ABSTRACT
When issues of sexual abuse and sexual exploitation are discussed, the common image is that of a male perpetrator forcing various degrees of nonconsensual sex upon a woman or a child. This type of exploitative sexuality is linked to violence in general and is found in all societies to be more often perpetrated by men than by women. The equally profound gender loading of paraphilic forms of sexual deviance disorders among men serves to highlight concerns about men acting in sexually dangerous ways. While these sexual stereotypes are factually true and thus correct in terms of generalized societal concerns, they also serve to camouflage the sexual exploitation and violence perpetrated by women against male and female children and, in some instances, against adults of both genders.
