Invisible Girls: The Truth About Sexual Abuse--A Book for Teen Girls, Young Women, and Everyone Who Cares About Them
Patti Feuereisen
Language: English
Pages: 256
ISBN: 1580051359
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Invisible Girls weaves together powerful first-person narratives with gentle guidance and seasoned insights to help girls through the maze of feelings that swirl around the abuse experience. This gives every young woman who struggles with the scars of sexual abuse the courage that comes from knowing that she is not alone, while other girls come out from behind the veil of secrecy to become vibrant, healthy, and whole.
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boys blow jobs. In fact, a girl that age can experience mild to severe physical discomfort, such as gagging, choking, and nausea, if she tries to perform oral sex. Many girls have gagged when forced to swallow semen. It can also cause real emotional turmoil. Most girls just aren’t ready. MYTH: Twelve- to fifteen-year-old girls are in command of their sexual appeal and deliberately use it to manipulate boys. They feel sexy, beautiful, and powerful and want to turn guys on. TRUTH: Twelve-
during adolescence and early adulthood than later on in life. It makes sense. We are at our most resilient during these times; we’re still growing and changing. If you can talk about trauma while you’re still young, still figuring out who you are, it simply can’t plant its roots as deep. You see, it’s the secrets that really do us the most harm. In all these girls I felt an urgency to get better and a resilience that simply was not present in the older women who had let their abuse eat away at
wasn’t going to burden my mom with my problems. I believed I was her lifeline. On Friday I finally went to school. I saw Lee Ann in the halls and she said “hi” really nonchalantly. I couldn’t believe it. I was practically shaking the whole time, but I did draw up the courage to ask her why she had left me alone with those assholes in the park. She said, “Oh, they said they had a great time with you!” That froze me. I just avoided Lee Ann from then on. I didn’t know whom I could trust. I spent
school, so nobody was really paying attention to me. I used to cover up my body with double layers of T-shirts and everything, so I guess nobody really knew how thin I had become. No one knew, either, that I would vomit after every meal. I know it sounds awful, but the vomiting felt like getting rid of all the bad stuff that had been building up inside me. I was scared and tormented by the rape, but I never told anyone what had happened to me. I continued to do well in school, avoided most kids,
expensive gifts for sex. The man who repeatedly rapes his daughter or stepdaughter under threat of denying everything—or worse—is no different from the pimp who keeps girls working for him under the threat of injury—or worse. In this country, we don’t lock up johns, we lock up prostitutes. That tells us pretty much everything we need to know. Perhaps these men are not going home and molesting their daughters, but how much better is it that they’re paying for sex with girls of fourteen, fifteen,
