This is a long overdue and amazingly important book, by a psychologist who has extensive clinical experience treating male victims of child sexual abuse, it explodes the myth that sexual abuse of male children is rare, or that the consequences are less serious than for girls.
It is very powerfully written and laced with personal stories of both survivors and families of survivors. It is a slow read as after almost every chapter you feel the overwhelming need to take a break for a day or so to “recover” from and process what you have read. Perhaps the most hurtful thing for these boys (now men) is that nobody recognized that they were being hurt, or that it mattered, or did anything to stop it. ANd while reading the book you feel that pain and desperation so strongly that you start to feel almost guilty for not being able to reach out through the pages and rescue them.
Overall this is a very well written book on a topic which is far too often overlooked
