On Being Raped Douglas Raymond M.Paperback
A personal and moral inquiry into the crime we do our best to ignore: the rape of adult menWhen Raymond M. Douglas was an eighteen-year-old living in Europe, he was brutally raped by a Catholic…
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A personal and moral inquiry into the crime we do our best to ignore: the rape of adult menWhen Raymond M. Douglas was an eighteen-year-old living in Europe, he was brutally raped by a Catholic priest. He eventually moved to the United States and became a highly regarded historian, writing with great care about the violent expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe after the Second World War, and parsing the complicated moral questions of these actions. But until now, Douglas has been silent about his own experience of trauma.In On Being Raped, Douglas recounts this painful event and his later attempts to seek help to lay bare the physical and psychological trauma of a crime we still don't openly discuss: the rape of adult men by men. With eloquence and passion, he examines the requirements society implicitly places upon men who are victims of rape, examines the