Catching up with the final story from the end of last year, a paedophile who was captured when the police reversed the angle of a shop sign in one of his child abuse images was sentenced to six years in Lincoln, England. The Daily Mirror has the story here.
I have managed to be somewhat successful by society’s standard. I am also a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. To assume that must mean I wasn’t that hurt by it, is to tell me that you know nothing of my life, or the lives of thousands of other men like me. Is it any wonder so many don’t come forward and talk about it?
But, as the article below points out, there are too many men in pain, with nowhere to go, for us to not talk about it. They deserve better.
Connection matters more than small behaviors. Loneliness is more damaging to our mental and physical health than small vices, despite the amount of digital space spent talking about what we should and shouldn’t eat, drink, or do with our time. Yet, so many of us make our friendships one of the lowest priorities.
We’re hurting ourselves and each other.
News of the Conneticut Shootings cleared worldwide news schedules yesterday. Before this, the UK government decided that an automatic internet block on viewing porn at the ISP level, forcing those wishing to view adult images to opt in, was impractical. The BBC has the story here along with the historical story crawl.
In a story about the sudden, and unexpected, retirement of Keyon Dooling from the Boston Celtics, Yahoo reveals that he has recently been coming to grips with his past and the struggles of a stressful road life of a professional athlete. You can read the details over at Yahoo. We wish Keyon the best in…
(Editor’s Note – My apologies, I was offline and unable to approve this post by CBK until today.) As three women abducted as teenage girls are freed from their captors in Ohio, the Daily Mail has printed an excellent retrospective of similar cases, including Shawn Hornbeck and dating back to Steven Stayner’s case in the…
