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Participants with age-based CSA experiences who perceived their sexual experience as non-negative, noncoercive, and nonabusive were similar to non-CSA participants in their levels of adjustment. Participants with perception-based CSA experiences reported higher levels of mal-adjustment than non-CSA participants.
Handheld shot of happy homosexual men walking and hugging. Slow motion of handsome homosexual men walking down narrow street of old town in Europe, talking. Of these men, 24 (49%) perceived their sexual experiences as negative, coercive, and/or abusive and thus were categorized as perception-based CSA. Handsome Gay Men Videos - Download 375 stock videos with Handsome Gay Men for FREE or amazingly low rates New users enjoy 60 OFF. Fifty men (26%) reported sexual experiences before age 17 with someone at least 5 years older, constituting CSA according to the age-based definition. Men's descriptions of their CSA experiences were coded from taped interviews.
The sample consisted of 192 gay and bisexual men recruited from a randomly selected community sample. We compared the conventional definition of CSA based on age difference with a modified definition of CSA based on perception to evaluate which definition best accounted for problems in adjustment. This study examined childhood sexual abuse (CSA) in gay and bisexual men.
