The problem with sexual trauma is that is occurs more than we would like to think - but we don’t talk enough about it. Well, I want to talk about it. Hopefully, others can feel less afraid to bring to light this awful and way too common issue in Jamaica. The issue of Sexual Trauma doesn’t start with the mental health of the victim (though it is the main result of the trauma) but the initial sexual assault. That’s something we really don’t talk about enough...we can never talk about enough. Sexual assault is not always about sex (crazy, I know), but it can a lot of the times be about the power one person is attempting to enforce on another. The action isn’t traumatizing as how it makes you feel. Lack of power over your own body, the feeling of fault on your part, the overwhelming hate that tears at you days, months, years after; that is the pain that can never heal. It’s invisible and nonexistent to those uninvolved.
What’s uncomfortable is that adults are not
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At least tourists can go home after their visit… The article talks about the daily life of the average Jamaican woman or adolescent and how Jamaican men seem to feel entitled to us. It also mentions how those men go on to make the female tourists feel uncomfortable with the same actions they have become so used to practicing. Unfortunately, I have too much experience in the actions and words of some of these men. What was more, well, uncomfortable was the information available on the amounts of crimes against women occur in Jamaica. But we have also been shown that there is hope yet. There is, however, only so much social media and conversation can do. At some point we need action. This is an epidemic that needs to be wiped out; it has become so normal that the first thing a victim will do is stay silent, or blame themself. It is an all to common response to assault that accelerates the