Thank you for sharing this, and for linking to that article. I have also felt uncomfortable with the narrative of “broken” which surrounds sexual abuse in particular, as if it has been universally decreed that it is the WORST possible crime, because how could we ever make such a judgement?

When I was 4 or 5 a neighbor boy, around the age of 8, decided to play “husband/wife” with me. According to him we were in jail and couldn’t get out, but because we were married we would have sex to pass the time (it came out later this little boy was being molested by his moms boyfriends). Our clothes stayed on, but…