Dorothy Allison

Absolutely. It's like the myth of rape, you know. Obviously, if you orgasm during rape, then it must not have been rape. So if a child begins to feel erotic excitement while being manipulated by an adult, does that give the adult permission to do it? It's a horrible thing to even imagine.

And you don't... Part of the reason to keep it a secret and to be quiet about that feeling is that you might give someone... any small measure of encouragement to feel they have a right to do this. They have no right ever to sexually touch a child. It's just not possible to do. There's no justification for it.

And you don't... Part of the reason to keep it a secret and to be quiet about that feeling is that you might give someone... any small measure of encouragement to feel they have a right to do this. They have no right ever to sexually touch a child. It's just not possible to do. There's no justification for it.

And you don't... Part of the reason to keep it a secret and to be quiet about that feeling is that you might give someone... any small measure of encouragement to feel they have a right to do this. They have no right ever to sexually touch a child. It's just not possible to do. There's no justification for it.

And the fact that the child might, in fact, manufacture some erotic excitement is not a justification for it. But if we pretend that it doesn't happen, then that guilt, that self-horror stays.

And the fact that the child might, in fact, manufacture some erotic excitement is not a justification for it. But if we pretend that it doesn't happen, then that guilt, that self-horror stays.

And the fact that the child might, in fact, manufacture some erotic excitement is not a justification for it. But if we pretend that it doesn't happen, then that guilt, that self-horror stays.

That I find upsetting. We don't have... Especially if you're a child. I mean, my incest started when I was five years old. I wasn't capable of making any decision about what I wanted to do. I didn't have the capacity to do that. If... When I began to feel all these funny feelings that I could not explain to myself, all I experienced was horror.

That I find upsetting. We don't have... Especially if you're a child. I mean, my incest started when I was five years old. I wasn't capable of making any decision about what I wanted to do. I didn't have the capacity to do that. If... When I began to feel all these funny feelings that I could not explain to myself, all I experienced was horror.

That I find upsetting. We don't have... Especially if you're a child. I mean, my incest started when I was five years old. I wasn't capable of making any decision about what I wanted to do. I didn't have the capacity to do that. If... When I began to feel all these funny feelings that I could not explain to myself, all I experienced was horror.

I began to think that I was the terrible person I was being told I was. And it's taken me most of my life to make the decision that that's not the case. Would you tell us the story your relatives told you about how you were born? I was born in a car accident. My mother was on the way to the airport with a bunch of my uncles and aunts, and they hit another car.

I began to think that I was the terrible person I was being told I was. And it's taken me most of my life to make the decision that that's not the case. Would you tell us the story your relatives told you about how you were born? I was born in a car accident. My mother was on the way to the airport with a bunch of my uncles and aunts, and they hit another car.

I began to think that I was the terrible person I was being told I was. And it's taken me most of my life to make the decision that that's not the case. Would you tell us the story your relatives told you about how you were born? I was born in a car accident. My mother was on the way to the airport with a bunch of my uncles and aunts, and they hit another car.

And she was in the back seat asleep, so she was thrown over the front seat, through the windshield, over the other car. She wasn't hurt too bad, except that she had a concussion and was unconscious for three days. And, of course, I was born while she was unconscious.

And she was in the back seat asleep, so she was thrown over the front seat, through the windshield, over the other car. She wasn't hurt too bad, except that she had a concussion and was unconscious for three days. And, of course, I was born while she was unconscious.

And she was in the back seat asleep, so she was thrown over the front seat, through the windshield, over the other car. She wasn't hurt too bad, except that she had a concussion and was unconscious for three days. And, of course, I was born while she was unconscious.

which meant that my grandmother and my aunts were at the hospital, and they got into an argument while talking to the clerk and didn't manage to manufacture the manufactured marriage my mother had been going to get through. So I became a certified bastard. How old was she when she gave birth to you? Fifteen. One month past her 15th birthday. She was a child. She did eventually marry, right?

which meant that my grandmother and my aunts were at the hospital, and they got into an argument while talking to the clerk and didn't manage to manufacture the manufactured marriage my mother had been going to get through. So I became a certified bastard. How old was she when she gave birth to you? Fifteen. One month past her 15th birthday. She was a child. She did eventually marry, right?

which meant that my grandmother and my aunts were at the hospital, and they got into an argument while talking to the clerk and didn't manage to manufacture the manufactured marriage my mother had been going to get through. So I became a certified bastard. How old was she when she gave birth to you? Fifteen. One month past her 15th birthday. She was a child. She did eventually marry, right?

My mother married three times. Well, the first marriage was annulled. But she married my stepfather when I was five and lived with him until she died.