Sexual Abuse Support Group
Sexual abuse is a relative cultural term used to describe sexual relations and behavior between two or more parties which are considered criminally and/or morally offensive. Different types of sexual abuse involve: Non-consensual, forced physical sexual behavior such as rape, incest or sexual assault, or psychological forms of abuse, such as verbal sexual behavior or...
If your dad draws naked girls and puts them on his wall for everyone to see or takes pictures out of a Playboy and makes a collage out of them and has been doing this since you can remember is it sexual abuse?
deleted_user
umm i wouldnt call that sexual abuse...sounds like your dad is just a normal male to me...tho he could be discrete about the pictures...especially around kids...
deleted_user
hmmm....I think it is abuse. if u look up sexual abuse in the dictionary it also list showing pornography to children as abuse. it's called exposure abuse...& it's wrong!!!! as far as painting or drawings...to me I guess it depends how explicit they are....since I am an artist...I think art is art. but pictures of women out of playboy, colleagued and displayed for you young daughter to see is a form of abuse. That's my opinion at least. I wish there was an expert I could ask, but the dictionary defines it as such, & that is pretty reliable.
DeathByDegrees
I would call it a subtle form of mental abuse...sort of a combination of mental and sexual abuse.
deleted_user
With art there is a fine line between nudity and pornography. Like itsJennywren said...it all depends on how explicit the pics are! At our home we have a few nudes done by Salvador Dali and we don't consider this to be detremental(sp)to our children..as most of the time they hardly look at them. But if they are pics that your dad has put up for shock.."hustler"..value then i would definitly say exposure abuse too. Does it make you feel bad about yourself or do you feel desensitised by it and consider it a normal part of your upbringing..as this may have some long term affects regarding how you see yourself as a worthy woman especially at your age when peer groups can be absolute biatches and make you feel isolated because of your fathers actions.
deleted_user
mumofthree is right on here! I totally agree w/ what she said!
loffra180
mostly they make me feel uncomfotable because of the fact that in some of them the people are doing it and in some of them they have like demonic wings or something. it is just gross.
deleted_user
loffra180 did they make YOU feel gross, or did you just think THEY were gross? Do you think it made you feel bad or gross to be a woman? Did it affect how you viewed your own body? Did it affect how you felt ur father viewed you as a woman or what he expected you to be as a woman? My guess is yes, or it wouldn't even be an issue for u...but only you can truly answer these questions. But if the answer is yes to any of these questions...I think I was right on in saying the line was crossed. Either way, as a mother of 4 girls, I can say I would never subject my daughters to something like that, because I think it would affect their perception of what they are as women & girls, & what they should be. Pornographic materials define people as sex objects...& that is very confusing to young children...adults are developed enough to take it for what it is...but in children's minds it forms what they think they are expected to be...and to convey to a child that they are expected to be sex objects, even if it's just by showing them images, is sexual abuse.
loffra180
it is kind of hard to explain what they make me feel like. Yeah they make me feel gross and i think they are gross. But most of all they make me feel extremely uncomfortable. it is one of the reasons i don't like going to his house.
deleted_user
I can totally understand that. Yes...I think it is abuse! When you show porn to kids u are taking away their sexual innocents. & to me that's sexual abuse!
loffra180
Thnks for all the input you guys that is all i wanted to know.
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