Child sexual abuse involves using a child for sexual purposes. There is some confusion between the words child sexual abuse, child sexual assault, child molestation, incest, and rape, because they’re used interchangeably.
Oftentimes, I ask people to tell me what comes to mind when they hear these words. Here are the most common results:
1. Child sexual abuse, child sexual assault, and child molestation – a child being touched and fondled by an older person, usually an adult.
2. Incest – consensual sex between two family members.
3. Rape – someone, most often female, attacked and sexually penetrated by a stranger or sexually assaulted while on a date.
Yes, they’re all forms of sexual assault. However, based upon the descriptions above, the purpose of this website is to bring awareness to and share knowledge concerning the abuse that I endured and overcame – child molestation.
FACT: A child does not have to be sexually penetrated in order for child molestation to have occurred.
*SOME FORMS OF CHILD MOLESTATION:
- Fondling
- Asking/forcing a child to inappropriately touch another person
- Masturbation
- Intercourse
- Oral or anal sex
- Pornography
*Source: http://www.rainn.org/get-information/types-of-sexual-assault/child-sexual-abuse
In the book The Enemy Between My Legs, I mainly covered three different forms of child molestation:
1. Stephanie L. Jones’s scenario: fondled, kissed, rubbed, and asked to fondle, touch, grope and rub my body on others.
2. **Lisa’s scenario: primarily forced to perform oral sex, also fondled.
3. **Elizabeth’s scenario: sexual penetration.
**True stories with names changed.
