News Finding: The light of truth has not fully dispelled the darkness.
Paper Finding: It is interesting within this syndemic framework to note that from a consideration of CSA alone, relationships to major psychological,substance use, and sexual health impairments emerge, without reference to other developmental challenges and independent of adult PTSD (which was covaried in these analyses).
News Context: Many years pass before Diaz finally "stumbled upon a great therapist." The light of truth has not fully dispelled the darkness. The abuser of his boyhood continues to exert power over the man because the secrecy continues to fuel the shame.
Paper Context: Our findings,that characteristics (i.e., complexities) of CSA are strongly related to increased odds of meeting diagnostic criteria for current PTSD in adulthood and relationships between these characteristics and impairment, independent of PTSD, allow us to suggest that CSA-related PTSD is one of the mechanisms of syndemic productionratherthanCSAitself.Moreaccurately,CSArepresents adevelopmentalvulnerabilityforgay,bisexual,andothermenwho have sex with men, which contributes to the mechanisms of syndemic production that may or may not include adult post-traumatic stress responses. It is interesting within this syndemic framework to note that from a consideration of CSA alone, relationships to major psychological,substance use, and sexual health impairments emerge, without reference to other developmental challenges and independent of adult PTSD (which was covaried in these analyses). These findings underscore the enduring, damaging, and often devastating effects, across multiple areas of adult functioning, of sexual trauma perpetrated on gay and bisexual young boys and emerging adolescents.