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I love Sara, but something was taken from me at the church, something that she can__ relate to. Every time I walk outside I think maybe someone is going to grab me. I take a sip of a glass of water I got out of my own tap and swish it around in my mouth first, like maybe it__ a threat. And I__ starting to understand why Alex walks around on the balls of her feet, why her back muscles are always tensed, like a cat ready to spring.She knows. She gets it. So that__ why I__ going to tell Sara that I__ okay and leave it at that.

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Mindy McGinnis

The Female of the Species

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Even with my bachelor__ degree, I still felt more comfortable at the strip club than anywhere else. And that feeling hit me the very first time I walked through those doors. While I initially starting dancing to avoid eviction, I stayed because I felt more at home in the strip club than I did in college, at church and at my parent__. Not only was I accustomed to feeling degraded, I believed I didn__ deserve any better or that any man would treat me better than the men at the club.

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Elona Washington

From Ivy League To Stripper Life: 10 Lessons Learned

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Since most sexual abuse begins well before puberty, preventive education, if it is to have any effect at all, should begin early in grade school. Ideally, information on sexual abuse should be integrated into a general curriculum of sex education. In those communities where the experiment has been tried, it has been shown conclusively that children can learn what they most need to know about sexual abuse, without becoming unduly frightened or developing generally negative sexual attitudes. In Minneapolis, Minnesota, for example, the Hennepin County Attorney's office developed an education program on sexual assault for elementary school children. The program was presented to all age groups in four different schools, some eight hundred children in all. The presentation opened with a performance by a children__ theater group, illustrating thedifference between affectionate touching, and exploitative touching. The children__ responses to the skits indicated that they understood the distinction very well indeed. Following the presentation, about one child in six disclosed a sexual experience with an adult, ranging from an encounter with an exhibitionist to involvement in incest. Most of the children,both boys and girls, had not told anyone prior to the classroom discussion. In addition to basic information on sexual relations and sexual assault, children need to know that they have the right to their own bodily integity.

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Why Is It So Important to Remember?When you were abused, those around you acted as if it weren__ happening. Since no one else acknowledged the abuse, you sometimes felt that it wasn__ real. Because of this you felt confused. You couldn__ trust your own experience and perceptions. Moreover, others_ denial led you to suppress your memories, thus further obscuring the issue.You can end your own denial by remembering. Allowing yourself to remember is a way of confirming in your own mind that you didn__ just imagine it. Because the person who abused you did not acknowledge your pain, you may have also thought that perhaps it wasn__ as bad as you felt it was. In order to acknowledge to yourself that it really was that bad, you need to remember as much detail as possible. Because by denying what happened to you, you are doing to yourself exactly what others have done to you in the past: You are negating and denying yourself.

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Rape and war, she explained are among the most common causes of post-traumatic stress disorder, and survivors of sexual assault frequently exhibit many of the same symptoms and behaviors as survivors of combat: flashbacks, insomnia, nightmares, hypervigilance, depression, isolation, suicidal thoughts, outbursts of anger, unrelenting anxiety, and an inability to shake the feeling that the world is spinning out of control.

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Jon Krakauer

Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town