Episode 147

Sword and Scale

Incongruity

History, Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary

4.0 • 63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Sexual child abuse is so widespread that the numbers are astounding. We seem to forget that the threat is omnipresent and can come in the form of another troubled child with little to no parental supervision. Girls are typically more pretected, more sheltered from these sorts of dangers, but when this sort of abuse happens to a boy the repressed shame, guilt and anger can last a lifetime.Do you have a personal story to tell about your experience with sexual abuse, physical/psychological abuse, or domestic violence? Tell others like you about it on SurvivingThis.com.

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0:00.0	Sword and scale contains adult themes and violence and is not intended for all audiences.
0:06.3	Listener discretion is advised.
0:13.8	Hi, I'm your host, Mike Boudet.
0:17.0	This is going to be a very different kind of episode.
0:24.6	Usually we feature stories of extreme crimes, crimes that thankfully are outside the realm of most of our collective human experience.
0:29.6	But there's a crime that affects one in every five women and one in every 71 men in this country.
0:45.8	For both sexes, roughly about 45% of the time, almost half, the perpetrator is an acquaintance.
0:48.6	The numbers are staggering.
0:52.1	There are millions of stories like this.
0:59.5	And right now, many of you listening know exactly how real and present and widespread the threat really is, because you've experienced it firsthand.
1:06.5	We did an episode about two years ago, episode 99, which talked about male sexual child abuse.
1:13.6	After that episode aired, we were inundated with hundreds of phone calls and voicemails from
1:18.6	people just like the one you're about to hear on this episode. The calls never stopped.
1:25.6	They still trickle in to this day.
1:34.3	Many of you were appreciative that we told those stories the way that we did, allowing the survivors to share their experience in their own words.
1:39.3	We listened to every one of those voicemails, every single one.
1:47.0	Many of you out there just felt
1:55.0	alone. You felt like you couldn't tell anyone about these experiences. So many of you said you'd never told anyone until now. You felt shame, you felt guilt, embarrassment. You're worried about what others think of you.
2:07.2	But there are millions of others out there, just like you. You can help them by sharing your experience.
2:16.5	So we set up a new call in line and a website.
2:21.0	It's called SurvivingThis.com.
2:23.6	If you want to share your story with others like you, you can do so by calling 850-88-8-611.
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