>>24573784Many of the subjects she interviewed described the sexual relationship as enjoyable, or neutral, before reconceptualizing what happened to them as "abuse" according to society's antisexual moral framework. Subjects claimed to have felt no negative feelings about these events before this reconceptualization occured. She found this surprising, because even she, as a Harvard psychologist, had drank the antisexual koolaid, and expected the subjects who responded to her advertisements to describe these sexual relations as aversive, and coerced/forced from the offset.
This alone was enough to cause massive controversy, leading to people accusing her of promoting pedophilia, despite her being an avowed anti-pedo. She uses biased, antisexual language throughout the book, referring to all adult-child sexual relations as "child sexual abuse".
People don't want to hear about reality: kids are sexual, and they enjoy sex, including with adults.
Your response is stupid and you haven't even bothered to read a short description of OP's book. A child is not a vegetable. A child is fully conscious, and perfectly capable of understanding whether or not they find an experience enjoyable or not.
Antis often make the comparison between sexual activities, and drugs, claiming that similar to drugs, there are negative consequences inherent to sexual activities, despite being pleasurable, which take effect after engaging in them, which a child is incapable of understanding. But apart from the (minor) risk of physical injury and disease, there are no negative consequences of mutual, enjoyed sexual activities beyond subjective reinterpretation, which is heavily mediated by social attitudes towards sex. Most of the subjects in OP's book would not have experienced any negative feelings about the sexual relations they partook in as children, had they lived in a society which was not harshly opposed to adult-child sex.