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[–] 14502667? 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Remember that story in the news a year or so ago about a high school girl who "slept with 25 football players in the bathroom" ? Headlines specifically said she "slept with 25" boys/men but upon actually reading the horrific story the mom stated that the girl was a trafficking survivor and what happened was she was pressured to sleep with one player (or something like that) and the rest of the team saw how accessible she was (dissocistion, learned behavior) and all took their turns... I specifically remember this story because it was so horrifying and this was way before the trafficking stuff became mainstream. I thought it was weird that it was in Texas, that the mom got her back, that it seemed like such a real and normal thing. And of course the media's disgusting sexism portraying the girl as a slut instead of a massive victim to previous trafficking and arguable rape.

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[–] 14502919? ago 

I don't remember that particular story, but I was around it my entire life without knowing it. I know that sounds unbelievable, but it's crazy how much you can not see when it's wrapped up in churches, restaurants, your own parents (not quite sure if they were my parents or not tbh), your parents' friends, etc. Like, every girl I'd dated had their first sexual experience at 12, 13 years old. Many times, with the sons of preachers. I fooled around with my first girlfriend in the guest house of a friend of my dad's (allegedly) mansion, in a room that I didn't realize -- until this movement, actually -- was for child rape. A room with nothing but waterproof carpet, and a shallow bathtub. My mother (probably not actually my mother) took me to a doctor when I was very young -- 4, I think -- and the memory of the rectal thermometer has never left me. I didn't realize what that was until, again, this movement.

Texas is absolutely fucked.

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[–] 14605540? ago 

ugh :/ :( i'm so sorry. at least we have knowledge now.