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RandySF

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Sun May 24, 2015, 07:05 PM May 2015

Duggar-endorsed literature: Abuse victims damage themselves by being bitter

The document suggests that a victim of sexual abuse is damaging themselves by being “bitter” about what happened.

It also seems to imply the victim should be feeling guilt about what happened. The reasons for this guilt may be “disobedience” or “not reporting it,” it states.

In addition, the document references that there is a potential for “moral vaccination.”

That term is described in an article by Recovering Grace:

Moral vaccination” seems to reference a concept Gothard shared in seminars and conferences in the 1980s, when he told the story of a woman who struggled with unwanted sexual thoughts and eventually was raped. In the anecdote, Gothard described the rape and the woman’s subsequent aversion to sexuality as inoculation against lust.




http://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniemcneal/a-homeschooling-program-promoted-by-the-duggars-has-troublin#.efyP6kEDL
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Duggar-endorsed literature: Abuse victims damage themselves by being bitter (Original Post) RandySF May 2015 OP
I wonder if that applies to victims of human trafficking, too. woo me with science May 2015 #1
Good grief shenmue May 2015 #2
and men that have sexual thoughts? What about them? Are they to be raped to teach them liberal_at_heart May 2015 #3

liberal_at_heart

(12,081 posts)
3. and men that have sexual thoughts? What about them? Are they to be raped to teach them
Sun May 24, 2015, 09:14 PM
May 2015

not to have sexual thoughts as well?

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