Child Sexual Abuse It is frightening to realize how widespread sexual abuse is in our society and yet how strong the denial of it is.1 "Don't waste your time talking about what an aberration it is and how unlikely it is " just get to the place where you understand that one of the things humans do is have sexual contact with children,"" says [Gavin] de Becker, author of Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane).2 Sex with children is a crime. It has long been illegal for adults to have sex with children in the U.S. But [thanks to a 1994 federal law,...

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Sexual Sexual Abuse is an involvement of a child in a sexual activity that s/he does not fully comprehend, is unable to give informed consent to, or is not developmentally prepared for, such as: Contact Non-contact • Kissing or holding in a sexual manner • Touching and fondling genital areas • Forcing a child to touch another person's genital areas • Forcing a child to perform oral sex • Vaginal or anal intercourse and other sexual activity • Biting a child's genital area • Incest, rape, sodomy, indecent exposure • Sex with...

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"Sexual Violence- While the crimes of "rape- and "incest- have been on the statute books for hundreds of years, it was not until the 1970s that "sexual violence- was more fully explored and developed as a concept. Feminists drew attention to the fact that rape (then conceptualised as sexual intercourse without consent) was a crime committed by men against women, not only in dark back-alleys but in homes, workplaces, and in the context of intimate and family relationships (see Brownmiller 1975). Feminism responsible for debunking some of the myths about rape • women "ask for it...

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This may happen during rape when a women is forced to have sex, is physically beaten while sex or is strangled during sex. ... The teen dating violence may range from forced sex, to physical abuse, and emotional abuse. ... They often times are forced to have sex while being held down against their will. ...

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Sexual abuse, although it includes a constant demand of sex, can also include criticizing the victim in sexual terms, calling the victim names such as "whore" and "frigid", forcing the victim to witness sexual acts with other people, and using threats to back up demands for sex. ... The sad, ugly truth about domestic violence is that stories of incidents are the same whether it is between a heterosexual relationship or a homosexual relationship. Ana, a twenty-five-year-old transgender, depicts the cycle of violence in her story with great precision: [When] I started datin...

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Cultural Relativism Vs Universal Children's Rights Even though most moral codes are linked to cultural & society, does not mean we have to accept cultural relativism when it comes to child abuse in any form. We cannot deny that cultural differences are real and are important in analyzing and j...

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