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Leigh Corfman, 14-Roy Moore, 32  Roy Moore, a judge of questionable character Roy Moore, always smiling  First, a quick story. Yes, a #MeToo. I'm fifteen and am visiting a friend I haven't seen in a long time. We were once best friends, but when we hit high school, no classes together, we didn't keep up. But for some reason I'm there, in her house, and so are about a dozen others. I haven't made it past the kitchen when her father, in a big blue bathrobe, appears. He is a very tall, imposing man, and he's all smiles, very happy to see me, especially. He takes my hand into his, and proceeds to pull it under his bathrobe. I pull free and spit out these words. I cannot believe, to this day, that these words came to me: Go jag off in the john! Then I ran home and told my mom, who told me: Don't tell your father. He'll kill him . So I didn't, and I didn't tell anyone, not for another 20 years. Because that is how long it can be for a person to proces...

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...