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Introductions
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welcome to the male survivor forum. you have many people here you can draw support from. what is bugging you right this moment?
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Introductions
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I am new on here and i need some major support. Please help me
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Gay/Bi/Trans Survivors
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Glad you are here Ken. Thanks
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Male Survivors
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Family of Origin, allow me to define the term... Family of Origin: 1) Close relations who rape, sodomize, penetrate, orally rape, and shame me for being homosexual. 2) people who I grew up with who abandoned me. 3) people who I grew up with who l
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Introductions
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Thank you so much for a warm welcome. I've always considered my so completely alone. I almost cried reading your responses. Again, thank you. GB
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Poetry
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thanks for saying so well, what i could not.
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Male Survivors
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Hi guys. Well I'm home from vacation now and it's back to the normal grind. Why do vacations always have to go by so fast? I'd just about rather jump off a fucking bridge than go back to work tomorrow. Oh well, at least I'm employed, right? Ugh! FML
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Poetry
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love this poem. i am that child. i try to play every day. thanks for the reminder.
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Poetry
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the word amatsukami sent me on a long internet journey. quite interesting. one word with so much power. well written. marinan.
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Male Survivors
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LAD, Some of the most humiliating events I can recall centered around my desire to have sex with him and his withholding sex after years of grooming and seduction. He taught me the game, and then convinced me that I was at fault because I became us
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Male Survivors
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(((--))) Healing Hugs. Be well Daniel, and all our other Brothers' Jimmy
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Male Survivors
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are you feeling better, daniel? fresh memories can be like fresh wounds. i still get them. you ok?
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Poetry
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pure love.
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Male Survivors
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on the cynical side. when it comes to betrayal of confidentiality of disclosure... if i want everyone to know about what happened to me, i tell one person my secret in private. the only people who don't talk about it, are the ones who won't eve
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Survivors of Female Abuse
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Originally Posted By: Life's A DreamThis girl was not merely experimenting with you, she was sadistically lashing out at a younger person of the same gender as her own abuser. Yeah, this is what I have to believe. I just can't fathom the possibilit
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Survivors of Female Abuse
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Thank you for sharing your story! It's as close to my own as I've read so far. My abuser was an older stepsister. I can relate almost too well with everything you have experienced. I hope in the coming weeks to be able to share my whole story as you
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Male Survivors
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Welcome Forgive777, We are all Glad you are here, Glad you are seeing a Therapist (or "T" as we refer to them), We hope for the best for you here. I am gay, I live out in the open with my sexuality, I don't hide it. I also support gay ri
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Men Abused/Assaulted as Adults
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odd. you are right about that. i never judge other survivors as i do myself. good insight. this "shame dynamic" you talk about, compelled me to seek danger and prove my "manhood" needlessly over and over again with unecessary
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Male Survivors
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Hi Bryan. Finally have a little time to sit down and do some reading/posting this afternoon. Now that I've read all your replies I don't have a lot to add that wouldn't sound like I was just regurgitating what others have already said or repeating t
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Male Survivors
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That dream where it was normal/natural to feel good about yourself may be a portend* of things to come. *Portend: A sign or warning that something momentous is likely to happen. Jude
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Male Survivors
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My CSA occurred in early puberty, age 13. Puberty actually started at about 11-1/2 but I had no clue what was happening to my body then. Its hard to know how much of my teenaged (and then adult) obsession with sex was a reaction to my being abused, a
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Male Survivors
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Onlyakid, It has been COUNTERPRODUCTIVE in my life to express or think about my previous sexual interaction with my family members as anything other than INCEST. I used to try to understand the feelings of responsibility I possessed. I used to tr
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Male Survivors
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i hate being labelled. i don't like being called gay. i don't like being called homophobic. to ourselves, we are our thoughts. to others, we are our actions.
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Male Survivors
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JayBro and SoccerStar are right. Sometimes as adults survivors will look back on their abusive experience through adult eyes. Why didn't I stop it? Why did I enjoy some of it? Why couldn't I tell the difference between abuse and normal sexual exp
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Male Survivors
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Originally Posted By: MagellanThat sucks to hear. I live in a metro area, and the nearest mega theater complex is like 3 blocks away. The second largest is 10 blocks away. I'm glad I made the decision to move here, sometimes. But I suffer incredibl
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