“Diann” – testimony before Attorney General’s Commission on pornography, 1985

Diann testified her story on behalf of the General Attorney’s Commission in Washington D.C. on Pornography.  She shared her store of being a victim of sexual abuse by her husband.  Her husband is addicted to pornography.  He coerced his wife to act out the fantasies in pornography.  The wife didn’t identify what was sexual abuse until a counselor for abused woman pointed out when a person attempts to have sex or do sexual acts against his/her wishes with physical attacking of sexual parts of the body and treating him/her as a sex object is sexual abuse.

Read full personal account here 

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