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Introductions
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Welcome Kyrob, You are in good company here. We are men in all shapes and sizes, all walks of life, all ages, all orientations, and from several different countires. But the one thing that unites us is our childhood experiences, and how that affecte
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Male Survivors
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i am really uncomfortable with hugs. i do the hug where and when expected. to avoid looking uncomfortable, i end up feeling uncomfortable. with females it feels fake, or sexual. always inappropriate. don't like the smell (perfume, hairspray, b
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Introductions
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Originally Posted By: DolphinsFan76I am trying to figure this all out 25 years after my abuse's occurred. Welcome Dolphinsfan, Many of us waited years before we had the strength, and perhaps desperation, to disclose our childhood sexual abuse. You
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Welcome kyrobo07, we had different stories but mine is similar to your in some ways. Even though everyone's story is different, we have shared hurts and can help each other. Here you can find support, and healing is possible. Welcome Brother!
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Male Survivors
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Originally Posted By: cant_remember That victim advocate letter is from what year? I think it's 1988. It's not in front of me right now. It was only a few years after I remembered it. Puffer
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Male Survivors
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Well done victor! Hugs ARE more intimate and difficult than porn, you're right. Hugs indicate that we can become vulnerable to someone we trust. Porn does not ask for that. Hugs can mean we want to reach out and support another, porn does not care ab
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Male Survivors
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i feel so much the same as you, puffer.
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Male Survivors
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(((( Puffer )))) That victim advocate letter is from what year? Cant
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Introductions
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welcome. we can learn from each other. as long as you keep joining in and stepping out of your comfort zone, i envision good things ahead for you.
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Introductions
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I just joined today and am stepping out of my comfort zone of silence to introduce myself. I'm 33 years old and am trying this as a way to hopefully meet others, understand that there are other people besides me who are trying to overcome. From bir
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Off Topic
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Up until the age of 11, I had an idyllic childhood. It was post War America and a time of tremendous economic growth. I was the last of the baby boomers and it was the middle of the Cold War. I had a great set of parents. When I was five I got a batt
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Male Survivors
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Why do I feel a need to answer this? As a 12-year-old boy I went through something very horrible. I don't urge people to read the story because it is apparently damaging to even read it. But I felt then and I still feel I was abandoned to what happ
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Books, Music & Films for Survivors
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Books, Music & Films for Survivors
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Books, Music & Films for Survivors
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Books, Music & Films for Survivors
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Books, Music & Films for Survivors
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Men Abused/Assaulted as Adults
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Been a while since I last posted here. Been doing pretty well mostly.. flashbacks sometimes, but I'm getting pretty good at riding them out.. difficult to explain how. Anyway, what's hitting me now is that for the second time I'm dealing with heari
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Male Survivors
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Originally Posted By: victor-victim "telling the truth" became as easy as breathing. Heh. Funny. To quote my father's recent statement to me: "You lie like you breathe"
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Male Survivors
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I never valued honesty. It was very difficult to see it as anything but an invitation for attack. However, Since I got sober (about 20 years) I have tried to be honest. I rarely am able to be honest when I understand what happened through my del
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Sexual Identity Issues
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I'm a bit surprised so few of you know anything about OCD. I had very severe OCD and HOCD as a child. I thought it was lately en vogue to feature it on reality shows and crap like that. Hmmm. I guess word hasn't gotten out as much as I thought. Anyw
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Welcome Dolphins, I took hope you find the support and the similarities in our stories. From the time of my pornographic session with my mother and her photographer friend it took me 25 years to describe what happened. It is only then that my ther
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by Life's A Dream
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Originally Posted By: victor-victimin a way, i did "grow up" when my father disappeared for ten years. a frozen moment. this arrested development caused me to never "grow up". sex and violence made me more than a child. i alre
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Male Survivors
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Hi Traveler, Yea, abusers usually do work really hard to project outwardly the opposite of what is going on inwardly. They are more concerned about who they are publicly than who they are privately. Some abusers really believe the lies they projec
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