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Re:The impact of sexual abuse on female development: a longi... by KarlKemp on Thursday January 13, 2022 @02:11PM (#29925233)
Good if they actually went where the data led them.

Sigmund Freud famously changed his mind at some point: he had so many young female patients with stories of sexual abuse that he decided it must be a rather common fetish among young girls to make up these stories. He just couldn't believe that a third or so of Vienna's upper crust would rape their daughters.

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Re:The impact of sexual abuse on female development: a longi... by phkahler on Thursday January 13, 2022 @03:22PM (#29926296)
>> He just couldn't believe that a third or so of Vienna's upper crust would rape their daughters.

Well that's why they were his patients. Duh. OTOH he wrote a lot about his weird ideas around sex, much of it projection - he apparently was the one with erotic feeling toward his mother. The only things Freud wrote that I agree with turns out were first theorized by someone else.

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