions of the world and those around them become distorted as a result of this trauma.Researches showed incest survivors had more anxiety, depression, and alcohol abuse than the women who did not have histories of sexual abuse.....
