Sister-sister incest: data from an anonymous computerized survey.
Retrospective data were entered anonymously by 1,521 adult women using a computer-assisted self-interview. Thirty-one participants were victims of sister-sister incest, 40 were victims of brother-sister incest, 19 were victims of father-daughter incest, 8 were victims of sexual abuse by an adult female (including one mother), and 232 were victims of sexual abuse by an adult male other than their father before reaching 18 years of age. The rest (1,203) served as controls. The victims of sister-sister incest had significantly more problematic outcomes than controls on many measures as adults. Victims of sister-sister incest were more depressed and more likely than controls to be distant from the perpetrator-sister and to have traded sex for money, experienced an unplanned pregnancy, engaged in four different types of masturbation, and engaged in 13 different same-sex behaviors. Our findings were consistent with other reports of early eroticization and persistent hypereroticization of incest victims.
Department of School Psychology, Marshall University Graduate College, Huntington, WV 25303-1600, USA. stroebel@marshall.edu
Sandra S
SS
Stroebel
Stephen L
SL
O'Keefe
Karen
K
Griffee
Shih-Ya
SY
Kuo
Keith W
KW
Beard
Martin J
MJ
Kommor
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003068:Coercion; D003625:Data Collection; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D054541:Family Conflict / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D018452:Homosexuality, Female / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007179:Incest / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D008418:Masturbation / Q000523:psychology; D008875:Middle Aged; D011247:Pregnancy; D049168:Pregnancy, Unplanned / Q000523:psychology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D012752:Shame; D035781:Siblings / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult