Many people talk about how bad it is when girls are molested by men... "oh how terrible, what a creep, they should lock him up and throw away the key", etc. Very little is said about female offenders and their victims however, particularly when the victims are teenaged boys. Hislop, who is a practicing therapist makes such oversights much more difficult given the evidence she presents in this study which is written like a scholarly monograph. She references many professionals who are specialists in the field and also presents results from studies of her own.I didn't read this entire book cover to cover, because parts of it are written more for practicing threrapists, particularly the last part. Much of the book however is accessible to the average educated person. A lot of interesting results were presented. Based on other things I've read and heard, much of the information in this book is not new, but some of it however is quite shocking.I already knew that female offenders tend to come from chaotic or dysfunctional backgrounds where alcoholism, drug abuse, physical/sexual abuse is the norm. It's also relatively well known that women from such backgrounds tend to select life partners who will re-activate this chaos, if they select a "good guy" however they will do something in their relationship to sabotage it (i.e. commit incest, abuse their kids, cheat, abuse drugs/alcohol, etc.).Some of the interesting information which I didn't know are the following assertions, which has been confirmed by professionals in the field:-Men who were incest victims by their mothers tend to suffer from serious psychosomatic symptoms and depression as adults, social dysfunction and are hindered in cognitive development.-The majority of serial rapists have had sexual contact with grown women as children/adolescents.-Rapists are sexually victimized more by females than males.So many people think that boys who are victimized by grown women are lucky. After reading this book, we learn that boys who are victimized by women are hardly lucky. And the women who victimize them... they more often than not are complete messes socially and mentally.