Child sexual victimization and mental health: an exploration

Sexual victimization refers to being a nonconsensual (unwilling) participant in sexual activity with another person. Childhood sexual abuse is related to subsequent mental health problems in adulthood, females experience sadness, guilt, loneliness, anger, anxiety once they got cheated by whom they have trusted so much. The main objective was to examine the effect of child sexual abuse on mental health of female youth in Kerala. The participants for the investigation included five females aged above 17 years from Calicut and Thrissur districts. Case study and counseling were carried out. The study revealed that Internet is highly abused for sexual offending. Child sexual abuse is an important predictor of prostitution and later high risk sexual behavior. The victims later changed in to the position of offenders, that is, they are searching for multiple sexual partners, prostitution etc.