For a man or child to be sodomized is a major violation. The scarring of one's emotional life after this awful trauma is sufficient enough to even cause frigidity in some men. Men are becoming liberated again. The horrors of an abusive childhood will always haunt the survivor but, in time, memories do fade. After the memories cease to cause an imbalance in the survivor's emotional life come the good times.
Counseling is a worthwhile process and it takes a great deal of courage to heal.
I may have spent a great deal of time in psychiatric institutions but as an abuse survivor I can make it in the colourful world. I still value childhood. Maybe that's why I'm a writer of children's stories.