I was about thirteen when I started letting boys feel me up.

Thank goodness it wasn't real sex.

The church may update its techniques and methods, but it is always in service of the institutional organism. This is one of the reasons why the pedophile priest issue is and will remain an endemic disease in the Catholic Church.

As survivors, we’ve been conditioned to be victims sexually. Many of us have never learned to say no or to set limits on our sexual activities...To heal, it’s important that we take control, that we make active choices concerning if, when, and how we want to explore sexuality. Especially in the beginning, you need to put your own needs about sex ahead of anyone else’s.

What's the matter?" you asked, seizing an idea. "Did I burst your balloon - destroy the fantasy?"

I struggled for a way to answer this without my clothes.

... Well his was very cruel, but loving you'd become a full-time job and I wasn't ready to be unemployed.

There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the alter of monogamy