Male Victims of Abuse

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This paper explores the behavior patterns of heterosexual males who have experienced abusive relationships. The dynamics of the abusive relationship and decisions made by the males to remain in the relationship are of significant interest, as understanding these relationships shall help in establishing empathy with male victims of abuse during the communications processes. The paper explains that this is achieved through a study of the literature on abuse.

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"Abuse and sexual partnerships have been studied in the behavioral sciences, both as a means of understanding why persons in abusive relationships remain willing to participate in a negative relationship and to attempt to find strategies to help provide solutions for the abuser and victim. Traditionally, the literature on abusive relationships has focused on heterosexual partnerships in which the male is the abuser or on homosexual partnerships in which one male abuses the other. Abusive heterosexual relationships in which the female is the abuser and the male is the victim is studied with less frequency, in large part because relationship dynamics of this nature are fewer in number than other forms of relationship abuse (Das Dasgupta, 2002)."

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