1. Lloyd de Mause (1976 [1974]) ‘The Evolution of Childhood’ in Lloyd de Mause (ed.) The History of Childhood (London: Souvenir Press; 1980 repr.), p. 1.
2. See William Naphy (2002) Sex Crimes: From Renaissance to Enlightenment (Stroud: Tempus), chapter 4, ‘Rape and Sexual Assault’;
3. Martin Ingram (2001) ‘Child Sexual Abuse in Early Modern England’ in Michael J. Braddick and John Walter (eds) Negotiating Power in Early Modern Society: Order, Hierarchy and Subordination in Britain and Ireland (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 63–84.
4. Louise Jackson has argued, though, that the term ‘sexually abused’ was not used until the nineteenth century: Louise A. Jackson (2000) Child Sexual Abuse in Victorian England (London and New York: Routledge), p. 2.
5. Sterling Fishman (1982) ‘The History of Childhood Sexuality’, Journal of Contemporary History, 17, 269–83, pp. 270, 272.