Archives par mot-clé : First sexual relation

Isée Bernateau: is the first sexual relation an aggression?

Here the author will evaluate the implications for treatment of adolescents’ first sexual experiences. These first relations bring forth aggression fantasies, since they embody the link between sexuality and destructiveness in a special way, even when they are consensual. The author hypothesizes that the violence of the infantile sexual permeates these relations, reactivated by the traumatic character that the first sexual relation always has because of its radical newness.

Adolescence, 2022, 40, 1, 123-134.