how sexual abuse affects women mentally and socially

Running Head : HOW SEXUAL ABUSE AFFECTS WOMEN MENTALLY AND SOCIALLY

How Sexual Abuse Affects Women Mentally and Socially (Your Name (Your School

Table of Contents

Title page . 1

Table of content 2

Introduction . 3

Sex abuse on women . 3

Effects of sexual abuse . 4

Mental effects . 6

Social effects . 8

Conclusion . 10

References . 11

Introduction

Sexual abuse has many mental and social effects on women who undergo the ordeal . Sexual abuse is one of the gender crimes which remain rampant in all parts of

the world . Sex abuse refers to any for of non-consensual psychical contact and may included rape , molestation , or any other . The rate of sexual crimes has continued to rise despite the various laws that have been put in place to deal with the situation . The volume of research that has been conducted on the issue reveals that there are devastating effects on the victims of sexual abuse . While many of use tend to look at sexual abuse in terms of the immediate effects , it is very clear that there are long term mental and social effects that these victims go through . This will explore closely mental and social effects of sexual abuse on women

Sex abuse on women

The issue of sexual abuse has been for a long time been viewed as a woman problem along . The recent studies shows that sexual abuse can be perpetrated by any person and women themselves have turned out to be perpetrators of sexual abuse on other women and...