How I Survived Homeschooling in Bill Gothard’s Cult: Part Three

He leaned toward me, his knee making contact with mine (I tried to scoot back from him), earnestly looking into my eyes, and told me that I misunderstood my position

Hurts Me More Than You: Deborah and Janet’s Stories

“The worst part of getting spanked was never the humiliation or the pain or the endless guilt and self-loathing or even the forced hugs and prayers.”

Soy Makes Kids Gay and Babies Masturbate!

Where did all these myths about the evils of soy come from? WorldNetDaily and Debi Pearl, of course.

A Quick and Dirty Sex Ed Guide for Quiverfull Daughters: By Heather Doney

“Today I decided to write bluntly about how to enjoy sex as a woman, particularly as a woman raised in the Quiverfull/Christian patriarchy homeschooling movement.”

The Secrets of the Birds and Bees: Iris Rosenthal’s Story

“I would fake a period every month so that I wouldn’t get in trouble. I didn’t get my first real period until I was 13. Even then I wasn’t any more ready for it than I was when I was ten.”

Like Acid on Skin: Myra’s Story

“Perhaps this is just for me, for me to finally put into words the terrible pain in my heart, which seems to slowly eat away at life like acid on skin. Sexual education. I received none as a child, absolutely none.”

Finding A Reason To Wake Up: Warbler

“When you find a reason to get up every morning, you will not want pain any more. I remember taking a shower and screaming into the gushing water, because that was the only place they couldn’t hear me. It eats you up inside and I know you want to be free.”

Sex Miseducation

“It has taken me years to iron all this out and to come to a healthy view of sex. I wish that instead of focusing on keeping me ignorant of it, my parents had informed me about sex and focused on giving me a healthy view of sexuality. But then, their beliefs about sex would not allow them to do that.”