Abstract

This exploratory study examines how the intersection of physical impairment, sexual minority status, and gender affects lifetime sexual assault. Persons with a physical disability, sexual minorities, and women all experience high rates of sexual assault. However, the intersection of these identities is rarely studied. The author draws on the concept of sexual citizenship to contextualize how vulnerability affects populations with multiple marginalized identities. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health Wave 4, analysis showed that both physical limitation and sexual minority status were positively correlated with higher risks of lifetime sexual assault in Binary Logistic Regression. Predicted probabilities derived from analysis indicated that sexual minority status had a larger effect than physical limitation on lifetime sexual assault, but sexual minority women with a physical limitation had the highest risk of having experienced sexual assault.

摘要

这项探索性研究研究了身体障碍，少数族裔身份和性别的交集如何影响一生的性侵犯。身体残障人士，性少数群体和妇女都遭受着很高的性侵犯。但是，很少研究这些身份的交集。作者利用性公民身份的概念来说明脆弱性如何影响具有多个边缘化身份的人群。使用《全国青少年健康纵波研究》第4期的数据，分析表明，身体上的限制和性少数状态与二元Logistic回归中终身性侵犯的较高风险呈正相关。