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    illnesses and disorders that go either unknown or unseen.One that seems to go misunderstood is sexual compulsive behavior, also known as sexual addiction. Other ways to refer to it is sexual dependency, hypersexuality, nymphomania(for females) and satyriasis(for males). Sexual addiction is the phenomenon in which people can not control their sexual behavior and urges. Those who have this disease is obsessed with sexual thoughts and don 't have the ability to control their urges. Some people misunderstand

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    Child Sexual Abuse: Change of Conversation Child sexual abuse has been a worldwide concern since it seems to be a very serious issue that many children face. Child sexual abuse is the involvement of a child in a sexual activity in order to fulfill a physical pleasure or a financial profit of the child. The debate on child sexual abuse has shifted through the years from the early 2000s to 2016. Before 2010, the conversation was about informing educators and parents about the issue and how could they

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    Childhood Sexual Abuse

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    Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse The presenting problem of childhood sexual abuse is a multidimensional trauma. Occurring at such a young age, CSA can have physically, sexually, psychologically, and emotionally detrimental outcomes (Calvert, Kellett, & Hagan, 2015). Depression, maladaptive social behaviors, PTSD, and self-blame have all been reported as psychological reactions to CSA (Gold, 1986; Alexander et al., 1989; Willows, 2009). The very definition of childhood sexual abuse is constantly up

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    Child sexual abuse is a big social problem. We know about sexual abuse, but do we know the different effects sexual abuse causes? Volunteering at Change Agents Network and being around the troubled youth can teach someone a lot. Sexual abuse can drastically change someone’s life. Just imagine how it can effect a child’s mind mentally and then think about how not addressing the issues at hand can affect them in adulthood. Through much research and practice it was stated that childhood sexual abuse

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    Introduction In recent years, due to the church sex abuse scandal, childhood sexual abuse has become one of the most highly publicized crimes in the United States. Unfortunately, despite this newfound interest in the scandalous topic of abuse, incest and more common sexual abuse cases involving family continue to be overlooked by society and the media. Understandably, intra-familial sexual abuse is a delicate and complex subject to acknowledge and dissect. Yet, by ignoring the subject entirely,

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    SUB-THEME-VIOLENCE AGAINST GIRL CHILD TITLE- CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE IN INDIA: A SOCIO-LEGAL ISSUES ISHA KANSAL STUDENT OF B.A.LL.B. (4th SEMESTER) DISHA LAW COLLEGE RAIPUR, CHHATTISGARH ADDRESS OF AUTHOR- Mr. Neeraj Kansal B-18/15, Sec-3 Udya society, Tatibandh Raipur (C.G.), 492001 meetishakansal@gmail

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    Sexual Abuse In Slavery

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    the very meaning of race. However, many of these topics usually do not reveal a side of slavery that happens on a regular basis and that is sexual abuse. People seem to avoid sexual abuse because it is challenging to provided evidences that the abuse is not consensual. However, this topic strongly impacts the way slaves life is shape daily. Therefore,sexual abuse will help deepen our understanding of the institution of slavery and its effect on our society as a whole by revealing that slaves must faces

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    Child Sexual Abuse Essay

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    Child Sexual Abuse Sexual abuse to a child at times is confusing to the family. Families who are affected by sexual abuse to a child tend to have a difficult time talking about the abuse. About one out of every four girls and one out of every five boys are sexually abused by the time they are 18 years old. Sexual abuse to children happens across every socioeconomic status, ethnic, cultural, religion and education. Getting treatment for a victim of child sexual abuse is a difficult process

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    Sexual abuse victims often have a difficult time overcoming the trauma. Victims struggle overcoming the trauma and heightening their self-worth. In individual therapy, clients often like to live in the past which makes it difficult to learn how to cope in the here and now. Survivors, unless they 've had therapy, often do not connect their present ways of coping and affective states with their experience of childhood sexual abuse. For many clients, shame, anxiety, depression, and concerns about

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    Clergy sexual abuse cases received significant media and public attention across the world, especially in the United States and Ireland. In 2004, the John Jay report stated a total of 4,392 priests and deacons against whom allegations of sexual abuse had been made. In response to the attention, members of the Church's hierarchy have contended that media coverage was excessive, disproportionate and unnecessary that such abuse takes place in other religions and institutions and not just the Roman Catholic

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