Reporting An Offender You Love
After I wrote my memoir, I collaborated on a second book entitled “Beyond Betrayal: Taking Charge of Your Life after Boyhood Sexual Abuse. ” The theme is that what causes trauma in a child abused by someone older, is not so much the physical act, but the betrayal of a relationship. No child grows up with an […]
The First Castration
The first castration occurs in mythology, near the very beginning of the cosmos. Mother Earth Gaea, gave birth to Uranus (Father Sky). Just as Eve in the Bible married Adam, Gaea of the Greek Myths married Uranus. Upon the marraige, Gaea had Father Sky surround herself, so that she would provide a protected home for mortal beings. Their […]
Defenders of the Faith
Child molesters like to place the responsibility for their acts on their victims. A common ploy to accomplish this is a threat. Sometimes the threat is delivered directly to the child: “If you tell anyone I’ll hurt your mommy.” But often the threat is sent in code, or delivered by proxy to a larger audience, […]