Empty Chairs is a recently released narrative nonfiction by Stacey Danson that you can purchase here. User discretion is advised as it is a chilling tale of the author’s prostitution by her mother from infancy, and her struggle to escape and survive the horrific effects of childhood sexual abuse. The [...]
NYU has acquired the archives of so-called “artist” Larry Rivers who filmed his daughters naked while they were growing up, including the time when they developed breasts. When they complained he told them that they were bad daughters and uptight. This douchebag was apparently big on the beat artist and NYC circuit. Her mother [...]
I have been following the death of Michael Jackson, and not only it [possibly] illustrates the death of another celebrity from prescription medications, but it also shows the importance of childhood abuse and neglect, and how the jerks who perpetuate it get off scott free.
A paper just out in Nature Neuroscience on the effects of childhood abuse on the brain has been predictably shilled by the NY Times as being the first evidence that childhood abuse can have an effect on your brain. Now before you all get all hot and bothered consider the fact that childhood abuse [...]
