Your Stories #2: 52 y/o female
My parents, mostly father with mother helping, dressed me in adult scanty
clothing and makeup and took pictures of me, beating me up so that I would be
forced to allow it. I was a small child. This went on for many years. I was
also posed in regular clothes as an adolescent in provacative poses. This lead
to boundary problems and shame about my sexuality. My parents were committing
covert incest and were pederasts. They, mostly my father, also projected onto
my potential boyfriends and said that they were not nice people and threatened
to hurt them. I was brokenhearted about one my father chased away for years.
I did not grow up to be a sex worker. Covert incest is more insidious than
overt incest as it is behavioural only (father acts like daughter’s boyfriend,
mother enabling and jealous). Father never allowed me to heal — the Electra
complex. Parents got all aroused during the abuse; it was gross. It still
gives me problems, despite years of therapy, to this day. I was born in 1952.