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That's not a safe assumption though, and the dread of waiting to find out whether you've been infected with something awful is a part of why rape is so traumatising. It can take weeks for tests to come back.
Of course not - this is very much hypothetical. I'm more interested in whether people think emotional/psychological trauma would be worse than lifelong physical trauma
My point is that the whole psychological Vs physical trauma question is a false dichotomy when we're talking about sexual assault. Rape can and often does leave a person with lifelong physical trauma