Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law, Richard Price Building, Swansea University , Swansea, United Kingdom.
J Child Sex Abus. 2020 Nov-Dec;29(8):965-983. doi: 10.1080/10538712.2020.1841351. Epub 2020 Nov 13.
With evidence suggesting that females are more likely to be victims of child sexual abuse (CSA), much of the literature - including that on disclosure - focuses on females. Thus, male victims remain "under-studied". Given this, the aim here is to contribute to the scant knowledge base on the sexual abuse of males and disclosure by focusing on males whose voices are even more rarely heard than those in the general male population: those who have perpetrated CSA. The men whose stories are told here had been convicted of, and imprisoned for, CSA in the United Kingdom (UK). They were part of a sample of 101 incarcerated males, 40 of whom reported at interview that they had been sexually abused in childhood. Eighteen of those 40 men are focused on here as they provided some detail as to whether they had disclosed that abuse in childhood or adulthood, the responses they had received, and also why they had not disclosed. Their narratives shed some much-needed light on the nature of sexual abuse experienced by males, its onset and duration, sexual re-victimization, relationships with perpetrators, the diverse nature of disclosure, the extent to which victims disclose and when, the responses received, and why they do not tell. Little is known of these aspects of male CSA. The implications of the findings are considered together with future research directions.
有证据表明，女性更有可能成为儿童性虐待（CSA）的受害者，因此大部分文献——包括有关披露的文献——都集中在女性身上。因此，男性受害者仍然“研究不足”。考虑到这一点，这里的目的是通过关注那些声音比一般男性群体更难听到的男性受害者，为关于男性性虐待和披露的知识基础做出贡献：那些实施 CSA 的男性。这里讲述的男性曾在英国（UK）被判犯有 CSA 罪并被监禁。他们是 101 名被监禁男性中的一部分，其中 40 名在接受采访时报告说他们在童年时期遭受过性虐待。在这 40 名男性中，有 18 名男性被关注，因为他们详细说明了他们是否在童年或成年时披露了这种虐待、他们收到的回应，以及他们为什么没有披露。他们的叙述揭示了一些关于男性所经历的性虐待的本质、其开始和持续时间、性再受害、与施虐者的关系、披露的多样性、受害者披露的程度和时间、收到的回应以及他们为什么不告诉的细节。对于这些男性 CSA 的方面，我们知之甚少。研究结果与未来的研究方向一起进行了考虑。
