• Victimization has primatily been seen as a female problem for many years
• Estimated 1 and 6 boys will be physically, sexually, and/or emotionally abused by the time they reach age 18
• Most males are sexually abused by other males, but the number of males repoting abuse by women is increasing

Frequency of Male Assaults

• Male victims comprise 25% to 35% of the case loads of clinicians working in the Sexual abuse area
• estimated that between 46,000 and 92,000 male children are abused in the United States each year

Effects of Male Sexual Assault

• Violent and intense nightmares
• Fear that everyone is a potential attacker
• Shame, Anger, nad Guilt
• Feelings of helplessness
• Fear of intimacy
• Flashbacks
• Self abuse
• Depression
• Low self-esteem
  

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