An analysis of human sexuality textbook coverage of the psychological correlates of adult‐nonadult sex

The effects of child sexual abuse: Comment on Rind, Tromovitch, and Bauserman (1998).

“…Rind et al (1998) concluded that basic assumptions about CSA were not supported and that the harm associated with sexual relationships between adults and children, especially those involving boys, has been exaggerated—a viewpoint entirely consistent with their prior writings in this area (e.g., Bauserman, 1989, 1990; Bauserman & Rind, 1997; Rind, 1995a, 1995b; Rind & Bauserman, 1993; Rind & Tromovitch, 1997). They went on to suggest that when labeling events that have “heretofore been defined sociolegally as CSA,” a more “scientific” approach would be to focus on the young person's perception of the experience: A willing encounter with positive reactions would be labeled simply adult–child sex , a value-neutral term.…”

A meta-analytic examination of assumed properties of child sexual abuse using college samples.

“…Sampling biases. Qualitative literature reviews have been primarily based on clinical or legal samples, which cannot be assumed to be representative of the population of persons with a history of CSA (Bauserman & Rind, 1997;Okami, 1991;Rind, 1995). Some reviews were based exclusively or almost exclusively on clinical and legal samples (e.g., Beitchman et al, 1991;Black & DeBlassie, 1993;Glod, 1993;Kendall-Tackett et al, 1993;Mendel, 1995;Watkins & Bentovim, 1992).…”

Biased use of cross‐cultural and historical perspectives on male homosexuality in human sexuality textbooks

“…The question arises of how common these biases are in more recent human sexuality textbooks. Rind (1995) demonstrated wide-spread bias among human sexuality textbooks in their coverage of psychological correlates of nonadultadult sex, in which they typically exaggerated negative correlates and inappropriately generalized from the experiences of girls to those of boys. Based on these results, as well as the strong moral distinctions made between manman and man-boy sex in the post-1970s era, it was expect- 1996 1993 1991 1993 1993 1997 1989 1992 1994 1987 1995 1997 1997 1993 1991 1996 14, 21-22, 488-89 36, 374 8-13, 17, 20, 22, 247^8, 250-52, 552 275 34, 38-39, 441-44 387 10, 403, 425 3, 12, 19, 34, 396-97, 526-27 368, 573-74, 576 12,199,320,325,331 26, 313-14 ed that other authors of human sexuality textbooks would also tend to commit errors of commission and omission in their use of historical and cross-cultural perspectives on male homosexuality.…”

“…Eighteen human sexuality textbooks published in the U.S. were obtained for analysis (see Table 1), including the 14 used in the Rind (1995) study plus 4 new ones (Carroll & Wolpe, 1996;Francoeur, 1991;Greenberg, Breuss, & Mullen, 1993;Zgourides, 1996). Newer editions for half of the original textbooks, as well as the 4 new ones, were obtained from publishers at the 1996 and 1997 Eastern Psychological Association conferences.…”