The Psychoanalysts believe sexual abuse happens because children want to have sex with their parents. Some of the myths behind this explanation are that women cry about rape, children lie about incest, children are sexually provocative, incest is not harmful, and mothers collude with the perpetrator.
The Victim Precipitation Approach states that women ask for it. Myths for this approach include that only young, stereotypcally attractive women are raped, and that women can avoid being raped by not walking on the streets, choosing different clothing, etc.
Others believe, that sexual abuse is a family dysfunction; that it only occurs because a family is dysfunctional. This is yet another myth. Finally, the psychological approach believes that men who abuse cannot control their sexual urges. This is also a myth or a belief that can be contested.
The truth is that sexual abuse occurs when there is a great difference in power, where the perpetrator has more power than the victim. This power may be physical, monetary, social, legal, etc. It is believed by others that sexual abuse occurs because we are socialized into particular ways to be a man, where male dominance and parent dominance reign; that our system is set up to support and encourage this domination and rarely is truly complicit with the victim.
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