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Child Sexual Abuse, What a Terrible Impact It Has


I don't think there is anything more disturbing and awful in human's life than child sexual abuse. An adult woman, even if raped in the most severe manner, can recover in a short period. But a child, even if abused in a very gentle manner and by a very close member of his/her family, is unlikely to be able to get ride of its effects. The effects are direct or indirect. As a victim of abuse, I believe indirect effects are more important, including lack of self-confidence, problems in learning and receptiveness of being dominated.
Despite it has very strong effects, and it is widespread in the society, no one cares about child abuse. I loved this movie, because it is unique and talks about something very important.

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Well, that preceeding set of comments was certainly mature. You MORONS! This is an incredible movie that deals with a terrible social ill that has life-long consequences for not only the first victim - the child, but also for her (or his) spouse, children, and sometimes beyond.

Yet despite the topic this ends up being an uplifting film. And yes, a pretty good primer for how to have sex too. If you bozos ever get the extremely rare and unlikely opportunity to have sex with an actual woman instead of your blow up dolls, you could do a lot worse than to follow this film's recipe.

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glad the junk comments got deleted.
back to the real subject, when I listed this great film on spaldinggray.com (Spalding is the 'straight' therapist), I added a comment that sexual abuse survivors probably want to have their support network available for post viewing. However, an important, very indie made in Vancouver.
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I agree with you, it makes this a very remarkable film.
An unexpected surprise, since I started seeing BLISS because of Terence Stamp.



"I don't discriminate between entertainment
and arthouse. A film is a goddam film."

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