Women with disabilities and their lived experiences of physical, psychological and sexual abuse in Croatia

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-139
Author(s):  
Marina Milic Babic ◽  
Zdravka Leutar ◽  
Monica Dowling
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Women With Disabilities

Women With Disabilities’ Experience With Physical and Sexual Abuse

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara-Beth Plummer ◽  
Patricia A. Findley
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Women With Disabilities ◽  
Physical And Sexual Abuse

Disclosing Sexual Crime

2020 ◽  
pp. 95-110
Author(s):  
Mark Naylor
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Sexual Offence ◽  
Sexual Offences ◽  
Sexual Crime

Disclosing to someone that you have been the victim of a sexual offence has been described as stepping out of an airplane door and not being sure if your parachute is going to work. This is especially true of historic sexual offences, where the victim has lived with, and sometimes normalised their experiences, often over decades. The stigma of being a victim, the shame about not stopping the offence or making a disclosure sooner, the anxiety about how family, colleagues and partners will view you, all act as inhibitors to making disclosures; these continue even after disclosure is made. The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the authors lived experiences of investigating sexual offences and of making a disclosure of historic sexual abuse to his employer.

Lived Experiences of Grooming Among Australian Male Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malory Plummer
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
New South ◽  
Male Survivors ◽  
Legal Responses ◽  
Tentative Evidence ◽  
Representative Samples

Because child sexual abuse (CSA) is a pervasive social issue affecting up to one in five girls, and one in 10 boys, there have been significant developments in legal responses to the problem of CSA. One such response is to acknowledge the significance of grooming behaviors in the commission of child sex offenses by criminalizing behaviors that are engaged in with the intention of facilitating the sexual abuse of a child. However, grooming behaviors remain underresearched, and current knowledge is based largely upon the perspectives of offenders, with few studies analyzing how grooming is experienced by victims. The purpose of this article is to address key gaps in the grooming literature by analyzing the lived experiences of grooming from the perspectives of 11 adult male CSA survivors. Qualitative analysis revealed novel insights into the characteristics, stages, and impact of grooming for male survivors. The implications of the findings suggest that New South Wales’s (NSW) grooming legislation could better reflect the types of grooming behaviors engaged in by child sex offenders. Tentative evidence for enduring impacts of grooming also indicates the need for further qualitative research into men’s experiences of sexual grooming during childhood with larger and more representative samples.

scholarly journals “The Unheard Voices”: Lived Experiences of Sexual Abuse in Male Survivors

2020 ◽  
pp. 025371762097291
Author(s):  
Sarbopriya Das ◽  
Soma Pramanik ◽  
Deepshikha Ray ◽  
Debanjan Banerjee
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Emotional Challenges ◽  
Male Survivors ◽  
Long Term Impact ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Opposite Gender

Background: Victims of sexual abuse face unique emotional challenges. Among them, the male survivors of sexual assault have largely been neglected in the literature, being traditionally considered “against the norm” and symbolic of reduced masculinity. Methods: Qualitative approach was used to study the lived experiences of five (three heterosexual and two homosexual) male survivors of sexual abuse. In-depth interviews were conducted with consent, transcribed verbatim, and analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). Results: Commonality in the experiences of abuse (the identity of the abuser, nature of agony), perspectives of sharing the abuse history (lack of acceptance of “male” victimhood, the openness of the opposite gender, family reactions), and the long-term impact of abuse (withdrawal/change of interest as coping, sexual identity issues) emerged as the main superordinate theme (and subthemes). Conclusion: Society, with its patriarchy, often turns apathetic to male victimization in sexual abuse. Beliefs about masculinity and resultant trauma can cause a chronic social and psychosexual impact on the victims. More systematic research is needed to understand their perceptions, unmet needs, and experiences of recovery.

Women with Disabilities’ Perceptions of Sexuality, Sexual Abuse and Masturbation

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernesto Morales ◽  
Véronique Gauthier ◽  
Geoffrey Edwards ◽  
Frédérique Courtois
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Women With Disabilities

Women with disabilities: from discrimination and violence towards an ethics of reciprocity

Modern Italy ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Barbuto ◽  
Emilia Napolitano
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Reproductive Capacity ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Reciprocal Relations ◽  
Women With Disabilities ◽  
Disabled Women ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Peer Counselling

Since 2001 DPI Italia, the Italian section of Disabled People's International, has played an important role in a series of research projects in the European Commission's Daphne Programme on violence against women with disabilities. Several different types of violence have been identified, from sexual abuse to removal of women's control over their environment to invasion of their privacy in healthcare contexts to control of their reproductive capacity, particularly of women with intellectual disabilities. In the light of these projects, and of the CRPD's recognition of the multiple discriminations experienced by many women with disabilities, the article argues for a shift away from an ethics of care and dependency towards one of equal reciprocal relations between disabled women and others and to a bioethics grounded not in exceptional need but in everyday life. Peer counselling among disabled women is particularly important in effecting this shift.

GimpGirl grows up: Women with disabilities rethinking, redefining, and reclaiming community

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 1161-1179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Cole ◽  
Jason Nolan ◽  
Yukari Seko ◽  
Katherine Mancuso ◽  
Alejandra Ospina
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Women With Disabilities ◽  
Online Technologies ◽  
Community Archives ◽  
Online Tools ◽  
Reflective Narrative ◽  
Online Group

In this article, we undertake a reflective narrative inquiry into the GimpGirl Community (GGC), an online group of women with disabilities. We explore 12 years of GGC activity through community archives and auto-biographic narratives of GGC organizers, to understand how these women actively created a safe and open space for like-minded individuals, how community members used diverse online technologies for community building and social interaction, and how these online tools allow some members to experiment with their notions of self and identity outside dominant discourses. Our analysis of the lived experiences of GGC members reveals how they challenge the boundary between ‘abled’ and ‘disabled,’ and enact agency beyond their marginalization as women and as individuals with disabilities.

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