Sexually Abused Men - Is Your Husband One of Them?

Love Among the Ruins

By David France
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the October 2008 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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For the one out of six American men who were sexually abused as children, the results are always present, deeply corrosive, and wildly contagious. David France talks to a few brave men and the women who married them.

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