Intrinsic harm

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The dilemma of intrinsic harm concerns whether or not (or to what extent) harm is an unavoidable consequence of voluntary sexual contact between legally adult, and much younger people, usually classified as Child Sexual Abuse. Said question is frequently broached online when the topic of controversial research such as Rind et al is invoked.

Intrinsic harm is also one of the major debating points among MAPs and Academics concerned with minor-adult sex. Views on intrinsic harm are a primary factor in determining whether such a person is anti-contact, contact-neutral, or alternatively, pro-c.

Experts on intrinsic harm

James Cantor:

The research is much more consistent with the conclusion that harm is caused instead by coercion, manipulation, secrecy, and by courting kids who already have problems, not the sexual interactions per se.

Michael Bailey:

Indeed, the best scientific evidence suggests that the most typical experiences considered childhood sexual abuse may not be as harmful as most people think. Specifically, sexual activity that children engage in voluntarily (albeit illegally) with adults is nearly uncorrelated with undesirable outcomes.

Alfred Kinsey:

It is difficult to understand why a child, except for its cultural conditioning, should be disturbed at having its genitalia touched, or disturbed at seeing the genitalia of other persons, or disturbed at even more specific sexual contacts.

See also

We touch on this subject frequently throughout our detailed research sections. Some anthologies of particular relevance:

• Research: Secondary Harm
• Research: Family Environment
• Research: Association or Causation
• Research: Prevalence of Harm and Negative Outcomes
• Research: Double-Taboo CSA
• Research: The effects of pornography - With respect to so-called "online harms".

Encyclopedia and debate articles

• Sexceptionalism
• Debate Guide: Social constructionism
• Debate Guide: Profound and lifelong scarring

Essays

• Text of Human Rights and the denial of sexual freedom