SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS IN MALES AND FEMALES - SIGNIFICANCE OF DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY BACKGROUND AND CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE

The authors examined by questionnaire the prevalence and the possible relationship of childhood sexual abuse and dysfunktional family backgr ound to the later sexual dysfunctions in a nonclinical male and female student sample. Of the 202 females, 40, (21.8%) reported a narrowly d efined childhood sexual abuse, of the 301 men who completed the questi onnaires 29 (9.6%) reported any kind of a sexually abusive experience, and 17 (5.6%) were victims of a marked childhood sexual victimization . 66 (32.6%) females and 79 (26%) males reported an adverse family bac kground. Long-lasting adverse familiar relationship to attachment figu res were significant to later sexual dysfunctions in both sexes. Women , who reported repeated childhood sexual abuse, reported significantly more frequently sexual desire disorder and orgasm disorder, However, males who experienced - in most cases single - childhood sexual abuse, showed not more frequently sexual dysfunctions than nonvictims.