Please Stand With Me Against Sexual Abuse
for Sexual Health, Healing, Safety and Honoring for All

V-Day is a global movement to end violence against women and girls. It raises funds and aware-ness through benefit produc-tions of Playwright and Founder Eve Ensler’s award winning play The Vagina Monologues and other artistic works.

V-Day generates broader atten-tion for the fight to stop vio-lence against women and girls, including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM) and sexual slavery.

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Eve Ensler
 

RAINN is the nation's largest anti-sexual assault organization, and one of America's 100 best charities - Worth Magazine

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Sexual Abuse Statistics

Provided by RAINN

Women - 1 out of every 6 American women have been the victims of an attempted or com­pleted rape in their lifetime (14.8% completed rape; 2.8% attempted rape).

While about 80% of all victims are white, minorities are some­what more likely to be attacked.

Lifetime rate of rape or attempted rape for women by race -

All women: 17.6%
White women: 17.7%
Black women: 18.8%
Asian Pacific Islander women: 6.8%
American Indian/Alaskan women: 34.1%
Mixed race women: 24.4%

Men - About 3% of American men (1 in 33) — have experi­enced an attempted or comple­ted rape in their lifetime.

2.78 million men in the U.S. have been victims of sexual assault or rape.

(These stats are likely to be low as men are very often silent victims.)

Victims of sexual assault are:

3 times more likely to suffer from depression.

6 times more likely to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.

13 times more likely to abuse alcohol.

26 times more likely to abuse drugs.

4 times more likely to con­tem­plate suicide.

Women with passive personali­ties are most likely to be raped - and they tend to wear conceal­ing clothes.

Source:  Psychology Today, Jan/Feb 2009
 

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by Pam Babbitt, Sex Coach

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These two Maasai girls are recent
victims of FGM.  They will wear the
beads and capes until they heal.
 

Men Stopping Violence is a social change or­ganization dedicated to ending men's violence against women.

Men Stopping Violence works locally, national­ly, and internationally to dismantle belief sys­tems, social structures, and institutional prac­tices that oppress women and children and dehumanize men themselves.

They look to the violence against women's movement to keep the reality of the problem and the vision of the solution before them.

They believe that all forms of oppression are interconnected. Social justice work in the areas of race, class, gender, age, and sexual orientation are all critical to ending violence against women.

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Sexual abuse is not limited to women.  Statis­tics show that 1 in 33 American men have experienced an attempted or completed rape in their lifetime.  This data is likely to be low, however, as men are more apt to be silent victims.

MaleSurvivor is committed to preventing, heal­ing, and eliminating all forms of sexual victim­ization of boys and men through support, treatment, research, education, advocacy, and activism.

For a greater understanding of male sexual abuse, MaleSurvivor offers these educational myths and truths.

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Zero Tolerance for
Sexual Shame and Degradation

 Pam Babbitt, Sex Coach

As Printed in Nov/Dec 2004 issue of the
Healing Path magazine
 

Stories of sexual abuse, shame and degrada­tion suffered by Iraqi prisoners are beyond disturbing. My heart is very heavy.

While wishing I could offer healing on a per­sonal level, I’ve been sending prayers instead. Still feeling frustrated and wanting to do more, I realized I can - we all can.

My commitment to allowing no place for sexual shaming or degradation is stronger than ever. As a Sex and Intimacy Coach, I see that sex­ual shame is often unrecognized, minimized or excused.  Very often, it is just the norm.

My commitment is -
No matter the degree, the form, the excuse or the intent, wherever it appears, sexual sham­ing or degradation will not be tolerated.

Today I will toss that pebble of commitment into my pond and know that it will have far reaching effects.

And, I am remembering a Tantric meditation -
 

 As you receive pleasure,
so the Universe receives
pleasure through you.

May you enjoy much pleasure and know that your pleasure is also a pebble in the pond.