For women, there is also a correlation between sexual abuse in childhood and later sexual assault in adulthood.
Sexual assault in adulthood may be an important link to other impact, especially PTSD and suicidality, but also in general.
The link is suggested, for example, by the results of Lipschitz et.al. 1996 about psychiatric patients: "For all subjects, childhood sexual abuse was associated with adult sexual and physical assault. The charts of several patients who reported abuse histories did not include any record of abuse."
See also Jamieson 1997:"In regression analyses, with the exception of irritable bowel syndrome, women with only a history of childhood sexual abuse and no abuse later in life are not more likely than nonabused women to report pain syndromes. By contrast, with the exception of dysmenorrhea, all pain complaints studied were more common in women reporting abuse both as children and as adults."
Cloitre et.al. 1996 have found: "There was a higher prevalence of adult sexual assault among women reporting only physical abuse or physical and sexual abuse than those reporting only sexual abuse, indicating the significance of physical abuse as a potential risk factor for adult sexual assault."