Monday, November 18, 2013

[wzptvgub] Importance and expectation of control

Survivors of rape report that the feeling of not being in control, having the control taken away from them, is very psychologically painful with lasting psychologically harmful effects.

What causes a person to expect to be in control, and to attach such a strong importance to it? 

Inculcating an expectation of control helps enforce social barriers of who is permitted to have sex with whom: simply program a person to prefer to have sex with only one side of the barrier, and the individual responsibility -- the expectation of control -- of achieving those preferences maintains the social separation.

Do people with less expectation of control suffer less psychological damage from rape?  Can education change a person's expectation of control to decrease harm?

The expectation of control about sex seems a dangerous notion, given that the mating instinct is an ancient and extremely powerful force of nature, akin to a hurricane or earthquake.

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