I experience negative feelings such as anger, digust, or guilt with touch. I have difficulty becoming aroused or feeling sensation. I experience intrusive or disturbing sexual thoughts and images. I experience vaginal pain or orgasmic difficulties. I have erectile or ejaculatory difficulty.
Sexual abuse is a leading cause of sexual functioning problems.
A recent national study on sexual dysfunction in the U.S. found that victims of unwanted sexual contact exhibit much higher rates of sexual functioning problems. Women who were ever sexually forced are more than twice as likely to have arousal disorders, and male victims of adult-child contact are three times as likely to experience erectile dysfunction and twice as likely to experience premature ejaculation and low sexual desire. Sexual healing is an empowering process in which you reclaim your sexuality as both positive and pleasurable. In The Sexual Healing Journey , I provide specific healing strategies and techniques to help survivors change sexual attitudes and behaviors which resulted from past sexual abuse. Sexual healing can take several months to several years, or more, to accomplish.