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Having touched on many of the known consequences of child sexual abuse, it is important not to exaggerate the effects. Everyone reacts differently to circumstances. In their writings on the initial and long-term effects of sexual child abuse, Browne and Finkelhor¹⁴ warned about over exaggeration. While the mental health industry has described child sexual abuse as “a special destroyer of adult mental health,” their conclusions are largely based on clinical samples and so are not necessarily representative. If that contention were true and the latest findings that indicate that over half of the female population of the world and a third of the males have been abused, a huge segment of our society would be exhibiting destruction of their mental health. That’s just not so. Destruction of mental health is not necessarily a consequence of child sexual abuse.

At the other end of the continuum, we have a pile of studies indicating that child sexual abuse results in little psychological harm. The advocates of adult-child sex, while obviously in the minority, are becoming more and more vocal and can easily skew studies to bolster their agenda.

To me, it’s simply a no-brainer that something as unnatural and traumatic as child molestation (no matter how gentle or sadistic) is going to affect a developing child—but to varying degrees, depending on the individual and individual circumstances.