1. Courtship, harassment, and sexual abuse: defining the borders -- 2. Etiology of Sexual Offending -- 3. Religious authority as risk factor for sexual abuse -- 4. The impact of sexual abuse on the emotions and relationship -- 5. The role of emotional dysregulation in modulating emotional/physical abuse and psychopathology -- 6. Sexual Abuse and sexual function -- 7. The incest and the psychopathological family -- 8. Unwanted sexual events and female sexuality -- 9. Sexual trauma and psychotic risk -- 10. Sexual abuse in health professionals -- 11. Abuse, human trafficking, and prostitution -- 12. Sexual abuse and misuse of alcohol and substances -- 13. Childhood sexual abuse and psychopathology -- 14. Childhood sexual abuse in gender creative children -- 15. Chemsex and abuse -- 16. Negative Attitudes to Lesbian women and Gay Men: Persecutors and Victims -- 17. Female paraphilias as revealed through male-male erotica: A new and normative paradigm? -- 18. Atypical Sexual Offenders -- 19. Forensic aspects of Sexual Abuse -- 20. Social education to face sexual abuse -- 21. Psychological treatment of paraphilic sex offenders -- 22. Medical treatment of paraphilic sex offenders.

This new edition aims to examine the impacts of maltreatment of both children and social minorities, such as homosexuals and gender dysphoric individuals or those affected by disabilities, in women, in patients, and describes skills that are of value in supporting victims of maltreatment and preventing discrimination. On this purpose, the new book is not only an update of the current literature on the topic, but will be also enriched by chapters dealing with the subtle border between courtship and harassment, with the responsibilities of the health professionals, with the role of internet and pornography in the "economy" of abuses and sexual slavery, with forensic aspects of the abuses and with therapy of both suffered and operated sexual violence starting from prevention as social education until medical approaches. This new edition will be particularly useful to sexual medicine specialists, medical doctors, psychologists and psychiatrists, as well as graduate students in these disciplines, but also to sociologists, educators and law professionals. By fostering a better understanding of discrimination triggers and effects, this new edition will help clinicians and mentors to provide improved support through the tailoring of therapies to the needs of maltreated and abused individuals.