Comportamenti sessualizzati come segnali di abuso sessuale

Knowledge regarding the child sexual development is not only of theoretical interest. It is important to be aware of normal sexual behaviors of children for at least two reasons: first, sexual activities between children should not be regarded as resulting from sexual abuse, and, second, because sexually abused children manifest more sexual behaviors than non-clinical children, so it is relevant to know what the baseline is. However child sexual behaviors can be affected by other factors than sexual abuse: e.g. family attitudes to the sexuality and negative and stressing life events can strongly affect the sexual atypical behavior of children.