Male Survivor CSA Forum

ByCBG Reading Time: 1 minute

There are two further good message board-based support sites out there for male survivors of child sexual abuse. Since the first one launched itself only a week ago, we’ll wait for permission to come back to link up to them.

The other one is MenThriving.org ,which was founded, built by and for adult male survivors of sexual abuse over the age of 21. To balance the walled-off nature of the site there is a Facebook section as well which can be viewed without an invite. We could view it without signing in but to become a fan of the page as you can with this portal and see their updates and announcements, you will need to be logged in to your own Facebook account. The location is;

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=168051679862&ref=ts

– CBG

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