ABSTRACT
IN RECENT YEARS, the sexual abuse of males has received purposeful attention. Consequently, its knowledge base, although still embryonic, continues to develop. It holds a relatively small yet growing number of empirical studies, clinical reports, and reviews of the literature. There exists a need for a conceptual and empirical model that integrates data, articulates motive forces and emergent consequences associated with this psychosocial problem, and, most importantly, gives voice to males with histories of childhood sexual abuse (CSA). This chapter presents the assumptions undergirding The sexual abuse of males (SAM) model of dynamics and effects. Many of the assumptions have as their wellspring the rich and now classic literature of decades past.
