Charities that work with victims of torture rarely put actual victims in front of cameras to try to drive donations, as they’re rarely sympathetic, in large part due to visible mental and physical consequences of the abuse they suffered. Adults who were victims of severe and prolonged child abuse are a good example of this as well.
Additional datapoint, researchers studying ‘ability to read emotions in faces’ found that incarcerated serial rapists were on average the best at it, and victims of sexual assault were among the worst. If I remember correctly, the paper contained a categorical refusal to speculate further about a predator-prey dynamic.
Charities that work with victims of torture rarely put actual victims in front of cameras to try to drive donations, as they’re rarely sympathetic, in large part due to visible mental and physical consequences of the abuse they suffered. Adults who were victims of severe and prolonged child abuse are a good example of this as well.
Additional datapoint, researchers studying ‘ability to read emotions in faces’ found that incarcerated serial rapists were on average the best at it, and victims of sexual assault were among the worst. If I remember correctly, the paper contained a categorical refusal to speculate further about a predator-prey dynamic.