Yeah, it is entirely possible, but there are things that can help, like therapy and people who care enough about you to help you and see that you help yourself.

Instead LKH advocates more sex to 'cure' (and I use that word lightly) someone of their tragic past. That is beyond WTF, although as you've said it is becoming a theme to the books.

I wonder if we did a count exactly how many characters have been raped/abused and been told/discovered that the Crotch-o-Doom is the best way to heal them. I'd check it out, but I took all my LKH books to the charity shop yesterday.