I dissociate pretty severely at times [look what happened to me last week...] and I've never been sexually abused.
Traumatic and abusive situations of any kind however can result in dissociation.
Basically, dissociation is a defence against unbearable feelings or events of any kind.
It can cause you to split off from yourself to survive - this might be anything from looking onto yourself and feeling really detached, to having alternate personality states that are kind of in compartments.
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