This is a very serious and very troubling story. Porn star Satine Phoenix is putting together an autobiography and in it she tells of being molested by her father for more than 10 years. Satine’s mother actually made her drop charges against him when she was 12, because it would “ruin the family.”
I haven’t really said anything before about this because I wanted to protect my family. Well, I did say something, but my mother told me to drop the charges when I was 12 because it would “Ruin our family”. When in reality it would have just ruined her gold digging dreams. I wanted so bad to not ruin our family. I wanted my parents to love me with every fiber of my being. I wanted to be a good girl. But isn’t that the parents job, to protect the family? When my mother was first suspicious about us (when I was eight) wasn’t it her job to protect me from him? Instead she yelled at me and it became my fault then the incident suddenly was just ignored.
Every incident was “ignored”, every time, for almost 10 years. And just when I thought it was over, that I finally got away, I get a phone call from my little sister. He had gotten to her too. I couldn’t protect her once I was in college. The court system set him free and she ended up in foster homes. Was she a bad kid? Absolutely not. Did she have issues? YES! No one believed her when she told people. To this day our entire family lives in denial calling her a Liar. How on earth could anyone treat another human being like that? They wonder why people like us turn to drugs or prostitution. Our mouths can’t scream but our souls cry out for help through our actions. If you disrespect our bodies, how can we learn to respect our own bodies?
That is only a small part of Satine’s full post. I encourage everyone to click over and read the entire thing. As painful as this story is to tell I think Satine deserves a lot of credit for telling it. Things like this must not be swept under the rug.
Again, please click over and read the entire piece.
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