(1) I know a man who was sexually assaulted. During high school, he woke up at a party to discover another boy giving him oral. His immediate response was violence. The other boy was put in the hospital and the victim got into a lot of trouble. For years, the victim slept with as many girls as possible to “prove” he wasn’t gay. He can’t watch graphic rape scenes (he walked out of Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) and can still be triggered by certain things. Sometimes the topic will come up about
(2) male survivors and he will get a little despondent. Most of the time, he continues on like nothing happened. I am much more open with him about my assault than he is with me about his. I don’t pressure him to talk about it, but part of me wishes he would. The more I talked, the less ashamed of something that was -not- my fault I became. I hope he can reach a fully healed point in his life, if he hasn’t already.
It pisses me off that stuff like this happens…
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