>>11873707Depends on the individual (some girls who are raped have a very strong mental foundation and they just shrug it off, while some others feel completely violated and destroyed for decades) and it also depends on the circumstances (what actually happened) of course, but most of the victims recover far better if not "treated" at all in any way. When they are "treated" and it's made a big deal out of and their relatives and friends find out and talk about it, and they're taken to a psych doctor etc, then it becomes much more traumatic and a heavier burden. And actually society itself contributes to this, it victimizes the victim further, it drills into their heads that something terrible happened to them and that they are supposed to feel horrible etc. In the past women were on average mentally tougher and didn't /feel/ like victims /in the same way/ that women today do when they experience abusive stuff. They felt bad yeah, but due to how society /didn't/ make abuse into a meme and a public discussion, there was less trauma from it, they felt less like victims. Go even further back in history to pre-Christian times and women were even likely to simply take revenge and kill the rapist, if not by herself then by getting some male friends with her. Not that there even were much rape to begin with in pre-Christian European society of course, it was very rare. In Germanic laws during and before the Viking age, to hurt a woman was punishable by death, or (depending on the exact nature of the crime) being banned from society and losing all rights. And one's honor, and being honorable, was extraordinarily important in society, to both men and women. Doing something like raping a woman meant the man lost all of his honor and reputation, he instantly became scum and trash in the eyes of society.
