What is Sexual Abuse?
Sexual abuse is when someone with less power is tricked, trapped, coerced, atau bribed into any type of sexual experience. Power imbalance may result from the perpetrator’s age, size, position, experience, atau authority and includes kissing, fondling, being forced to touch the abuser’s genitals, anal, oral atau vaginal sex, and non-contact acts such as exhibitionism, exposure to pornography, voyeurism atau sexual komen-komen atau looks.
If, as a child, anda experienced anything that felt sexual atau yucky with someone who had lebih power than you, anda were abused.
It was abuse:
■Even if anda were never touched
■Even if anda didn’t say no
■Even if it only happened once
■Even if anda only watched
■Even if it felt good
■Even if anda participated
■Even if it was a “game”
■Even if anda got something for it
■Even if it was with another child
■Even if it was suggestive comments
■Even if there was something about it that anda liked
■Even if anda didn’t tell
It’s common to compare your experience with another’s. If someone else’s abuse seems lebih severe than your own, that does not diminish your own suffering. There is lebih to abuse than the physical act. Sexual abuse is a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual violation. Often, the most painful part of abuse does not leave visible scars. Life-devastating effects can come from years of childhood rape atau five saat of being fondled. If anda suffered from abuse, anda deserve to heal.
Sexual abuse is when someone with less power is tricked, trapped, coerced, atau bribed into any type of sexual experience. Power imbalance may result from the perpetrator’s age, size, position, experience, atau authority and includes kissing, fondling, being forced to touch the abuser’s genitals, anal, oral atau vaginal sex, and non-contact acts such as exhibitionism, exposure to pornography, voyeurism atau sexual komen-komen atau looks.
If, as a child, anda experienced anything that felt sexual atau yucky with someone who had lebih power than you, anda were abused.
It was abuse:
■Even if anda were never touched
■Even if anda didn’t say no
■Even if it only happened once
■Even if anda only watched
■Even if it felt good
■Even if anda participated
■Even if it was a “game”
■Even if anda got something for it
■Even if it was with another child
■Even if it was suggestive comments
■Even if there was something about it that anda liked
■Even if anda didn’t tell
It’s common to compare your experience with another’s. If someone else’s abuse seems lebih severe than your own, that does not diminish your own suffering. There is lebih to abuse than the physical act. Sexual abuse is a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual violation. Often, the most painful part of abuse does not leave visible scars. Life-devastating effects can come from years of childhood rape atau five saat of being fondled. If anda suffered from abuse, anda deserve to heal.
