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Female Sex Offenders: What Therapists, Law Enforcement and Child Protective Services Need to Know

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Many people talk about how bad it is when girls are molested by men... "oh how terrible, what a creep, they should lock him up and throw away the key", etc. Very little is said about female offenders and their victims however, particularly when the victims are teenaged boys. Hislop, who is a practicing therapist makes such oversights much more difficult given the evidence she presents in this study which is written like a scholarly monograph. She references many professionals who are specialists in the field and also presents results from studies of her own.

I didn't read this entire book cover to cover, because parts of it are written more for practicing threrapists, particularly the last part. Much of the book however is accessible to the average educated person. A lot of interesting results were presented. Based on other things I've read and heard, much of the information in this book is not new, but some of it however is quite shocking.

I already knew that female offenders tend to come from chaotic or dysfunctional backgrounds where alcoholism, drug abuse, physical/sexual abuse is the norm. It's also relatively well known that women from such backgrounds tend to select life partners who will re-activate this chaos, if they select a "good guy" however they will do something in their relationship to sabotage it (i.e. commit incest, abuse their kids, cheat, abuse drugs/alcohol, etc.).

Some of the interesting information which I didn't know are the following assertions, which has been confirmed by professionals in the field:

-Men who were incest victims by their mothers tend to suffer from serious psychosomatic symptoms and depression as adults, social dysfunction and are hindered in cognitive development.

-The majority of serial rapists have had sexual contact with grown women as children/adolescents.

-Rapists are sexually victimized more by females than males.

So many people think that boys who are victimized by grown women are lucky. After reading this book, we learn that boys who are victimized by women are hardly lucky. And the women who victimize them... they more often than not are complete messes socially and mentally.

As a licensed clinical psychologist, I feel that this is a well written and very well researched book. It shows a lot of insight into a very newly researched field of psychology as well as a practical approach for helping professionals to aid and understand the victums.

This book is very well written and researched and I liked Ms. Hislop's factual style of writing. Not far into the book it suddenly struck me as odd that there is so much effort in understanding female sex offenders, but I do not see this same attempt at understanding male offenders ... they just go straight to prison. Is it not possible that they may also be suffering from some childhood trauma done to them or are in other ways in great need of psychological help. Maybe someone could write a book about that.

I found this book to be very well researched, and thorough. I believe that his contains new information that is helpful to helping both victims and offenders. It is a shame that more people in positions that deal with victims or offenders have not read this book.

A GREAT Journalist, Patricia Pearson has touched on this subject as well. Overwhelming fact, in virtually all rape, or any other type of sexual assault perpetrated by females... is not taken seriously, turned into a case of "little child (boy) gets "lucky"?, and the ultimate belief of "women don't ever rape" seems to prevail. WHY? Because the authorities, judicial, and medical arenas FAIL TO DOCUMENT, REPORT, OR PERSUE CRIMINAL CHARGES/ACTION AGAINST THE FEMALE PERPETRATOR. Instead, it is routine that authorities will try find any male present to inflict blame. A neighbor, distant friend, the person calling in the crime to authorities, or any other innocent bystander-- any one of these males WILL BE BLAMED-- virtually all cases involving female crimes. Not to mention the slew of excuses any female can utilitize on any given moment(court trial) to get off the hook... COMPLETELY.

In MOST cases involving female perpetrated crimes (this also includes domestic violence), is down played to a lesser crime sentence/charge, or simply dismissed.... Unless of course the criminal offense can be passed onto a male for ANY given reason.

Stop with the misguided ultra-feminist male-hatred ideology. Women are just as competent to commit a crime, sexual assault. Pull your heads from the sand. Next time, listen and believe your young child when he comes up to you and says "she touched me where I go potty"... Don't beat him or accuse him of lieing... Women are quite capable, and it certainly does happen more often than what YOU would like to believe.

The same way laws have bee redefined for females when they came into the workplace so it is true for this issue.
Females have always raped males.
All the reasons have already been stated on why women get away with this so I wont revisit.
suffice it to say that many female students love to have affairs with their male teachers but it doesnt make it right.
But the religious aspect of female virginity etc clouds our way and while religion wont change we can.
RAPE IS RAPE