Citation

Gold SR. Violence Vict. 1991; 6(1): 75-82.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb 60115-2892.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1991, Springer Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1859808

Abstract

The study investigated the hypothesis that women with a history of childhood sexual abuse would report different sexual fantasies from women with no childhood sexual abuse. Women with a history of abuse had more force in their fantasies, had more sexually explicit fantasies, began having sexual fantasies at a younger age, and had more fantasies with the theme of being under someone's control. Women with a history of childhood physical abuse did not have a similar pattern. It was suggested that the sexual fantasies may reflect the sexualizing effect of childhood sexual experiences and that fantasies of the abusive experience may become intrusive.

Language: en