Shame in Sexual Abuse

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Several research papers and studies indicate that a number of negative behavioral deficiencies demonstrated by victims of sexual abuse root from shame of what happened to them. In view of this, while there are other consequences that sexual abuse may bring, this paper finds it essential and critical to study the effects of shame to a victim's life as caused by sexual abuse. This paper provides a qualitative analysis of shame in sexual abuse. In detail, it presents an analysis on the nature, scale, and impact of shame as associated to sexual abuse.

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"Clinical factors indicate that most of the negative consequences of sexual abuse originates from shame. To deal with the psychological, behavioral, emotional, and social effects of sexual abuse would mean to first deal with shame. However, due to the power of shame, many sexually abused victims frequently choose to hide their experiences rather than to live in what they perceived to be shameful to their life if they tell their unfortunate experience of being sexually abused."

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