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The impact of pedosexual contacts

There are clear differences between public opinion and scientific research. Only one point seems to be correct in the public opinion: there are significant correlations between various negative impact and sexual abuse. But correlation is not cause, and significant does not mean the effect is great.

(meta-analysis of Rind et.al. 1998)

My thesisis that the main cause of impact is the trauma caused by unwanted, uncontrollable, unpredictable experiences.

Predictions

If this thesis is correct, the following predictions should be observable:

Research Results

In the following files, we compare these predictions with research results:

General Literature

Let's start with the results collected by David Finkelhor:

Aim of This Research

For me, the aim of this research is not only to verify, that there are really no results which establish harm caused by consensual experiences (this has been done already by other researchers), but to allow you to verify this by yourself without going into the library.

I hope, this will be useful not only for people who want to find out if and which harm may be caused by consensual sexual relations, but also by others, like victims of real child abuse who want to find information about possible lasting effects.

I recognize that I have a personal bias - I'm not interested in finding results which show damage caused by consensual sexual experiences. To minimize the influence of this bias on the results, I try to include a lot of the text of the original, and at least the abstract of every relevant paper. This requires a lot of time, much more than simply to verify for myself that there are no "critical" results in a given paper. That's why at the current moment only a small number or papers has been included. But I have not "selected" between "good" and "bad" papers. I know, I cannot prove this until I have included them all, but I hope you believe me in this point.

Summary

There is a lot of literature in this domain, and I have not so much time as I want to spend for this. But already at the current state it seems possible to summarize:

Negative outcome is mostly found only for women. Considering the fact that coercion and violence is much more common in man/girl relationships compared with man/boy relationships, this gives additional evidence that only the nonconsensual experiences cause the problems.

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