This is NOT true. Sexual abuse can be touching, looking, forcing the child to touch or look at an adult and pornographic pictures or movies being taken or forced to watch. Other types of abuse include oral or anal sex and even sexually suggestive remarks. So many times a survivor who tells of the abuse later in life will be criticized for not telling as a child when in actual fact they did tell. They just didn t verbalize it or if they did, no one listened.
Behavioral changes are often one of the most common signs.
On the same note, a seemingly unreasonable fear or refusal to go to certain places. Some children will runaway from home whereas others will turn to drugs or alcohol. With many, eating disorders can be traced back to sexual abuse. Some will over eat to intentionally gain weight in the hopes they will no longer be attractive to their abuser. Others will feel they have no control over what happens to their body so they attempt to take control by means of bulimia or anorexia.