Poutoa’s Intro of Who I am / Māori Pepeha
Introducing Poutoa of Better Blokes South Aucklandpoutoa.papalii@betterblokes.org.nz0800 448 484
Some of What We Do Here: Simon of Better Blokes
Introducing Simon of Better Blokes West Auckland, explaining a bit about what we dosimon.johnson@betterblokes.org.nz0800 448 484
Recovering From Male Sexual Abuse: One Survivor’s Story | Jamie Forbes | TEDxHartlandHill
In this talk, Jamie takes on the formidable task of speaking the shame that comes with being a victim of this crime coupled with the clarify of how to bring forth personal healing and how to create greater protection within our school systems.
Male Victims of Sexual Assault: A Review of the Literature
According to current estimates, over 27% of men and over 32% of women had been sexually victimized at some time in their lives … Men are generally seen to be as less affected by sexual victimization. Yet, there is evidence to support the idea that sexual victimization affects male victims mentally just as much as…
GUEST COLUMN: The hero’s journey for male rape survivors
A journey to connect, talk, meet, receive support and inspire other male survivors. I know the cold, inky depths of silence. I shut down and isolated from the world after it happened to me. https://www.idsnews.com/article/2023/04/guest-column-hero-journey-male-rape-survivors-iu-sexual-assault-awareness-month
Male survivors’ experience of sexual assault and support: A scoping review
Research on female sexual assault dominates research on adult sexual violence (Turchik & Edwards, 2012). This is understandable given most survivors of sexual assault are women. In contrast, research on male survivors of sexual assault (hereafter ‘male rape’) has been considerably less common (Javaid, 2018; Turchik & Edwards, 2012). This has been changing in recent…
One-third of childhood sexual abuse is perpetrated by another child. Shannon Molloy tells his story – and urges us not to look away
Whatever your story, the important thing is to speak up and share. horror, secrecy and shame, but it’s also tempered with hope, insight and healing. https://theconversation.com/one-third-of-childhood-sexual-abuse-is-perpetrated-by-another-child-shannon-molloy-tells-his-story-and-urges-us-not-to-look-away-199203
New report on access to services for male survivors of sexual violence
MSD commissioned research into the help seeking experience of male survivors of sexual violence and abuse. https://nzfvc.org.nz/node/4874
People who experience childhood sexual abuse tell us it affects their entire life – and research backs them up
Research done right here in Aotearoa Based on information drawn from the long-running Dunedin Study, which has followed the lives of around 1,000 people since they were born in the early 1970s, our research confirms the long-term consequences of childhood sexual abuse and the lifelong challenges survivors might face. https://theconversation.com/people-who-experience-childhood-sexual-abuse-tell-us-it-affects-their-entire-life-and-research-backs-them-up-195452
Dr Bessel van der Kolk: how to heal trauma
There is hope and healing can be done One way to change the “orientation” of our brains away from trauma is to have new experiences that directly contradict the negative experiences it previously seemed to cling to https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018880402/dr-bessel-van-der-kolk-how-to-heal-trauma