Where are the Consequences?
Over the past couple of months, I have noticed a pervasive heaviness in body and mood within the collective, regarding the release and handling of the sex trafficking, pedophilia, misogyny, and complete exploitative and criminal behaviors, from elites toward a vulnerable population.
Child victims and survivors, abused, tortured, and then paid for by a network of privileged — mostly men — and a few women, for their own gain and pleasure.
As a sex addiction therapist, what has been the hardest for me is looking at this through the lens of my education on the eventual demise of an addict’s spiraling levels of dangerous sexual behaviors. Because what we are taught is that eventually these dopamine chasing behaviors will end in the addict bottoming out, with loss and massive consequences. Consequences that can include the loss of trust, family, reputation, finances, health issues, imprisonment, and death — like all addictions.
What is shocking and curious is how long the consequences and accountability is taking, how protected the very names of the perpetrators are, and how horrendously the victims and survivors are being treated.
In sessions with my clients — both partners of sex addicts and sex addicts in recovery — I witness them question their own experiences and how the criminals in the files are getting away with crimes right in front of our faces.
My heart is with the victims and survivors as they navigate the re-traumatization, threats, and online abuse. As of this writing, I do want to acknowledge that some of our allies across the pond are starting to hold some of the perpetrators accountable for their crimes, and am hopeful but not confident the US will soon follow.
Pamela Kohll
MS, LMHP, LPCC, LMHC, CSAT-S, AASECT Certified Sex Therapist (CST)
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