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A small article appeared in the New York Times on March 24, 1999, in which it was noted that Samuel Manzie, a 17-year-old who had pleaded guilty to strangling 11-year-old Eddie Werner as he sold candy door to door, offered to testify at the trial of a 45-year-old man who had sodomized Manzie when he was 14 years old (Robert Hanley. "Youth Offers to Testify He Agreed to Sex with Man, 45." p. A24). The relation among sexual victimization, physical abuse, and subsequent aggression forms the core subject of Sexual Aggression.
Although the title suggests violent sexual interactions, such as
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