Interesting interview of an author of a new book with the same title as this subject line.

"As I hope to have made clear in the book, sexual abuse is never OK. No matter what the circumstances are, or how it impacts the victims, sexual abuse is an atrocious, despicable crime. Just because it rarely physically or psychologically damages the child does not mean it is OK. Harmfulness is not the same thing as wrongfulness. And why is it wrong? Because children are incapable of consent."

So to a secular scientist what makes something wrong? To a person writing for a secular scientific book what is sex beyond a way to feel good and make babies?

"I think practically, sexual abuse victims need to hear loud and clear that what happened to you is what happens to most people. It was wrong and not your fault, and you should report the crime, and the perpetrator should be punished. I don't think that sex abuse victims in most cases need years of therapy to get over the betrayal."

But that would mean so many mental health professionals and clinics with whole staffs would not have jobs. No we can't base such things on real science we need to perpetrate myths so people can keep such jobs.

"What is going on in society that so many men are choosing to get off on small children? I can find almost no studies on the subject. People will go into jails and interview a perpetrator, but most of these people don't go to jail, and most of them aren't caught."

That's because there are no good studies, people who try to do it get harassed just like she says she was while writing this book. Ah even this thinking person who likes to challenge myths of psychology will go on a myth that there are many perpetrators who are not caught.

Without reading the actual book I am interested in hearing what others here have to say about what she says. This stuff affects us and how people think of us.


• ( http link ) 'The Trauma Myth': The child betrayed
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