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That violence is a “gender” problem par excellence is widely acknowledged and upheld by authoritative international organizations. Indeed, the term “gender violence” was coined by the World Health Organization (WHO) [1, 2]. With this term, it meant to group a complex panorama of anti-women behaviors that include domestic violence, sexual violence, and psychological violence, as well as mobbing or the use of the female body in an unseemly or disrespectful way. From the very first definition, made in 1993 [1], the WHO stressed the importance of the willfulness of the act regardless of its consequences, as well as the presence of a condition of asymmetry, whether due to physical strength or power, as the main feature.

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    Elisabetta Costantini

  2. Department of Urology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

    Donata Villari

  3. SS Annunziata Hospital, Savigliano, Italy

    Maria Teresa Filocamo

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Dubini, V. (2017). Sexuality After Abuse. In: Costantini, E., Villari, D., Filocamo, M. (eds) Female Sexual Function and Dysfunction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41716-5_11

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