Like all complex human beings, women have the capacity for kindness and for cruelty.
The trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend and associate of the late Jeffrey Epstein, serves as a critical turning point in our ongoing reckoning with sexual abuse by foregrounding the ugly reality of female sexual predation. Maxwell stands charged with trafficking underage girls for abuse by Epstein.
Common beliefs, media depictions, and powerful gender norms point to men as the only real sexual threat. But research on female perpetrators has grown dramatically in recent years, forcing us to rethink our ideas about sexual abuse. This reconsideration is as urgent as ever: A thorough understanding of the full range of abuse is necessary to help advance the feminist lessons from the #MeToo movement and beyond.
Research also unearthed a trend common among sexual assaults: Most survivors of sexual assault know their perpetrator. Female abusers, too, are typically known to the victims, who are often bewildered and wracked with self-blame in the wake of abuse. Young adults and people behind bars are especially at risk. And according to the CDC, heterosexual male victims of sexual abuse are the group mostly likely to report female abusers .
of youth found that nearly half of those self-reporting rape or attempted rape by age 18-19 were female.The research is startlingly clear: It’s time to move beyond the idea of exclusively male perpetrators. Maxwell’s trial foregrounds a tendency specific to female abusers. While her defense team argues that she’s merely a scapegoat for Epstein, prosecutors are building a convincing case that the two operated closely together. This abuse pattern, known as co-offending, is now well documented. In fact, a 2015of federal surveys found that, compared to men, female sexual perpetrators were much more likely to have an accomplice, working with a co-offender in a third of abuse incidents.
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