Katie Simon: Sex After Sexual Assault, Gebunden

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A modern approach for survivors of sexual assault to navigate trauma, reclaim pleasure, and cultivate a positive relationship with sex – anchored in true stories from survivors of diverse backgrounds and research-informed guidance.

The figures are shocking - 40% of American women and nearly a quarter of American men have been sexually assaulted.

While #MeToo stories and the survivors who shared them have helped combat sexual harassment in the workplace, improved police interventions, and resulted in high-profile convictions, the public has only just begun to reckon with the impact sexual assault has on survivors. The ongoing silence points to the still-taboo intersection of two subjects: sexual assault and sexuality.

Sex After Sexual Assault explores this crossroads through the lens of survivors’ own stories. Tens of millions of people across the United States experience sexual assault, and 94% of survivors experience symptoms of traumatic stress.  These symptoms, such as decreased trust, anxiety, powerlessness, and depression, may affect our sex lives.

This crucial book tackles the obstacles a survivor frequently faces while rebuilding a sex life after sexual trauma: dissociation, panic attacks, physical pain, flashbacks, and more. Each chapter includes a varied selection of survivors’ stories in order to normalize and uplift a diversity of healing experiences. Each chapter also ties in a topic of broad interest, such as embodied consent, media perceptions of sexual assault survivors, sexual regret, and how to have vulnerable conversations with a partner. These stories illuminate how survivors have navigated their struggles into positive practices and outlooks and reimagined what sex and intimacy can look like in the wake of trauma.

For survivors it is a guidebook, a road map, true stories to lean on in a lonely void. Consider it a companion survivors can turn to for support, knowledge, encouragement, resources, and fellow survivors’ expert insight. This book comforts survivors by normalizing a range of post-assault sexual experiences while driving home the reality that many people having sex today are survivors of sexual assault.

These are survivors’ stories, but the broader picture they paint is for anybody seeking more intentional, connected, and pleasurable sex with the awareness that rape culture impacts sex for everyone.

Sex After Sexual Assault also provides clarity for current partners of sexual assault survivors who are impacted by sexual assault secondhand. It will give them the tools to help us through whatever obstacles our trauma histories present.