Unfortunately, several tales feel muddied by an overcrowded series of unhappy or tragic events -- such as those in "Hooked," which somewhat numbingly recounts a sexual molestation, physical abuse and suicide.
Acid attacks, cat-calls, eve-teasing, stalking behaviour, molestation, physical and sexual assaults of various kinds--all have those basic premises of "she's so beautiful", or "she has a nice ass", or "she's curvy in the right places," or "she drives me crazy the way she looks," etc.
In my clinical experience as a psychiatrist and in my personal life as well, nearly every woman who has spoken openly with me has told me about experiences of sexual molestation and physical abuse or threats at the hands of males.
"Molesting" is usually preferable to "molestation," but in any case "molestating" is not a word.
In accordance with the sex offender literature (Smallbone and Milne, 2000), offenders convicted of child molestation used more verbal aggression than excessive physical force when angered, which could have negatively affected the number of violent sex crimes in this sample.
"Separate institutions, researchers and advocacy groups lobby and often compete on behalf of victims of child molestation, rape, exposure to domestic violence, corporal punishment, physical abuse and bullying," they write.
We see the physical, emotional, and mental scars of tragedy, disaster, drug abuse, neglect, molestation, abandonment, and physical abuse every day for years and years.
The second included only violent crimes (crimes against a person, e.g. physical violence and treats of physical violence such as assault, rape, robbery, molestation, and unlawful intrusion) during the same period.
Jackson was acquitted of all 14 criminal counts related to the alleged molestation of a young man in 2005 and, like this case, there was no physical evidence, just Jackson's word against his accuser's.
