The reason why sexual harm is (correctly) considered a serious case of harm distinct from other harms might be evolutionary—in ancestral environment, being physically injured or hurt some other way might’ve been much less of a predictor of that person’s future than being raped (and possibly also a predictor of a much less seriously bad future).
The reason why sexual harm is (correctly) considered a serious case of harm distinct from other harms might be evolutionary—in ancestral environment, being physically injured or hurt some other way might’ve been much less of a predictor of that person’s future than being raped (and possibly also a predictor of a much less seriously bad future).