Dr. John A. King argues that men's silence about sexual abuse and trauma damages their families and teams. He describes how societal pressure keeps men from disclosing pain, then shares a story of a podcast host who finally revealed childhood sexual abuse. Breaking that silence, he says, is essential to stop the harm from spreading to spouses and children.
If you're sitting around a dinner table, you can talk about the horrendous thing that is sexual abuse and trafficking of women, but you can't talk about it as a man. No one wants to hear your stuff. They don't want to talk about it. We're supposed to hold our stuff together. And there's a whole bunch of men out there, millions and millions of men that have no voice and no place. And the problem is that is as they bottle that up, they're hurting their wives and their kids. And so we've got to be able to have this conversation and not feel like you're cashing in your man card. Yeah. Yeah, not feel like you're losing your gonads because you're— dude, I had the— I was talking to a guy the other day, it was a big podcast guy, and we got off the end of it, he said, bro, I was sexually abused as a kid. I've never told anyone.
