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  "full_text": "Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 397-1 Filed 10/29/21 Page 26 of 32 Journal of Interpersonal Violence 33(1) \n\n\". . . It was expected that a connection would be found between the child's symptom and the seduction, which was assumed to be the traumatic factor . . .\" (Bornstein, 1946, p. 230). \n\". . . [W]here father or mother, either consciously or unconsciously, elevate the child into a substitute sexual partner or commit real acts of seduction with him . . .\" (A. Freud, 1968, p. 45). \n\"If we assume that the term 'seduction' refers to any kind of sexual encounter, it can range from milder types, such as exposing oneself and enticing the child to follow suit, all the way to forcible rape\" (Finch, 1974, p. 34). \n\"She was then able to use the dolls to reveal the drama of her own seduction and the ensuing family chaos . . .\" (Mrazek, 1980, p. 279). \n\nHere \"seduction\" is not referring to the process by which a child is groomed or seduced but to the offensive event itself. Freud's seduction hypothesis \". . . generalized that the roots of all adult neuroses lay in childhood sexual contacts with adults\" (Gagnon, 1965, p. 177). The vagueness of this use of \"seduction\" makes it impossible to determine which child sexual abuse behaviors are and are not encompassed by the term and suggests that \"seduction\" may mean different specific things to different authors. \n\nAuthors sometimes imply that \"seduction\" does not include violence, as when they distinguish it from rape or other violent assaults, as in these examples: \n\n\"Klein has stated that an experience of seduction or rape by a grown-up person may have serious effects upon the child's psychic development . . .\" (Bender & Blau, 1937, p. 500). \n\"[T]he possible . . . event of seduction, incest, or rape . . .\" (Lewis & Sarrel, 1969, p. 606). \n\"Violence is rarely found to accompany the incestuous act, possibly because seduction, passive compliance, or sexual curiosity or exploration promote such relationships\" (Singer, 1979, p. 8). \n\"Children can be broken much more easily than adults, and the effect on them of torture, hatred, seduction, and rape—or even of indifference, of deprivation of love and care—is the devastating one of developmental arrest . . .\" (Shengold, 1979, p. 537). \n\nAlthough this usage comports with the modern idea of seduction or grooming insofar as it is to be distinguished from the use of force, threats, or violence, we would not today distinguish seduction from rape but rather would view seduction (or grooming) as a means of completing a rape or other sexual offense with minimal resistance or risk of disclosure. \n\nDOJ-OGR-00005893",
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