Question 1

What childhood experiences lead to Sex as a Movie?

Accepted Answer

People with Sex as a Movie dating style often experienced: Abusive parent, Authoritarian parent or family member, Chronic exposure to parental sexual behavior, Chronic illness or disability in the family, Chronic lying in the family, Chronic manipulation, Controlling parent, Critical parent, Disciplinarian parent, Emotional abuse, Emotional neglect, Emotionally distant or unavailable parent, Enmeshed parent, Exposure to age-inappropriate sexual content, Exposure to parental infidelity, Exposure to parental sexual behavior, Family history of extreme poverty, hunger, cold, displacement, homelessness, Family history of incest, Family member born out of wedlock or from incestuous relationship, Family secrets, skeletons in the closet, Fear-based or authoritarian parenting style, Financial struggles, Gaslighting, Household culture of secrecy, "Don’t talk about it", Hunger, Hypersexualized home environment, Indifferent parent, Infidelity by one or both parents, Invalidating parent, Lack of boundaries, Lack of love, Manipulative parent, Nagging parent, Narcissistic abuse, Narcissistic parent, Needy parent, No safe adult to turn to for emotional support, One parent frequently absent, Parent chronically unemployed, Parent with frequent/multiple romantic partners in the home, Parent with secrets about their sexual identity, Parent working long hours/multiple jobs, Parental cut-off from their own background or cultural roots, Parental emotional unavailability, Parental sex work, Personal stigma due to confusing birth circumstances (non-marital, unclear or secretive parentage etc)., Poverty, Punishing parent, Rejecting parents or family, Religious trauma cult-like environment, Reverse-parenting/parentification, Scapegoating, Scolding, verbal abuse, put-downs in the family, Secrecy around family identity, adoption, paternity, etc., Self-centered parent, Severe poverty, Shame-based parenting, Toxic parent, Toxic parenting, Unavailable parent, Unloving parent, Withholding parent

Question 2

How does childhood trauma create Sex as a Movie patterns?

Accepted Answer

Sex as a Movie develops as an adaptive response to specific childhood experiences, helping individuals cope with difficult family dynamics.

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