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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Poet who wrote (1779)	1/19/2001 7:37:49 PM
From: E	Respond to of 82486

I don't think of myself as a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, but I certainly was one. I don't think it had much effect on me. You know, so many traumatic things happened in my childhood, what was one more, really. I was very interested in sex as a child before the incident I described, and engaged in sexual exploration with children my own age ("playing doctor," youshowmeyours, that sort of thing) before the incident. Which, as I said, I, unlike my sister, invited. Getting caught in this play, and punished, and humiliated, caused much, much more trauma than the physically painful abuse by the teenager. Of course I didn't understand what I was "inviting," in that incident. I suspect that my premature sexuality was a reaction to the puritan atmosphere in our home. I never saw my parents naked, and they didn't get naked in front of each other. Sex was not discussed, though they tried to say in response to questions what the books of the era said parents should say to their children. But it was all so cathected and mysterious. It was really as if sex didn't exist, or shouldn't.