>i’ve sort of blogged on this before, back on 360. some of you might remember. but i’ve been thinking a lot about it today, for various reasons.
according to RAINN, 1 in 6 women and 1 in 33 men will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime. that is a scary statistic. just looking at your friends list, that means that you know someone who’s been sexually assaulted. and seeing as how i only have this open to contacts, then it’s definitely certain that you know at least one person. me.
now, in my case, it was a boyfriend. 73% of rape victims know their assailants. that’s another statistic from the RAINN website. that, too, is scary.
i’m not sharing this to get sympathy or for you all to tell me how brave i am. i don’t feel brave. at the time this occurred, i didn’t even think of it as rape. even now, what probably haunts me more is the verbal and emotional abuse than anything physical that happened to me. no, don’t call me brave. my experience is nothing compared to what some have been through. that seems a million times worse, to me. you are supposed to be able to trust your parents, and to have a parent destroy that trust in that way, that is just unspeakable.
http://www.RAINN.org/
http://rasasc.bizview.co.uk/
http://www.casac.ca/
http://www.secasa.com.au/
more international resources can be found here.
here's my gripe... 