Fifty men (26%) reported sexual experiences before age 17 with someone at least 5 years older, constituting CSA according to the age-based definition. Men's descriptions of their CSA experiences were coded from taped interviews. The sample consisted of 192 gay and bisexual men recruited from a randomly selected community sample. We compared the conventional definition of CSA based on age difference with a modified definition of CSA based on perception to evaluate which definition best accounted for problems in adjustment.
This study examined childhood sexual abuse (CSA) in gay and bisexual men.
