Abuse and it’s Effects on Sexual Identity

Any form of abuse will cause extreme shame in victims. Vulnerability which is synonymous with intimacy will become greatly affected. Abuse often distorts, damages, and traumatizes one’s ability to create a sexual identity making being sexual and intimate later in life very difficult. Because there may not have been sexual abuse involved it is diffuse to see how one’s sexuality is effected by abuse. With narcissistic abuse there is an extreme lack of boundaries and enmeshment which insidiously can erode a child’s ability to build a healthy sense of sexuality and a sexual identity.