It does, however, present a strong claim forStephens, 1972; Whiting, 1964; Whiting and Edwards, 1988).
It may tentatively beinferred that under such conditions large numbers of the world's inhabitants of childrenFinally, a third group of writers stress the relevance ofthe circumstance in which childhood exposure to nudity takes place, insisting that results aremediated by such contextual variables as gender, age of child, family climate, culturalFreud and his followers chose the term "primal scenes" to refer to visual or auditoryexposure of children to parental sex, and subsequent fantasy elaborations on theevent (Dahl, 1982).
Despite the identification of such exposure by psychoanalysts andothers as uniquely dangerous to the mental health of kids, there are, once again, scantWe could locate just onePreponderance study (Rosenfeld et al., 1980) and two studies of first response andFollowing adult operation (Hoyt, 1978, 1979).
These writers have clarified the traumatagenic issues byreferring to "a) the erotically charged nature of the exposure, resulting in undischargedlibidinal energy and concomitant stress; b) the sadomasochistic content of fantasymisinterpretation of the event; and c) the exacerbation of oedipal desires and resultantcastration anxiety or other anxieties of retaliation" (Okami, 1995, p. 56).Again, however, the few efforts to validate these notions empirically do not supportpredictions of harm.
(1980) concluded that the extent ofpsychological damage has been exaggerated.Ending by two courses: First, exposure to primal scenes seemed to be insteadProposed that given this frequency of occurrence, variables besides the primal scene quaprimal scene must be responsible for trauma when it occurs.
Second, parents reportedlargely neutral and noncomprehending reactions from their little children [MathematicalExpression Omitted].