Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) continues to be a public health challenge. The prevalence of experiencing CSA is higher among men who have sex with men (MSM) than the general population. CSA has been linked to compulsive sexual behavior (CSB) among varying populations but has not been examined a...
In November 2023, I visited a Mathematics Department at a respected research university in the USA at the invitation of a professor (I will be calling him Zacharia) who works there. We initially met at a conference where we were both invited as plenary speakers by my former colleague and c...
This chapter is a first-hand report of American model and activist Morgan Barbour’s experience with receiving and resisting online harassment. It contains frank and often disturbing accounts of abuse, ranging from prepubescent ‘pussy photo’ requests..
There were no changes in reported lifetime intimate partner sexual abuse prevalence estimates found over the past century. The most recent birth cohort reported the lowest rates of 12-month prevalence estimates for intimate partner sexual abuse, lifetime rates of non-partner sexual abuse, and also...
"Swept away" Abuses against sex workers in China. 2013 [http://www.hrw.org/reports/2013/05/14/swept-away-0]. Kelly CA, Soler-Hampejsek E, Mensch BS, Hewett PC. Social desirability bias in sexual behavior reporting: evidence from an interview mode experiment in rural Malawi. Int ...
bi-sexual, trans, and intersex individuals are at an increased risk of being the targets of online abuse [38]. These findings suggest that members of the sexual and gender diverse community are at a higher risk for experiencing sexualized violence, however, further research is needed in this...
in 5 women and 1 in 14 men in the USA have reported being victims of sexual violence. (National Sexual Violence Resource Center). Sadly, we don’t have as comprehensive statistics in the Caribbean but we can all appreciate that while the USA is far larger, our stats in St Lucia without...
and filed lawsuits in the face of an unrepentant RC church. To date $5 to $6 billion has been paid out by churches in the USA over the past two decades. Private school teacher abuse has been outed again because groups of adults came together and the multiple allegations were less easy ...
Human security shifts the traditional concept of security from interstate conflict and the absence of war to the security of the individual [1]. In doing so, it recognizes that ‘the basic rights of people, not merely the absence of military conflict between states, are fundamental to world st...
Sexual violence is often positioned as a heterosexual experience, perpetrated by men against women. Research from the USA has revealed university sexual vi