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Posts tagged with rape
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GAY BOYS RAPED AND DETAINED
It started with the gangs and what is called corrective rape in Central America. It would morph into government police and corrective rape at a police station in a suburb of El Salvador. Javier and Rafael had had enough. When the gangs and the cops represent the combined presence of…
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Men On Men: Tim Barrus: NY Times
I don’t get sports. Never have. Never will. What is it that my masculinity hinges on a stupid game like golf. You follow a little ball around and you hit it. In high school, I was sexually abused in a locker room. I did not go back to that horrid…
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After the Rape is a Slow, Lonely Death, and a Grim-Visaged Dirge
It took him a long time to understand what had happened to him. Slow. Slow. It was as if he couldn’t blink. He couldn’t move. He couldn’t scream. He couldn’t do anything. Slow. Slow. Ninety percent of the boys in the developed world who have been raped multiple times will…
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Tim Barrus: Rape in the War in Central America
Jandro was raped while his family was forced to watch as the gang – Mara Salvatrucha – that had invaded his village, attacked families at random who lived in the hills of Guatemala. The nearest city to where Jandro lived, El Estor, is fifty miles away. Entire communities in the…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times: Boys Raped
Some kids have never had real parents. They have always parented themselves. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/16/style/snowplow-parenting-scandal.html?comments#permid=31096013 College admission? I work with young adolescent boys with HIV. In rural Appalachia. Reading about parenting is like reading about Mars. Every boy has been raped. You think not. Overly dramatic. Yet rape is a way of…