What is Sexual Abuse?
Sexual abuse is when someone with less power is tricked, trapped, coerced, অথবা bribed into any type of sexual experience. Power imbalance may result from the perpetrator’s age, size, position, experience, অথবা authority and includes kissing, fondling, being forced to touch the abuser’s genitals, anal, oral অথবা vaginal sex, and non-contact acts such as exhibitionism, exposure to pornography, voyeurism অথবা sexual মতামত অথবা looks.
If, as a child, আপনি experienced anything that felt sexual অথবা yucky with someone who had আরো power than you, আপনি were abused.
It was abuse:
■Even if আপনি were never touched
■Even if আপনি didn’t say no
■Even if it only happened once
■Even if আপনি only watched
■Even if it felt good
■Even if আপনি participated
■Even if it was a “game”
■Even if আপনি got something for it
■Even if it was with another child
■Even if it was suggestive comments
■Even if there was something about it that আপনি liked
■Even if আপনি didn’t tell
It’s common to compare your experience with another’s. If someone else’s abuse seems আরো severe than your own, that does not diminish your own suffering. There is আরো to abuse than the physical act. Sexual abuse is a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual violation. Often, the most painful part of abuse does not leave visible scars. Life-devastating effects can come from years of childhood rape অথবা five সেকেন্ড of being fondled. If আপনি suffered from abuse, আপনি deserve to heal.
Sexual abuse is when someone with less power is tricked, trapped, coerced, অথবা bribed into any type of sexual experience. Power imbalance may result from the perpetrator’s age, size, position, experience, অথবা authority and includes kissing, fondling, being forced to touch the abuser’s genitals, anal, oral অথবা vaginal sex, and non-contact acts such as exhibitionism, exposure to pornography, voyeurism অথবা sexual মতামত অথবা looks.
If, as a child, আপনি experienced anything that felt sexual অথবা yucky with someone who had আরো power than you, আপনি were abused.
It was abuse:
■Even if আপনি were never touched
■Even if আপনি didn’t say no
■Even if it only happened once
■Even if আপনি only watched
■Even if it felt good
■Even if আপনি participated
■Even if it was a “game”
■Even if আপনি got something for it
■Even if it was with another child
■Even if it was suggestive comments
■Even if there was something about it that আপনি liked
■Even if আপনি didn’t tell
It’s common to compare your experience with another’s. If someone else’s abuse seems আরো severe than your own, that does not diminish your own suffering. There is আরো to abuse than the physical act. Sexual abuse is a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual violation. Often, the most painful part of abuse does not leave visible scars. Life-devastating effects can come from years of childhood rape অথবা five সেকেন্ড of being fondled. If আপনি suffered from abuse, আপনি deserve to heal.