Sexual abuse of children, in all its ghastly forms, is rooted in the deep denial that exists in our society. The perverts who prey on children read their vulnerability as weakness. We adults allow them to, because we are not willing to enter their dark world and confront them as the evil that they are.
I cannot stress enough on what irreparable damage such abuse does to an innocent, somebody whose consciousness does not include manipulation, lies, coercion, and other perversion. It is not only the physical act that terrifies and humiliates, it is the sense of utter helplessness and aloneness that is killing.
So many of the victims suffer from amnesia regarding their abuse, often well into adult life. But the reality is that the memory never dies, it lives on in the subconscious and grows stronger with time. Worst of all, it directs the victim's every choice and action, like an invisible puppet-master.
Is this a price that any human being, much less a child, should have to pay ? That too for another person's few minutes of pleasure, if that is what it can be called ?
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