Experienced, (hopefully) emotionally stable adult with a full understanding of the purpose and benefits of the process, versus emotionally developing child with a narrower perspective.
Our culture has a firmly grounded principle that some experiences are traumatic for children but not necessarily for adults, such as sex and violence. It seems odd that it should apply to, say, video games, but not to hands-on animal killing.
Our culture has a firmly grounded principle that some experiences are traumatic for children but not necessarily for adults, such as sex and violence. It seems odd that it should apply to, say, video games, but not to hands-on animal killing.
I feel this point is less correct than your original one.
Is there evidence that sex or violence depicted in video games are traumatic to children (and not to adults)?
In cultures where real-life sex between children is or was the norm, is there evidence that it was often traumatic to them? (What is the definition of ...
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