SUMMARY :
The long-term sexual consequences on male victims of paedophilia or incest would
appear to have been neglected even more than the consequences on female victims,
despite the fact that paedophilia and incest are "extremely" topical
subjects. The rights of human beings to protection require precise knowledge
of the consequences of childhood sexual abuse, as opposed to pressure groups
who try to minimise the effects of sexual relations between adults and children.
Reasons have been advanced to explain this neglect of the consequences on male
children and the underestimation of the sexual aggressions to which they have
been subjected. By reviewing international literature, the difficulty in studying
the long-term effects on male victims of paedophilia or incest is obvious, both
due to the fact that the analysis takes place a long time after the events,
and the difficulty in assessing the causal links between these events and their
consequences on the current physical or psychological state of the adult subject.
Although current studies are trying to remove these obstacles, they mainly attempt
to study "high risk" sexual behaviour, undeniably on the rise in this
type of population. In all events, although the consequences on sexuality are
difficult to evaluate with any level of precision, particularly since they include
many other associated factors, they are obviously numerous and varied. Their
responsibility in psychological disorders, but also in behavioural dysfunctions
requires traumatic sexual events during childhood to be identified during consultations
for male subjects, in the same way as for women.