It is an incredible story about an amazing woman, achieving an impossible feat. My mother heard about her when I was a kid, and I knew her name from news when I was a mother myself. Epic. And Real Life. Dianne Nyad, american long distance swimmer, swam not pools but …
Whether it’s sexual abuse, sexual exploitation, or blackmail with nude images. It’s not just girls. Boys are also affected, devastated. And it’s happening more often than you think. The whole boystoo is a social/cultural concept I myth bust in every “Prevent It!” workshop.
Proteges, shoe-in’s, there’s an age-old practice of preparing someone for a position. The same is true in the CSA world, that is, grooming a child for abuse. This makes them more open to it, or that they may not even see it as abuse (e.g the story pop singer Rita …
It’s massively hard for men to come out about any abuse they suffered as kids. Society pushes stereotypes and norms, like Man-up theology, Boys don’t cry, and one of the worst– ‘Oh, your (teacher, friend’s mom, babysitter..) hit-on you? You should be happy! I’ll never forget when a youth worker …
