I would like to see those statistics if you remove non-contact abuse (while inappropriate if someone yells "Hey, nice @ss!" that's not abuse...sorry). and peer abuse (because that's an entirely different issue).
The definition of "non-contact sexual abuse" as it relates to child sexual abuse is NOT cat-calling.
From the study - Measures section:
The participants were asked if they had been exposed to any of the following against their will: (1)
non-contact abuse “somebody exposed him/herself indecently towards you,” (2) contact abuse “somebody has pawed you or touched your body in an indecent way,” “you masturbated somebody else,” (3) penetrative abuse (not specifying if for example fingers or devices were used) “you have had sexual intercourse,” “you have had oral sex,” “you have had anal sex.”
Participants who had reported any of the above mentioned experiences of sexual abuse were asked to answer a question about how many times they had been exposed against their will and to describe the abuse characteristics on the first abuse occasion (participant's age, offender's age and gender, relation to the offender, victim or offender on alcohol or drugs, kinds of persuasion/pressure/force, including physical force or physical violence, used by the offender).
Results
Sexual abuse rates
Of the total sample of 2,324 girls and 2,015 boys, 65% of the girls and 23% of the boys reported some form of sexual abuse experience. Of the girls who reported experiences of sexual abuse, 10.0% reported non-contact abuse, 69.2% contact abuse without penetration and 20.8% penetrating abuse. Non-contact abuse was reported by 18.4% of the boys who reported sexual abuse, while 57.3% reported contact abuse and 24.3% penetrating abuse (
Table 1). Participants with experiences of different kinds of abuse were categorized according to the most severe kind of abuse they had reported.
This is why education and advocacy is needed. Most people don't understand exactly what child sexual abuse is.
