Finally, in 1978 a mail survey about sexual abuse was sent to a random sample of Texas residents who held valid driver's licenses, as part of a legislatively mandated study of sexual abuse in that state (Kercher, 1980; Kercher & McShane, 1983). Unfortunately, sexual abuse was left rather broadly defined for the resondents as
contacts or interactions between a child and an adult when the child is being used for the sexual stimulation of the perpetrator or another person. Sexual abuse may be committed by a person under the age of 18 when that person is significantly older than the victim or when the perpetrator is in the position of power or control over another "child."No other specific age parameters were given. Of the 461 male respondents in this survey, 3% indicated that they had been sexually abused.