Child sexual abuse Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Research== Child sexual abuse has gained public attention since the 1970s and has become one of the most high-profile crimes. While sexual use of children by adults has been present throughout history, public interest in prevention has tended to fluctuate.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://tif.ssrc.org/2012/07/13/placing-childhood-sexual-abuse-in-historical-perspective/|title=Placing childhood sexual abuse in historical perspective – The Immanent Frame|last=Mintz|first=Steven|website=tif.ssrc.org|access-date=2018-01-29|date=2012-07-13}}</ref> Initially, concern centered around children under the age of ten, but over time, advocates have attracted attention toward the sexual abuse of children between the ages of 11 and 17.<ref name=":0" /> Up until the 1930s, the psychological impact of sexual abuse was not emphasized, instead emphasis was placed on the physical harm or the child's reputation.<ref name=":0" /> Widespread public awareness of children's sexual abuse did not occur until the 1970s in the West.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Conte|first=Jon|date=1994|title=Child Sexual Abuse: Awareness and Backlash|url=https://www.princeton.edu/futureofchildren/publications/docs/04_02_11.pdf|journal=The Future of Children|volume=4|issue=2|pages=224–225|doi=10.2307/1602532|jstor=1602532|pmid=7804765|s2cid=24345673 |access-date=2018-01-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170815035025/http://www.princeton.edu/futureofchildren/publications/docs/04_02_11.pdf|archive-date=2017-08-15}}</ref> ===Early writings=== The first published work dedicated specifically to child sexual abuse appeared in France in 1857: ''Medical-Legal Studies of Sexual Assault'' ''(Etude Médico-Légale sur les Attentats aux Mœurs)'', by [[Auguste Ambroise Tardieu]], the noted French pathologist and pioneer of [[forensic medicine]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Masson | pages = 15–25 |first = Jeffrey Moussaieff | author-link = Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson | title = Assault on the Truth | publisher = Farrar Straus | year = 1984 | location = New York | isbn = 978-0-374-10642-3 }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page