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Posted by Filip30 on 2020-June-3 05:20:54, Wednesday

After a rather long time Bruce Rind has published a new study in May:

Rind, Bruce (2020): First Sexual Intercourse in the Irish Study of Sexual Health and Relationships: Current Functioning in Relation to Age at Time of Experience and Partner Age. Archives of Sexual Behavior, published online May 19th 2020

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-020-01721-y

Abstract:

„The Irish Study of Sexual Health and Relationships, based on a nationally representative sample of Republic of Ireland adults in 2004–2005, was used to examine adult adjustment in individuals who had their frst sexual intercourse as a minor with an adult. Participants were classifed into one of four groups based on their age at frst intercourse and their partner’s age: minors under 18 with peers; minors under 16 with adults; minors 16 to 17 with adults; and adults with adults. Adjustment (health, general relationships, satisfaction with most recent sexual partner, self-confdence, education and career achievement, and sexual problems) was compared across groups separately by gender. The vast majority of cases involved postpubertal heterosexual coitus. Overall, minors involved with adults were not signifcantly less well adjusted than adults involved with other adults on a majority of measures, efect size diferences in adjustment were mostly small, and mean adjustment responses consistently indicated good rather than poor adjustment. Sex diferences in frst-intercourse characteristics and reasons for engaging reliably occurred for all age groups. In general, males compared to females were more willing, wanted more to lose their virginity, felt more ready for it, did it more often on the spur of the moment, and were less often involved in a relationship or in love when it occurred. Sex diferences were greatest for boys versus girls under 16 with adults. Mediation and moderator analyses were also performed. Results were discussed in relation to competing perspectives on the efects of minor–adult sex.“

Some more information and comments:

1) The study shows some poorer adjustment in adulthood of people who had intercourse with an adult up to the age of 15 compared to those who did not. The typical non-significance of these results is likely to be due to the small number of people affected. Only 29 boys and only 24 girls had sexual intercourse with an adult up to the age of 15. However, the extent of the differences found is typically only small and the people affected are typically well adjusted as adults. This representative study is therefore very important evidence that the mass media's horror reports about the effects of what is termed “child sexual abuse” are definitely wrong. Good that Bruce Rind published this study. Another representative study mentioned in the article also had a similar result. Mass media are wrong about „CSA“.

2) The slightly worse adjustment of the affected adults who had intercourse with an adult before 16 years cannot automatically be attributed to early intercourse. The study controlled no confounding variables such as genes or difficult family relationships. The study also typically did not distinguish between forced and wanted intercourse. Correlations prove no causes.

3) 86% of the boys wanted to have sexual intercourse with the adult and were not persuaded to do so, the value of the girls is 52%. Only 7% of boys and only 22% of girls were forced to have the intercourse by adults. Sexual acts by "minors" and adults are typically voluntary.

4) „First intercourse was mostly a postpubertal event (not shown in the table). In the vast majority of cases of minors under 16 with adults, participants were aged 13 to 15 (86.2% for boys; 87.5% for girls). In almost all cases of minors with peers, participants were aged at least 13 (98.7% for boys; 99.6% for girls). In terms of same-sex (i.e., anal) versus opposite-sex first intercourse for males, almost all cases involved opposite-sex partners (99.6%) across the four participant–partner age groups. For boys under 16 with adults, 89.7% of partners were women; for boys 16 to 17 with adults, the rate was 93.7%. In short, first intercourse was mostly postpubertal and heterosexual.“

5) It would be interesting to see all of the study data for voluntary intercourse only (without mixing with forced intercourse). But the article also says: „In short, age and age difference, as well as circumstances of the event, had limited association with adjustment, and when they did, the association was often in unexpected ways.“

6) The article says: „In short, age discrepancy is virtually the sine qua non of CSA defnitions.“ That's not true - there are also many, many studies that only define forced sex as “CSA”.

7) There were big gender differences in first Intercourse:

„Characteristics, Motives In general, males (men, boys) compared to females (women, girls) were more willing in their first intercourse, felt more ready for it, wanted more to lose their virginity, and did it more often on the spur of the moment. Moreover, they were less often in relationships when it occurred or in love as a reason for doing it.“

8) According to Bruce Rind this gender difference may have a biological reason:

„The attributions of Gebhard et al. (1965) and Felson et al. (2019) fnd support in the primate literature. For example, Anderson and Bielert (1990), in their review of immature male sexuality in numerous primate species, concluded that “sexual interaction between adult females and immature males is universal” in nonhuman primates (p. 192), in which immature males typically display both eagerness and initiative in attempting coitus with adult females (Dixson, 2012; Gunst, Leca, & Vasey, 2013; Hashimoto, 1997; Kano, 1980; Kollar, Beckwith, & Edgerton, 1968). These primatologists interpreted this behavior as functional in helping immature males acquire adult-like skills, critical to their later reproductive success. In nonhuman primates, the reverse (i.e., eager immature females with accommodating adult males, with a useful or functional basis) does not tend to obtain. Arguably, this comparative perspective ofers a more parsimonious scientifc explanation for human postpubertal gender diferences than explanations from the dominant perspective (CSA paradigm), which presume boys’ greater eagerness is a maladaptation caused by defective cultural values and attitudes or indoctrination by their older partners (e.g., Ondersma et al., 2001).“


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