Rape Survivors use science on involuntary erogeny to empower them - why not use science of disgust too?
Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2026 7:43 pm
Hi Zarkle here, another thread discussing strategies to spread my research on disgust applied to a completely different audience. Survivors of coercive rape and sexual abuse regardless if they are male or female, under 18 or over 18. And it may also apply to non coercive cases with deception and blackmail. Obviously rape exist and it is terrible and if we filter for coercive cases we realize those are always the worst and in the literature/documentary about how rape harms its victims we learn a common recover technique that trauma coaches and therapist tell survivors to help mentally recover from rape.
The technique is a therapist/counselor giving education on autonomous sexual functions - that just because their vagina's lubricated or penis got erect or they orgasmed and felt erotic stimuli during rape does not mean consent and that these bodily functions are largely autonomous (automatic) and we have very little control over them manually. This helps the victim of rape learn that just because her vagina lubricated or his penis got erect does not make it wanted. Brain's consent not body parts doing automated things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC8_BNAIdP4
Now, if this is a common technique to help rape and CSA victims recover just imagine what would happen if science of disgust was injected into the mix. The science of disgust does not justify rape or harm, Or go along with this narrative but it adds something valuable.
The emotion of disgust plays a huge role in traumatizing survivors, they so often report disgust as seen here
https://www.reddit.com/r/adultsurvivors ... ?q=disgust
The neuroscience is saying overpowering disgust can be triggered by anything from brutal rape to references to gay porn to a non gay person, because the research of Charmaine Borg, and Peter de Jong imply when the sexual brain is inactive (not running) it has a figurative bodyguard set to flood the brain with disgust signals on any unsolicited sexual feedback that unwantedly active it. Successful sexual arousal is when the firewall is successfully bypassed by norm abiding sexual behavior, disgust is the firewall response to any unwanted sexual stimuli. Natural selection set the firewall bar too damn high so it sometimes fires at things like consensual gay relationships and trans people in modern society and also things such as harmless flirting that is unwanted. Our brains unfortunately will flood with extreme disgust over unwanted cat calls, dirty jokes, disagreeable politics and violent rape. That's the problem parts of the brain can't tell the difference between real harm and disgust reflexes.
source : https://mindwise-groningen.nl/disgust-a ... ng-forces/ https://link.springer.com/article/10.10 ... 009-9529-z
If Survivors of sexual abuse knew the science that any unwelcome sexual stimuli just being mentioned has the potential to cause extreme disgust, "like a dirty joke" it could at least educate them to understand that the extreme disgust factor is natural and help them heal quicker through education on the "why did this happen part". Once again this is not a justification for sexual harm or being pervy, just an implication. If survivors are educated by trauma therapist on involuntarily sexual functions, why aren't they educated by trauma therapist on disgust! This could help them get better by knowing disgust is a default response of the sexual brain. I understand no matter how I write this antis can twist this message against me but I am not defaming survivors.
The technique is a therapist/counselor giving education on autonomous sexual functions - that just because their vagina's lubricated or penis got erect or they orgasmed and felt erotic stimuli during rape does not mean consent and that these bodily functions are largely autonomous (automatic) and we have very little control over them manually. This helps the victim of rape learn that just because her vagina lubricated or his penis got erect does not make it wanted. Brain's consent not body parts doing automated things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC8_BNAIdP4
Now, if this is a common technique to help rape and CSA victims recover just imagine what would happen if science of disgust was injected into the mix. The science of disgust does not justify rape or harm, Or go along with this narrative but it adds something valuable.
The emotion of disgust plays a huge role in traumatizing survivors, they so often report disgust as seen here
https://www.reddit.com/r/adultsurvivors ... ?q=disgust
The neuroscience is saying overpowering disgust can be triggered by anything from brutal rape to references to gay porn to a non gay person, because the research of Charmaine Borg, and Peter de Jong imply when the sexual brain is inactive (not running) it has a figurative bodyguard set to flood the brain with disgust signals on any unsolicited sexual feedback that unwantedly active it. Successful sexual arousal is when the firewall is successfully bypassed by norm abiding sexual behavior, disgust is the firewall response to any unwanted sexual stimuli. Natural selection set the firewall bar too damn high so it sometimes fires at things like consensual gay relationships and trans people in modern society and also things such as harmless flirting that is unwanted. Our brains unfortunately will flood with extreme disgust over unwanted cat calls, dirty jokes, disagreeable politics and violent rape. That's the problem parts of the brain can't tell the difference between real harm and disgust reflexes.
source : https://mindwise-groningen.nl/disgust-a ... ng-forces/ https://link.springer.com/article/10.10 ... 009-9529-z
If Survivors of sexual abuse knew the science that any unwelcome sexual stimuli just being mentioned has the potential to cause extreme disgust, "like a dirty joke" it could at least educate them to understand that the extreme disgust factor is natural and help them heal quicker through education on the "why did this happen part". Once again this is not a justification for sexual harm or being pervy, just an implication. If survivors are educated by trauma therapist on involuntarily sexual functions, why aren't they educated by trauma therapist on disgust! This could help them get better by knowing disgust is a default response of the sexual brain. I understand no matter how I write this antis can twist this message against me but I am not defaming survivors.