When I had the idea of asking women to tell me the stories
they found most difficult to tell, I knew I was entering uncharted
waters. I knew it because I had experienced the same silencing myself.
Yet rational, grown-up me knew perfectly well that I had
done nothing wrong. I had behaved as a patient behaves with a doctor. It
was the GP who had behaved appallingly and broken our unspoken
contract. Yet, somehow, I had shouldered both the shame and the blame.
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Alarming rate of university sexual assaults revealed
Human Rights Commission report reveals one in five students are sexually harassed at university. In my early 20s I was sexually molested by a GP while he was inserting an IUD. For decades I was unable to tell anyone what had happened to me. Every time I thought about the incident I felt hot with shame.https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4184472111856999279#editor/target=post;postID=4248805477530116786