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Originally Posted by zendawn
I have a vast experience of counselling(sp?) and like I said before it's not only women that get raped (if you get my point).
It takes alot of courage to face your abuser, so I can imagine how hard it would be to talk to (or even be in the presence) of somebody who was the same gender as your abuser.
But that is just a psychological response to a fight or flight situation, one which as a species we need to evolve out off.
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True, it's not only women that get raped (a fact that is often forgotton), but, when people do get raped, they often are frightened of members of the same sex as the rapist. When my Ex (as she is now) was raped, for months afterwards the only blokes she talked to where Me, her dad and her brother in law. She was scared of every other bloke (including ones she had previously been friends with).
You argue it is just a psychological response, and, yes it is. But, Fear is a psychological response.