Remembering the weird book trend circa ~ 2005 where every bookshop had a shelf dedicated to child abuse memoirs. What was going on there?
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A book called "A Child Called It" was very popular and then, soon after, a whole slew of memoirs were released with titles like "Moving Forward" and "Daddy, No!" The British public couldn't get enough of them
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I always had the upsetting suspicion that many people took pleasure in reading about these private atrocities. "Misery Porn" is the term, I believe
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There is some question as to the veracity of 'A Child Called It'
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That lends an even more sinister element to it. I'm sure there are at least a couple of those books which are fabricated
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