Children who are spanked or given some
form of physical punishment by their parents may be more likely to have
sexual problems as adults, a new study finds.
An analysis of four studies by Murray Straus, co-director of the Family
Research Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire-Durham, found
that children who suffer physical punishment in the form of spanking,
hitting or slapping are more likely to engage in risky sexual behavior
as adults.
The study, presented Thursday to the American Psychological
Association, suggests that spanked children also are more likely to be
"physically or verbally coercing" to a sexual partner and engage in
masochistic sex, including arousal by spanking, later in life.
Elizabeth Gershoff, an assistant professor of social work at the
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, who reviewed 80 years of spanking
research in 2002 in the APA's Psychological Bulletin, said Straus' work
appears to be the first to link spanking to sexual problems.
Gershoff said that even though many children are spanked by their
parents, future problems often depend on how the children process the
experience and whether they ultimately equate love with physical pain.
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