Here's an article on how child predators learn their orientation BEHAVIORS. It jibes with the Canadian university review above and even concludes its likely "
a form of social learning took place"...
Mayo Clinic 2007
One of the most obvious examples of an environmental
factor that increases the chances of an individual becoming
an offender is if he or she were sexually abused as a child.
This relationship is known as the “victim-to-abuser cycle”
or “abused-abusers phenomena.” 5,23,24,46...
...
why
the “abused abusers phenomena” occurs: identification with the aggressor, in which the abused child is trying to gain a new
identity by becoming the abuser;
an imprinted sexual
arousal pattern established by early abuse; early abuse
leading to hypersexual behavior; or a form of social learning took place http://www.drrichardhall.com/Articles/pedophiles.pdf
It essentially works the same way as bullying, then.
Ask any clinical psychologist, and he/ she will confirm that most children who are bullied eventually metamorphose into bullies themselves in what could be described as a bit of a sadomasochistic process. A hazing ritual, so to speak.
The way it works is that the bullied child needs acceptance, so no matter how deeply physically, emotionally and/ or spiritually the child has been crippled by the bullies in question, the child learns that bullying is a perfectly normal behavior, and he/ she thus continues to seek their adulation at his/ her own peril. The bullies in turn eventually respect the bullied child and/ or accept him/ her into their gang.
In other words, the bullies in question represent the
sadists and the bullied child, the
masochist.
Presto! A new bully is born! And the sadomasochistic victim-to-abuser cycle continues.
One need not look very deeply at the process or overanalyze it to see how it works every day in the adult world, as he/ she can see the very same process afoot in:
- College fraternities. Brutal hazing of new pledges.
- The military. Drill sergeants aren't known for being the nicest guys, are they? But wow, they sure do make some outstanding killers.
- Street gangs. A much more vicious example of the college fraternity paradigm.
- Prisons. One learns really quickly not to beat his/ her chest when he/ she begins serving his/ her sentence, because no matter how big and/ or tough he/ she believes himself/ herself to be. there's always going to be someone there in the clink who is bigger and/ or tougher than him/ her. But if the new prisoner defends himself/ herself, then he/ she earns the other inmates' respect.
- Pro sports locker rooms. Anyone who has any cognitive abilities and who remembers the Miami Dolphins' 2013 locker room charade can surely see how much it resembles the behaviors among prison inmates.
Along with the bullying process among children, the above five adult environments IMHO exemplarily demonstrate how the victim-to-abuser cycle mentioned in the links you gave us in your opening post work with regard to more than learned
sexual behaviors.
Simple as that, really — like your thread title says, Silhouette.
