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So, sexual assault victim/survivor advocacy is a distinct field that is not "activism", nor is it 12-step based. It occupies territory that has similarities to both clinical/therapeutic counseling and case management (many, but not all, advocates have an academic background and licensure in social work and clinical

Right. I mean, Taylor is operating under the same poorly-informed assumptions about the dynamics of sexual assault involving male victims/survivors as everyone else — so it really does follow that, lacking a more useful framework to talk about his experience, he is scapegoating feminists or "man-hating lesbians" or

"I’m sorry I opened my mouth. I’m sorry I ever said anything about what happened to me."

Some guidelines or protocols suggest anyone in a 72 — or, increasingly, even 96 — hour window can/should be referred for a forensic exam; and I know some programs and institutions have even adopted the philosophy that they will at least attempt evidence collection, at the patient's request, no matter how much time has