title: History of child sexual abuse and adult sexual fantasies.
abstract: The study investigated the hypothesis that women with a history of childhood sexual abuse would report different sexual fantasies from women with no childhood sexual abuse. Women with a history of abuse had more force in their fantasies, had more sexually explicit fantasies, began having sexual fantasies at a younger age, and had more fantasies with the theme of being under someone's control. Women with a history of childhood physical abuse did not have a similar pattern. It was suggested that the sexual fantasies may reflect the sexualizing effect of childhood sexual experiences and that fantasies of the abusive experience may become intrusive.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb 60115-2892.
authors.forename: S R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Gold
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000523:psychology*; D005201:Fantasy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires