Library: Not Suitable for Children

WARNING: DISTURBING TOPIC!

RantWoman is collecting resources in connection with ministries at her Meeting and The Safest Sex Offender on the Planet. This item involves web content about a disturbing topic, a crime more serious than the one The Safest Sex Offender was convicted of, as well as several different moral zigs and zags. RantWoman is clear that this material is appropriate for her blog. RantWoman is clear that it is not appropriate for children and that many adults may want to skip it as well.

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The following link is a This American Life segment including a segment about journalist David Holthouse's experiences of child rape and of its impact on his life.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/425/slow-to-react

RantWoman promises that, in the spirit of collecting resources RantWoman herself can interact with, she will get to some links related to the author's own experience of child rape. The program pointedly proclaimed the segment "not suitable for children." RantWoman imagines not every adult will want to go there either. Before including the media links though, RantWoman feels called to some navel-gazing about her Meeting.

One of the things that happened at RantWoman's Meeting as a result of The Safest Sex Offender on the Planet approaching us about worship among us was that a notebook full of resources related to sexual assault and abuse was created for our Meeting's library. RantWoman supposes that knowing the notebook exists and how to find it might be considered part of bare minimum tools for, say, new members of Worship and Ministry who might be called to help connect someone to resources.

Based on some conversations RantWoman has had in connection with current Meeting discussions, RantWoman notes that someone who really really needs the resources might feel a teeny bit hesitant about bouncing into the library and asking for help to find the notebook. Maybe RantWoman will just file that point for more conversation.

RantWoman thinks she has maybe seen the notebook. RantWoman may even have opened it and peered briefly at something. By the time the notebook was getting assembled, though, RantWoman's eyes were already doing various cloudy and foggy things. RantWoman was interacting only minimally with print. RantWoman was confident of her capacity to look things up on the internet and opted not to get in the faces of those assembling the notebook.

RantWoman further notes that The Safest Sex Offender.... appeared well into the electronic age. RantWoman, e-junkie that she is, completely sees the point of having things people can read without being plugged into the vast internet infoswamp. However, those assembling the notebook full of resources were definitely not oriented toward the internet. But it's a new day and RantWoman needs her electronic filing cabinet anyway.


The original article
http://www.westword.com/2004-05-13/news/stalking-the-bogeyman/


The article about Holthouse's arrest for stalking
http://www.westword.com/2004-07-01/news/stalking-the-bogeyman/


A statement from the District Attorney of Adams and Broomfield counties in CO not charging Mr. Holthouse with stalking because of lack of cooperation.
http://www.westword.com/2004-07-01/news/press-release/

various items including several weeks of letters to the editor.

http://www.westword.com/search/index?keywords=Holthouse