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Change in reactions over time

Posted by Talix on 2024-July-22 20:11:05, Monday
In reply to Re: Rind Data posted by Pharmakon on 2024-July-22 00:18:45, Monday

Look at table 2 in Rind (2022). Reactions generally drift to neutral over time.

The reconceptualisation idea of trauma abuse - the idea that a child might enjoy the abuse at the time but realise how horrible it was later - would suggest that reactions should worsen over time. But that doesn't seem to be happening to most minors.

Instead it seems to be matching the trend that we see from more banal activities. At the time emotions run more hot, but over time sentiment about the activity tends to mellow.

This would suggest that - at least for minor/older sexual contact involving adolescents (which dominate this dataset) - their reaction pattern indicates it just wasn't such a big deal. It wasn't some weird psychologically unique event, it was just another thing that happened while growing up.

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