Question:
How common is sexual abuse?
Evil Right Wing Facist
2008-09-24 23:50:54 UTC
I read somewhere one in five or one in four women will be sexually abused in their lifetime...where are these stats, and what about men, what are their stats too?
Four answers:
Eoghan.
2008-09-25 00:11:45 UTC
Using the same definitions and research tools, we could probably come up with a similar figure.



"The researcher, Mary Koss, hand-picked by hard-line feminist Gloria Steinem, acknowledges that 73 percent of the young women she counted as rape victims were not aware they had been raped. Forty-three percent of them were dating their 'attacker' again"



http://www.massnews.com/2003_Editions/5_May/050503_mn_umass_feminists_hate_men_rally.shtml



"The general tactic has been to expand the definition of rape so as to make it seem more prevalent: "…even verbal coercion or manipulation constitutes rape” (Roiphe, 1993, pp. 66–67) and “with such a sweeping definition of rape, I wonder how many people there are, male or female, who haven’t been date-raped at one point or another” (Roiphe, 1993, p. 79).



http://www.leaderu.com/real/ri9502/sommers.html



"Incredibly, when one feminist spokeswoman was challenged on the '1 in 4' statistic, she responded: "The statistics don't really matter... We're just trying to focus on the real issue here... not bicker about numbers"



http://www.deltabravo.net/files/ifmenhav.pdf



You are asking for stats, the original Domestic Violence/ Sexual abuse movement was hijacked by PC feminists and turned into and exclusively female as victim service. Great lengths were taken to exclude men. Wendy McElroy of Ifeminist has written about it here http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,197550,00.html



"Pizzey returned to England that same year for the book tour of her next book, "Prone to Violence," which once again ignited a violent reaction among feminists. Pizzey wrote that when she arrived in England for her book tour, she was "met with a solid wall of feminist demonstrators" carrying signs that read "ALL MEN ARE RAPISTS, ALL MEN ARE BATTERERS."



"The police insisted that I have an escort all round England for my book tour," Pizzey wrote in the Scotsman.



There is some reason to believe that "Prone to Violence" has been the target of a campaign of suppression by PC feminists. According to the web site Wikepedia, in 1996 an internet search of the world libraries that can be accessed through the Library of Congress uncovered only 13 listings for the book: an astonishingly low number for a pioneering work that caused a sensation.



Why would PC feminists nearly riot over a book and, then, ignore it?



Because Pizzey advanced a competing theory of domestic violence.



When viewed through the PC lens of class oppression, domestic violence is not an act of violence committed by one individual against another. It is an act committed by men that must be correctly understood within the larger context of women's class oppression.



"Prone to Violence" spelled out some of Pizzey's disagreements with that view.



Disagreement #1: Of the first 100 women who entered Chiswick, Pizzey found that over 60 percent were as violent or more violent than the men they were fleeing. In short, a significant percentage of the women were also batterers or otherwise active participants in the violence.



Disagreement #2: Pizzey developed the theory that many battered women were psychologically drawn to abusive relationships and they sought them out. To PC feminists, such analysis was tantamount to 'blaming the victim.'



Disagreement #3: She explained why the existing model of domestic violence shelters was ineffective. PC feminists were attempting then (and now) to secure ever greater financing for these operations. Sandra Horley, director of Chiswick in 1992, reportedly complained, "if we put across this idea that the abuse of men is as great as the abuse of women, then it could seriously affect our funding."



The problem is that the abuse industry is controlled by feminist groups and their agenda has been to present women as the only victims and because of this dishonest and onesided system all funding relating to abuse goes to self serving feminist groups that discriminate against men. I'd like to see feminists taken out of social services and have them replaced by fair minded rational people and an all inclusive abuse service with no political agenda put in place.
Mary-lou
2016-04-06 06:48:45 UTC
Many times when a child (not a toddler or teen) is engaged in some kind of sexual relationship with an older person (teen or older) the child enjoys not only the attention but also the good feelings from being touched etc. It is not until the situation is found out and the child is convinced by welfare psychiatrists what happened was bad or not acceptable did the child think other than the pleasure they were receiving. There are many case studies to this effect. / Sexual abuse or loving incest in a family; which is it? Many times the child is the instigator in family incest. Daughters often times have sexual desires towards their fathers the same is true with sons towards their mothers. Then too brothers and sisters often seek sexual pleasures from each other. From the reading I have done on the subject it is almost a 50 - 50 toss up if there is any actual pursuit in these relationships. In some cases this extends to aunts, uncles, cousins, and grand parents. When everyone concerned is consensual and no one is forced these incestrial relationships are very successful and enjoyed. Because of this more and more countries are decriminalizing adult consensual incest. / Yes, there is child sexual abuse, adults exploiting, attacking and using young children against their will or understanding. These instances need to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and sadly because of the society we live in today it is becoming more prevalent. / Society has to shoulder much of the blame for what is taking place today. The anti-sex stance that has been instigated far too long in churches and thus society has caused many if not most of the problems with sex today. Here is a quote by David Berg if society could have accepted this many hundreds of years ago we may not have the problems we have today. Sex was created and instituted by God in the very beginning! God is the Author of genuine pleasure, genuine happiness, genuine fleshly satisfaction, even sex! "All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made" ( John 1:3 ). Including your sexual organs, your body, and every part of you. If sex is a sin, then God is a sinner, because He made it and He created us to have it and enjoy it! Sex was not the Devil's idea!-It was God's. And the Devil is its arch-enemy because it encourages the growth of the Kingdom of God! The Devil tries to take the credit for it, and then turns around and condemns you for enjoying it. God created sex, not Satan! God is the One Who made those sexual organs and every single nerve that feels so good! He's the One Who dreamed up sexual pleasures and bodily contact and God Himself created that marvelous final explosion called the orgasm! God is the God of the body, the God of sex-He made your flesh in His image! `God created man in His Own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them'( Genesis 1:27 ). Praise God for sex! He created it!-by David Brandt Berg (compiled quotes, Daily Might 2:67) / How common is sexual abuse? too common. How common is loving family incest? The word here is LOVING not forced. The jury is still out. / This answer is with much research behind it, you may or may not agree with what I have said but it is all from research. I am only answering the question from a standpoint of knowledge.
NewDreams
2008-09-25 19:30:03 UTC
I don't think it is that common for physical sexual abuse. But I don't know what the research shows. Men are abused as well especially as boys.
Elvis O
2008-09-25 00:01:37 UTC
To a woman her husband asking for sex when shes not in the mood is sexual abuse. Same ole crap reports fems flood the world with.


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