Kiss Daddy Goodnight

"I am a woman writer, doing a first person documentary book on incest. I would like to hear from others who had an actual or near actual incest experience..." Hundreds of letters poured in from virtually every class, every family structure. "Dear Louise, I was three when my father first molested me..." "Dear Louise, I can't remember the exact age when things started to happen, but it was somewhere around four or five..." "I remember him taking his pants down and saying, Come over here, and sitting the bed, And I remember a feeling of total fear..." "He told me 'mommy likes it when I do this" I just lay there. I didn't have any idea about what it was that he was doing..." " I was very hurt, I mean it hurt physically, And I pretty much pretended I was asleep the whole time..." What perpetuates these all tol frequent incidents, and the myths surrounding incest, is our taboo against discussing it. It can only continue if we continue to be silent