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Mother-Son Incest: The Unthinkable Broken Taboo Persists; An Updated and Revised Overview of Findings

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I am a psychotherapist and I cannot tell you how many times my male clients who have been sexually abused by their mothers were told this. One man was told this when he confided in his rabbi!

We are a society which does not allow for anyone to talk about about mothers. We see men as perpetrators and women as victims when it comes to sexual issues in general.

There are plenty of mothers who are sexually abusing their sons and daughters. There are at least five books on mothers who have sexually abused their daughters.

There is only one on mothers who sexually abuse their sons--and this is it. A wonderful and brave job to this author.

Thank you for writing this book.

Joe Kort, LMSW

I was hoping to understand more of what the specific ramifications are to one's life as a result of mother-son incest. This book did a great job of allowing the victim's to have a voice and tell their stories but it fell short when it came to delving into the specific fall out from this type of abuse.

I was hoping to understand specifically how the abuse had impacted their lives and relationships as they matured into adult males. There's virtually nothing in the book that discusses this and that was a huge disappointment to me. There was only brief, high level mention of the difficulties these men suffered in their adult lives.

I would like to see a book that delves into the specific types of dysfunction, coping and acting out that can be expected from someone who had suffered this kind of abuse. The point of that is to help people recognize those behaviors and hopefully address the abuse and get the victim's appropriate help.