[sharktrager]

I believe the 39% child abuse rate is low.

This survey relies on self-reporting. To too many, they no longer viewed what happened to them as abuse. Further, it seems they excluded those who were abused by other, older, minors.

I recall seeing surveys where the question was not asked in this manner show much higher results. They asked, separately, the age of first sexual experience and age of first sexual partner. They showed, on average, that the first experience was below the age of 15, i believe, with an average age of first partner greater than 26. Granted, those can be skewed, but they did determine that the majority of these men were, in fact, abused as children by adults.

Unfortunately, only less than scholarly sources continue to provide these facts, and I am unwilling to use them to support my possibly faulty memory.

[tuesday afternoon]

This survey relies on self-reporting. To too many, they no longer viewed what happened to them as abuse.

I've heard that, too, that self-reporting can be skewed that way.

Further, it seems they excluded those who were abused by other, older, minors.

That I didn't know.

Also, see my post 120