Hi folks, A paper presented by the authors of the meta-analysis (Rind, Rtomovitch, and Bauserman) can be found at: http://www.duende.demon.co.uk/rotterdam.html Rind gave the opening address at a conference called The other side of the coin - a study conference held in the Netherlands. Below is the preamble to the conference: (Rough translation from the Dutch)-- Today it's hard to imagine, but it's less than twenty years ago that sexual love between youths and adults was discussed almost only in a positive sense. When experiential experts started to get out in the open about sexual violence that they had undergone in their youth, they originally had much hardship to get a hearing. Only gradually it was realized how intensely such experiences can determine a person's life. Nowadays stories and theories about sexual abuse fully dominate the image of sexuality in which children and youths are involved; even when talking about children of different ages it seems that the theme can only be dealt with in binary terms of perpetrators and victims. And, not to be forgotten, the therapists who set themselves up as the only ones who can make these two identity categories function in society again. The pendulum has completely swung to the other side, so now those with positive experiences and research results are give little or no hearing. To, after a long time, shed light on this side of the coin again, the church institution KSA has organized a study conference, in which the American psychologists Bruce Rind and Robert Bauserman (under reserve) have been invited as main speakers In professional circles Bauserman and Rind in recent years have distinguished themselves by their publications of several meta-analyses on the topic. In a time where almost every detective, public prosecutor, politician, therapist or priest is convinced that every sexual experience of a youth by definition results in severe, lasting damage, it is worthwhile to test this 'opinion chic'. In the first place to test it to the meta-analyses of Rind and Bauserman and those of their predecessor in the eighties, Larry Constantine, but also to the insights of Dutch scientists and social workers who have not fully conformed to fashionable ideas when their own experiences and insights appear to be contrary to them. -- linda m. woolf, ph.d. associate professor - psychology webster university main webpage: http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/ Holocaust and genocide studies pages: http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/holocaust.html womens' pages: http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/women.html gerontology pages: http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/gero.html mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
