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more about #marykayletourneau judgingamy: My friend once asked me why on To Catch a Predator, the predators are always men. She wondered if there were women who got caught, and the network dec... more » wennygirl: I was never sexually abused by an adult, but I was by male & female cousins (they were siblings) as a child. They were kids too...the oldest was prob ... more » rubyinthedust: I'm so glad this is being covered. Now I can have actual numbers and statistics (as well as anecdotes) the next time this comes up. My male cousin, w... more » Pantra: I was abused twice by women (teenage girl and old woman) as a very young child and people do tend to express shock and disbelief when I tell them. The... more » thesciencegirl wields the truth like a mighty axe.: i just wanted to say thank you to everyone who shared personal stories on this thread. You're all really brave. Like most people, I know several frie... more » tiredfairy: I find this sort of attitude comes up a lot because of the severe sexism and gender stereotyping we do. Because women don't have penis's, and because ... more » RheaWildfowl: You can't know how much it means to me to see this discussed. I was sexually abused by my mother from infancy into my teens, and was also molested by ... more » sassy: My siblings and I had to go through psych evaluations during the custody battle between my parents, and they were so hesitant to say that the things m... more » ritualtheory: Sometimes it seems as though humans so need to hold on to their proverbial sacred cows that they fight desperately to avoid any information that might... more » Dagneymedea: I have always been disgusted and infuriated by the movie "Rambling Rose" with Laura Dern. In one scene she climbs into bed with a young man, who proc... more » AvantGardenia: I was raped by another woman when I was in college (I went to a women's college) -- the woman was a friend of mine, who was having some serious emotio... more » hollygirl: Dominic Carter, an anchor on our local NY1 station wrote a moving memoir about overcoming sexual abuse by his Mom. She was very mentally ill, but the ... more » LutherNipperkin: A friend adopted the baby of a teenager whose mother whored her out when she was 9 for drug money. Technically the mother didn't make the actual sexu... more » apollonia666: When I was in grad school, one of my closest friends wrote an op/ed for the campus paper about surviving child sexual abuse in response to some events... more » JinxyMcDeath: My friend's father sat on a jury a few years ago that convicted a woman who abused her son AND daughter. They were in their late teens when it finall... more » sydbarrettsaves, emissary of hell: This reminds me of that story posted a while ago about the son who was getting "therapy" sessions from his mother to straighten his penis. more » Blitzgal: I was molested by my female daycare provider. I never told my mother (still haven't, actually), and my brother and I were pulled out of the center be... more » lalaland13: Once I sat in on a child abuse trial where a woman was doing things to her very young son. It was nauseating. The child was so young, a judge decided ... more » Lumbercath: I am a social worker (well, I just graduated), but one of the children in my placement last year was removed from his home because of sexual abuse by ... more » Penny: I feel a bit strange bringing this up, because I have never told anyone, but I was.....I don't even know what to call it....fondled, I guess, by a fem... more » -
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Sexual Abuse By Women: The Crime No One Wants To Investigate
Though awareness of childhood sexual abuse has come a long way in the past few decades, one area remains uncharted: sexual abuse by women. More »
