Le temps d'apprendre à vivre, il est déjà trop tard

Kiang Equus kiang

Wild water buffalo Bubalus arnee

Margay (Leopardus wiedii), family Felidae, mother and kitten, Costa Rica

Green Peafowl (Pavo muticus), males, family Phasianidae, order Galliformes, Yunnan, China

ENDANGERED.

Hehe funny red booby bird

It didn’t register for me until recently that my experiences of being forced to strip naked multiple times at the mental hospital to be ‘checked’ when I was 14 was sexual assault, because the people who did it were nurses/doctors who clearly didn’t find me sexually attractive but instead used it as a form of humiliation and control towards children they deemed as ‘unruly’ and ‘uncooperative’ (ie. children who asked to be treated like people). I thought only people who fit into this idea of a child attracted pedo could be child sexual abusers, so I thought my experience didn’t count.

my stepfather would openly sexually harass me and my siblings at dinner while also loving the fantasy of killing pedophiles. whether he personally found our abuse sexually gratifying was frankly irrelevant to whether it traumatized us. whether he would be considered a pedophile or not doesn't change that he committed sexual abuse of children