Three of Kody Brown's (the polygamist father) teenagers -- Logan, Aspyn, and Madison decide to visit an organization called Holding out HELP which helps individuals who have experienced abuse, incest, and trauma within polygamist cults.
Cooper's interest in exploring the darkest corners of the human experience — incest, rape, cannibalism — has not dimmed with age.
She did not experience the incest part herself, she said, but has friends who did, and she chose that topic because she wanted to explore the kind of extreme trauma suffered by children that can haunt them the rest of their lives.
All have incest prohibitions.
But rape and incest, experiences that the show chronicles, are huge, life-changing moments.
In interviews, Angot has repeatedly — if obliquely — claimed this experience of incest as her own.
When you do not have a name for the vagina, how can one find the language to speak out about experiences of incest, rape, trafficking or sexual slavery?
Though Angot makes it clear that her experience of incest informs each part of her life, she writes comparatively little about sex itself — even her encounters with her girlfriend are drained of any eroticism.
Given her experience with incest, it's unclear if she understood how wrong that was at the time she did it, though.
The range of sexual violations experienced by the women not only included those that were outright violent (rape, abduction with sex, forced incest), but also those that were coercive in nature (sex in exchange for gifts, defilement and sexual comforting) which took advantage of the women and girls increased vulnerability due to the war and it's associated mass poverty.
