Me, too
It isn't a new story, not to me. Not a new thing, sexual assault, rape, harassment, but having listened to dozens of victims (fine, survivors) tell their stories over dozens of years, surprisingly it never gets boring. A man in his thirties talks about his experience as a young boy, age six, and a rabbi (rabbi!) who took his youth. You see, it is not only the priests, this is cross-cultural. Or a woman in her twenties. She writes the details in long-hand, cannot talk about what happened to her. She is married now, hates sex. Another man is introduced to porn and sex as a schoolboy, an older cousin. My patient cannot maintain a relationship, cannot finish what he starts, hardly ever initiates. He is addicted to online porn. A prostitute tells me that she's had sex with hundreds of men, was told that it was all she was good for. She believed it for the longest time. A mother brings in her daughter, says that incest is in the family and she fears that her daughter has been moleste...