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Controversies In Sexual Abuse Survivors Stories

While sharing sexual abuse survivor stories can be helpful in the healing process for survivors, and raising awareness to prevent future abuses, sometimes controversies arise. Sometimes it is regarding the appropriateness of certain stories with particular age groups, or the possibility of tainting the community juror population. But most sinister are the cases in which the supposed sexual abuse survivor’s story made be a whole cloth fabrication.

Perhaps the most notorious examples of this are the sexual abuse survivor stories that arose from the recovered memories craze of the 1980′s and 1990′s. Hundreds of books and thousands of accusations came from this pop-psychology practice that became popular among hypnotists. Even a few celebrities, like Roseanne Barr, claimed to have recovered memories of abuse from this practice, but little corroborating evidence has ever been found. Particularly noteworthy were the accusations by patients who claimed their parents had forced them to participate in ritual sexua

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