The following are the words from a perpetrator:
"For seven or eight weeks, when nothing was taking place, things seemed to feel normal and okay. I did not feel so terrible about myself. And when my daughters and I would be alone and close together, the incest would occur. After the incident would occur, I would feel so ashamed and hate myself so much that I would be strong enough to keep it from occurring for seven or eight weeks, until I would begin again to feel good, then it would reoccur. It was a cycle of mood swings...it is like one who begins a fad diet and thinks that he has overcome his weight problem becuase he didn't pig out for several weeks, only to find himself on a food binge and realize he has not overcome it al all."
Pryor D. W. (1996). Unspeakable acts: Why men sexually abuse children.
... it makes me feel bad to read this not for him but his daughter however I think that it is a good step that he did to talk about it and it seems to me that it illustrates the fact that sexual diviancy is like a drug and perhaps not something that they like to do.
ReplyDeletekyla b.