Sexual Contact in Childhood, Revictimization, and Lifetime Sexual and Psychological Outcomes

Archives of Sexual Behavior

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1117-1131

  Das, Aniruddha ^a   Otis, Nicholas ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Childhood sexual contact; Eroticization; Forced sex; Mental health; NSHAP; Revictimization

Indexed keywords

AGED; CHILD; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; CRIME VICTIM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; RAPE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL HARASSMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; CRIME VICTIMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; RAPE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL HARASSMENT;

EID: 84947423847     PISSN: 00040002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10508-015-0620-3     Document Type: Article

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