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Feminists commonly assume that even mild forms of rape are some of the worst crimes of all, comparable to murder, which is likely a major overstatement. No doubt, kidnapping, permanent physical trauma and murder should be classified as crimes with appropriate severity (i.e. assault and murder), but these do not represent the majority of outcomes of rape. The most common outcome is that the victim shows [[antifragility|resilience]], i.e. neither physical nor psychological harm in the long term. | Feminists commonly assume that even mild forms of rape are some of the worst crimes of all, comparable to murder, which is likely a major overstatement. No doubt, kidnapping, permanent physical trauma and murder should be classified as crimes with appropriate severity (i.e. assault and murder), but these do not represent the majority of outcomes of rape. The most common outcome is that the victim shows [[antifragility|resilience]], i.e. neither physical nor psychological harm in the long term. | ||
In fact, one meta study of N = 55 studies found child sexual abuse accounts for only ''1%'' of the variance in later psychological outcomes, whereas family environment accounted for 5.9% of the variance.<ref>https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0272735818300539</ref><ref>https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17405629.2016.1150174</ref><ref>https://www.ipce.info/library_3/rbt/metaana.pdf</ref><ref>http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/A-replication-of-the-meta-analytic-examination-of-child-sexual-abuse-by-Rind-Tromovitch-and-Bauserman.pdf</ref> Women who do develop PTSD in mild cases presumably already had a disposition for it, which | In fact, one meta study of N = 55 studies found child sexual abuse accounts for only ''1%'' of the variance in later psychological outcomes, whereas family environment accounted for 5.9% of the variance.<ref>https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0272735818300539</ref><ref>https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17405629.2016.1150174</ref><ref>https://www.ipce.info/library_3/rbt/metaana.pdf</ref><ref>http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/A-replication-of-the-meta-analytic-examination-of-child-sexual-abuse-by-Rind-Tromovitch-and-Bauserman.pdf</ref> Women who do develop PTSD in mild cases presumably already had a disposition for it, which may often only be worsened by a highly dramatized social response to rape. | ||
The severity with which rape is socially ostracized is thus likely disproportional to the overall harm caused by rape, especially since rape is rare and is committed by a [[apex fallacy|tiny subset of men]], and thus it is mostly a moral panic. All of this is complicated by the fact that most women have [[#Rape_fantasies|rape fantasies]] and appear to sometimes provoke it. The push to pathologize hebephilia, in particular, has been suggested to be driven by a "punitive era of moral panic", as claimed by forensic psychologist Karen Franklin, "a textbook example of subjective values masquerading as science" (though referring to the sexual interest, not rape).<ref>https://www.ipce.info/library/journal-article/public-policy-implications-hebephilia-response-blanchard-et-al-2008</ref> | The severity with which rape is socially ostracized is thus likely disproportional to the overall harm caused by rape, especially since rape is rare and is committed by a [[apex fallacy|tiny subset of men]], and thus it is mostly a moral panic. All of this is complicated by the fact that most women have [[#Rape_fantasies|rape fantasies]] and appear to sometimes provoke it. The push to pathologize hebephilia, in particular, has been suggested to be driven by a "punitive era of moral panic", as claimed by forensic psychologist Karen Franklin, "a textbook example of subjective values masquerading as science" (though referring to the sexual interest, not rape).<ref>https://www.ipce.info/library/journal-article/public-policy-implications-hebephilia-response-blanchard-et-al-2008</ref> | ||