Factors Responsible For Sexual Abuse As Expressed By Students Of Federal College Of Education, Osiele Abeokuta, Nigeria

There are four types of behaviour that may be considered sexual harassment. In the first, someone with power over another person communicates to that less power that his/her sexual favours are expected in return for employment, promotion, raises grades or academic success. This overt attempt is referred to as quid pro quo harassment. The second type of sexual harassment includes the creation of “hostile environment”. This could include being subjected to unwanted sexual remarks, pictures or sexual degrading employment policies e.g. male server in a restaurant are fold to wear long trousers, a shirt and a tie while female servers are told to bare their legs to the high and display cleavage. The third type involves aggressive acts by supervisors, coworkers, instructors and so on. This include from unwanted touching or fondling to full-scale sexual-assault. A forth type of sexual harassment is referred to as “third-party effects”. How would you feel if you know that someone else in your class was guaranteed on A1 in the course and admission to a prestigious graduate program or job interview just because he/she has a sexual relationship with your professor? In the work place, sciences like these are very common and when a sexual relationship exists between a supervisor and a particular employee, it always has a negative effect on all the other “third parties” (Anita, 1991).
Child sexual abuse has been further classified by some academics and practitioners as sexual exploitation, which involves touching the child and/or compelling the child to observe, or be involved in other sexual activity (for example, watching pornographic videos); sexual assault, molestation., victimization, and child rape).
Perpetrators of sexual abuse know that children are trusting and dependent, so they take advantage of these vulnerabilities in children. Sexual abuse is an abuse of power over a child and a violation of a child’s right to normal, healthy, trusting relationships.
Factors Responsible for Perpetration of Sexual Abuse
    There are factors responsible for the perpetration of sexual abuse and some of them include:
Child experience
    Children who have witnessed or experienced sexual abuse: children who have been sexually abused, either by family members or by adult or older children sometimes react by coaxing, manipulating, or forcing younger children into the same kind of sexual behaviour. Brothers and sisters may become the victims of these “second hand” abuse sexually intrusive children who act out their own abuse in this way are sometimes called sexually reactive, its important for you to know that children who are being sexually victimized may become sexually intrusive.
Neglect
    If children are neglected, either physically or emotionally, they might engage in a full range of sexual activities. They might try sexual activities they have learned from other children, or they mighty experiment on their own, to learn how to get sexual pleasure. Part of their behaviour might come from their need to give and receive comfort when they are getting non frothier parents. Sexual activity between siblings which begin in this was might at first, appear experimental and mutual. However, because of the power differences between children, if the behaviour continues, it can become abusive especially if one of the children wants to stop and the others doesn’t.
Lack of Sex Education
    Children and teens that are taught in an age appropriate way about their physical and sexual development are more likely to engage in sexually intrusive behaviour.
Inadequate Socialization
    Children who are not allowed to play with their peers and teenagers who are not allowed to date, dance or socialize outside the home, are more likely to engage in sexually abuse with young siblings.