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Devoting yourself to celibacy doesn’t mean you can’t be a sexual assaulter
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/09/brett-kavanaugh-sexual-assault-allegations-fox-news-interview-virgin But as Seth Meyers noted on a particularly merciless Late Night segment, this defense is utterly irrelevant. “It does not matter if you were a virgin,” Meyers said Tuesday night. “You are being accused of sexual assault, not sexual intercourse. Those things have nothing to do with each other. It’s the same as saying,…

Actions driven solely by anger are of no use at all
Actions driven solely by anger are of no use at all; realizing this can help strengthen your determination to resist it. — Dalai Lama Quotes (@DalaiLamaPosts) September 9, 2014 http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/anger-management-self-control/ What turns anger into action? Mostly cognitive control, or to use a less technical term, self-control. About a year ago I was in Davos at…

Disclosure of non-recent (historic) childhood sexual abuse: What should researchers do?
https://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2020/11/10/medethics-2020-106343 Non-recent (historic) childhood sexual abuse is an important issue to research, though often regarded as taboo and frequently met with caution, avoidance or even opposition from research ethics committees. Sensitive research, such as that which asks victim-survivors to recount experiences of abuse or harm, has the propensity to be emotionally challenging for both the…
Sexual abuse survivors are not emotionally doomed, per new research
When survivors feel supported, they can develop resilience. https://t.co/06PrmpeKsz — National Sexual Violence Resource Center (@NSVRC) December 2, 2019 A recently released study suggests that the majority of survivors of childhood sexual abuse are able to achieve what the study calls “complete mental health.” Complete mental Health (CMH) is defined, in the study, as, “the…

Building Trust To Coerce Victims Into Compliance And Secrecy
In “A Teacher,” Claire begins grooming her student, Eric, in one of their first interactions, when she flirtatiously implies that he is smarter than his friends and offers him half her sandwich. Although these acts may seem innocent enough, they set the stage for her to define their relationship as a “special” one where the…
“Sometimes the first draft of history is wrong ― especially when no one fact checks it,”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/al-franken-jane-mayer-new-yorker_n_5d35a516e4b0419fd32feb86?section=politics&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000016 The 68-year-old former “Saturday Night Live” cast member told Mayer that he regrets having made some women uncomfortable, but pushed back on how his actions were characterized by his eight accusers. “The idea that anybody who accuses someone of something is always right ― that’s not the case,” Franken said. “That isn’t reality.” Franken,…