While most people think of incest and child molestation as sexual abuse, there are other, more subtle forms, that can still have very negative and long term psychological and interpersonal effects. Thoug h often unrecognized, the exposure of children to pornography and adult sexual behavior is also sexual abuse. It can have effects similar to those of more severe sexual abuse, including depression, fearfulness, and nightmares in addition to other symptom s. This is considered sexually exploitive and can have long term negative psychological and interpersonal effects.
Sexual abuse can be verbal and emotional as well as physical.
It includes exposing children to pornography or adult sexual behavior. How children learn to become sex offenders. Study suggests that previous childhood sexual abuse and exposure to adult sexual behavior of many sex offenders led to a kind of imprinting in which they repeat same acts onto others. Kobayasgi, J., Sales B.D., Becker, J.V., Figueredo, A.J., et al. Perceived parental deviance, parent-child bonding, child abuse, and child sexual aggression.