Using data from the 2010 to
2011 wave of the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project-a nationally
representative probability sample of older U.S. adults-this study queried
distinctive linkages of mild and of severe childhood sexual contact with
lifetime sexual and psychological outcomes among women and men aged
60-99 years (N = 3283).
In addition, we examined stratification
of these associations by sexual revictimization (forced sex and/or harassment).
Among women, sequelae of childhood contact seemed consistently negative for the
mild rather than severe variant-but only in the co-presence of
revictimization-a pattern that may have remained obscured in previous analysis
of event effects.
Men's results suggested lifelong eroticizing but not
psychological effects of this early experience-with the co-presence of
revictimization potentially enhancing rather than lowering their mental health.
Overall, findings appeared to reflect gendered patterns of risk-with mild
childhood contact potentially channeling women but not men into revictimization
and finally to elevated sexuality and poor mental health in late life.
Early
sexual experiences should thus be conceptualized not as singular events, but as
part of a lifelong career with regularities and rhythms that may influence
their pathogenic potential.
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- 1Department of Sociology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, H3A 2T7, Canada. aniruddha.das@mcgill.ca.
- 2Department of Sociology, McGill University, Room 712, Leacock Building, 855 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC, H3A 2T7, Canada. aniruddha.das@mcgill.ca.
- 3Department of Sociology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, H3A 2T7, Canada.
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