Citation

Holmes WC. J. Interpers. Violence 2009; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0886260508329122

PMID

19252075

Abstract

[SafetyLit note: As of 2019 this article has not yet been assigned to an issue and the DOI returns an error. There remains a 2009 record for this article in the PubMed database.]

This study compares risk behavior in men with no history of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) with men with CSA histories that had occurred at sexual debut versus after debut. Using random-digit dialing from half the zip code areas of Philadelphia, information is retrieved from 197 men about CSA; first willing sex; and other sexual, drug, and legal histories. Forty-three (22%) participants have CSA histories, 35 at debut and 5 after debut. When their risk behaviors are compared to men without CSA (n = 154), the at-debut subgroup is found to have the highest rates, the after-debut subgroup is found to have the lowest rates, and the no-CSA subgroup rates are in the middle. This ordering is significant (p

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