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New Study Challenges Assumptions About Child Sexual Abuse Survivors and Intimacy
The conventional wisdom surrounding child sexual abuse has long painted a bleak and deterministic picture of its aftermath. For decades, societal narratives have declared that CSA is so horrendous, so profoundly traumatic, and so psychologically devastating that survivors—who are overwhelmingly women—are bound to develop long-term post-traumatic stress disorder and deep, persistent fears of partner intimacy.…
