“Would you tell under circumstances like that?”: Barriers to disclosure of child sexual abuse for men.

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“Traditional abuse research suggests that fears associated with gender roles and stigmatization act as barriers to disclosing sexual victimization for men in particular (e.g., Easton et al., 2014).”

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“Negative disclosure experiences may reduce the likelihood of the process progressing – e.g., reporting to authorities – and future disclosure in the event of re-victimization (Easton et al., 2014; Jackson et al., 2017).”

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“Vast majority of participants (94.6%) were sexually abused by another male.”

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“Ten years old was average age of CSA onset.”

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“Ten categories of barriers were classified into three domains: (1) sociopolitical: masculinity, limited resources; (2) interpersonal: mistrust of others, fear of being labeled “gay,” safety and protection issues, past responses; and (3) personal: internal emotions, seeing the experience as sexual abuse, and sexual orientation.”

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“Duration of sexual abuse broke down into: 30.2% less than 6 months, 32.3% 6 months to 3 years, and 34.3% more than 3 years.”

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“Where at one time factors examined and identified were predominantly of intrapersonal factors of child victims, knowledge construction has shifted to fuller social–ecological, person-in-environment explanations”

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“These authors suggest that predominant gender norms around masculinity reinforce the tendency for male victims of CSA to blame themselves for the abuse, resulting in no disclosure.”

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“Gender: Males may be less likely to disclose in childhood/adolescence, fear of being seen as homosexual and as a victim, females experience more self-blame and anticipation of being blamed and/or not believed”

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“A number of studies have recently focused on CSA disclosures with male victims, since males have been an understudied population”

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“Easton, Saltzman, and Willis (2014) have been developing gender-specific modeling of disclosure examining male disclosures. Their proposed model groups male disclosures into barrier categories as determined by individual factors, interpersonal issues, and factors that are sociopolitical in nature.”

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“Findings related to cultural barriers included themes of children’s voices not being heard leading to silencing, the normalization of the sexualization and objectification of girls and women, and the perpetuation of hypermasculinity in men—all acting as barriers in terms of stigma to disclosure (Alaggia, 2005, 2010; Easton et al., 2014).”