Trigger warning. "It's like the abuser's evil was shared with me and in a sense I became one with it." The sexual intimacy a woman has with her husband means that they are "one flesh" — whatever that phrase means. For me, the pollution of an abuser having sexual intercourse with me affected me to… Continue reading Sleeping with the enemy… and being ‘one flesh’ with an abuser who sexually assaults children
Gender & DV: the key facts
The problem of domestic/family intimate partner violence is largely a problem of violence by men against women and children. Comparing men's violence against female partners & ex-partners and women's violence against male partners & ex-partners, men's violence: Is far more common Has much worse impacts Is far less likely to be self-defence If we only… Continue reading Gender & DV: the key facts
