The “cycle of abuse” gets a stick in the spokes.
The sexually abused-sexual abuser hypothesis posits that persons, especially males, who are sexually abused as children are at particular risk of sexually abusing others later in life. We tested this hypothesis by prospectively examining associations between maltreatment and offending in a birth cohort of 38,282 males with a maltreatment history and/or at least one finalized offense. We examined these associations within the context of the wider birth population. Proportionally few boys were the subject of official notifications for sexual abuse (14.8% of maltreated boys, and 1.4% of the birth population); proportionally very few of these sexually abused boys (3%) went on to become sexual offenders; and, contrary to findings typically reported in retrospective clinical studies, proportionally few sexual offenders (4%) had a confirmed history of sexual abuse.
Oops.
And later on in the report:
“In summary, the weight of evidence presently points to a likely specific link between sexual abuse and sexual offending for males, but not for females.”
How about a study linking sexual abuse and orientation? They’ll never be able to handle the truth on that.
redpop
You mean gay priests, rite?
Who rape little boys, so RELIGION would be exposed for what it is, can’t have that rite fc?
NAMBLA would love this to be true.
The simple fact is that any of this kind of abuse, male or female, causes years of mental anguish, even if the person is able to keep the outside looking ok. Teach a kid that something physically feels good even if it emotionally feels like hell and they know it’s wrong, and that kid will be living with these battling urges for the rest of his/her life.
Brandon
Yup, and I know her! She’s a devout alcoholic.
The giant gaping flaw in this meta-analysis is the “official notifications of sexual abuse”:
While I understand the authors’ concerns about the reliability of retrospective self-reporting, ignoring that this methodology represents under-reporting so serious it effectively makes the whole meta-analysis garbage makes me suspicious of their motives.