A new report, entitled , has reaffirmed what most women and girls already knew: sexual abuse and harassment are incessant, it starts young and it is on the rise.
Commissioned by Plan Australia and Our Watch, the survey collected responses from 600 girls and young women aged 15鈥19 across Australia.
In Trauma and recovery: The aftermath of violence 鈥 from domestic abuse to political terror, psychiatrist and trauma specialist Judith Herman wrote: 鈥淭he ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable.鈥