Re: Rind et al.

I'm not done reading yet, but I have a few comments about the Rind et al. paper. I had a chance to read the full test of this paper some time ago. My memory is a bit fuzzy on it, but in general I think you summarized its main points well. However, there are a few potential corrections. You say that the paper did not consider the issue of consent; I remember otherwise. I'm not sure if they differentiated by consent in the main part of the study (this may have been impossible due to the fact that they were using other people's data, and so could have no influence on the questions asked), but they definitely recommended in the discussion section that future research should attempt to differentiate by consent. In terms of girls having more psychological trauma, i believe they found that when they removed cases of father-daughter incest, the remaining girls showed the same levels of trauma as the boys.

I see you mention the issue of family environment; this was another thing that stood out to me from the study. I think there might have been a statement in there about physical abuse being a better predictor of future psychological state than sexual abuse, but if you mention that I haven't read it yet (I could also not be remembering it right).

Another interesting thing about that study was that they purposely avoided data collected by therapists and in other clinical settings, on the conjecture that data in a mental health treatment context would over-represent people with mental health problems.

I'll keep reading and post more comments later. Thanks for all the time spent on this. You are an asset to the community.