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Are you aware of any research on this subject? It seems very hard (if not impossible) to disentangle the damage of childhood sex caused by social expectations a

Are you aware of any research on this subject? It seems very hard (if not impossible) to disentangle the damage of childhood sex caused by social expectations and cultural response from the innate damage of childhood sex. (Even without the obvious ethical considerations of any non observational experiment). Intuitively, I find it hard to believe that there could be any significant innate damage to having sex as early as puberty (when "wild" humans would presumably start). I also do not see an innate mechanism for the age difference to cause significant harm. It is also not at all obvious to me that prepubesent sex would present innate harm; but that, at least, seems plausible (although I still can not think of a mechanism of damage beyond influencing the child's sexuality; which is only a problem if you consider the new sexuality inferior.

agumonkey 9y ago
Not research, personal anecdote, and I'm not even screaming of scandal and morality here. Consider it a cold statement of things that people cannot perceive. And I didn't mean early teen sexual intimacy, but younger than that. A negative event might block the link between desire for affection (give and receive) and physical contact, the root of sensuality. This will delay socialisation desire in hidden ways, causing alienation. A lack of affectionate human relationship distorts your experience of life, friendship, school, work, and just about everything. When you finally resolve that knot (which can be a morbid "psychiatric" period) you realize how much you just couldn't do because that part of your brain was locked.