Elizabeth Smart

So that was extremely painful.

Like I remember just bleeding afterwards and,

It was awful.

I remember just thinking, if this is what sex is, I never want to have sex ever again.

I never want to have this happen to me ever again.

It just felt emotionally so destructive that I could not protect myself.

That my whole life, I'd been raised in a very sheltered, protected environment, which I'm very grateful to my parents for.

They did the best that they could.

And no one thinks that you will ever be in

this situation.

And certainly not me, certainly not my family.

We lived in a very nice neighborhood.

We lived in a beautiful home.

We knew our neighbors.

There were lots of kids in my neighborhood.

We just didn't imagine anything like this could happen.

So nobody was prepared for it.

Nobody talked about it.

But then also, I mean, I did grow up in a very conservative, very Christian community.

And there had always been a lot of emphasis put on remaining pure, remaining chaste, remaining a virgin until you get married.