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There is evidence that moderate lifetime adversity has a steeling effect, i.e. individuals who have faced some difficulties in their lives are on average in better psychological shape than others.<ref>https://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/abs/10.1027/2512-8442/a000011</ref> This brings into question whether harassment is harmful at all provided that it neither causes physical harm, nor long-term deprivation of basic needs (which would count as severe adversity). | There is evidence that moderate lifetime adversity has a steeling effect, i.e. individuals who have faced some difficulties in their lives are on average in better psychological shape than others.<ref>https://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/abs/10.1027/2512-8442/a000011</ref> This brings into question whether harassment is harmful at all provided that it neither causes physical harm, nor long-term deprivation of basic needs (which would count as severe adversity). | ||
Contrary to feminist claims that male misogyny is the main cause of sexual harassment, a study in 2017 found that sociosexual orientation ( | Contrary to feminist claims that male misogyny is the main cause of sexual harassment, a study in 2017 found that a measure of sociosexual orientation (level of mating effort and openness toward casual sex) predicted sexual harassment, not "rape myth acceptance" or misogyny, this also implies that claims of sexual harassment are often simply an offended women's reaction to a unsolicited offer to engage in casual sex by a man she finds undesirable, as stated by the authors of the paper: "when the solicitation comes from a desirable perpetrator the same type of behavior might not even be experienced as harassment".<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1090513817300016</ref> | ||
==Rape fantasies== | ==Rape fantasies== | ||