Female-perpetrated sexual abuse (FSA) is often seen as rare and of little consequence. Confessing to being a victim of FSA is infrequent and often met with incredulity. Identifying as such a victim is thus often a response to an incitement to speak in the mode of confession. Interviews producing the possibility for such confessions were conducted with ten self-identified South African FSA victims and then analysed using a Foucauldian approach. In identifying as victims of FSA the participants drew on psychologised, gendered accounts of damage reflected in trauma, revictimisation, memory loss, the cycle of abuse and deviance. An analysis of these accounts demonstrates how confessional sites, such as the (psychological) interview, anchor victim worthiness in damage so that ‘non-normative’ victims of violence are able to see themselves in sexual violence discourse as forever compromised subjects whose healing requires rethinking the relationship between gender, sexuality, and violence in contemporary South Africa.

女性犯下的性虐待 (FSA) 通常被视为罕见且影响不大。承认自己是 FSA 的受害者并不常见，而且常常遭到怀疑。因此，确定自己是这样的受害者通常是对以供述方式说话的煽动的回应。对 10 名自我认同的南非 FSA 受害者进行了产生此类供述可能性的访谈，然后使用福柯方法进行了分析。在确定 FSA 的受害者时，参与者利用了心理化的、性别化的伤害描述，这些伤害反映在创伤、再受害、记忆丧失、虐待和越轨的循环中。对这些叙述的分析表明，忏悔网站，如（心理）访谈，