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Touched: A Memoir of Child Sexual Abuse and Survival chronicles one man's experience with sexual abuse and his lifelong journey toward healing and self-understanding. Blending memoir and critical theory, Fox invites readers to rethink how we understand harm, memory, childhood, and queerness. This is not simply an account of sexual violation —it's a story about what it means to hold onto your truth when others try to rewrite or silence it.
Drawing from personal history and childhood artifacts, this book traces the author's life from early childhood through early adulthood, mapping the long psychological, interpersonal, and cultural reverberations of child sexual abuse. The memoir situates lived experience within broader discussions of queerness and sexual harm, illuminating how silence, shame, and social stigma shape male survivors' identities. Structured in four parts and interspersed with poetic interludes and theoretical appendices, Touched examines memory's ethics, child sexual abuse's "feel-good paradox," and the process of translating personal violation into intellectual and creative agency. Fox's tale demonstrates how confronting one's own history can transform injury into intervention and fearlessly reclaims narrative power from systems that have long misrepresented or erased the sexual abuse of boys and young men.
Offering insight, validation and healing for those coming to terms with abuse's aftermath, Touched will resonate with adult readers—especially survivors of child sexual abuse. The book also serves LGBTQ individuals, people working in mental health, and anyone who values honest, transformative memoir.
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
SECTION ONE. Touched: transitive verb, to put hands upon, especially to commit violence
CHAPTER ONE. Bateswood
CHAPTER TWO. Vanderpool
CHAPTER THREE. Fleetwood
INTERLUDE. More Tales from Daria Court
SECTION TWO. Touched: adjective, slightly unbalanced mentally
CHAPTER FOUR. Hearthstone
CHAPTER FIVE. Labay
CHAPTER SIX. West Oaks at Cypress Creek
INTERLUDE. Wrong Box, Wrong Body, Wrong Era
INTERLUDE. Fairytales, Part 1: Beware the Witch's Sugar House
CHAPTER SEVEN. Fairy Tales, Part 2: The Vampire Chronicles
SECTION THREE. Touched: transitive verb, move to sympathetic feeling, to leave a mark or impression on
CHAPTER EIGHT. High Drama on the Northwest Freeway
CHAPTER NINE. Jim's House in Montrose
CHAPTER TEN. Railyard
INTERLUDE. Skid Marks
INTERLUDE. Castilian Dormitory
CHAPTER ELEVEN. Nob Hill
SECTION FOUR. Touch: noun, a distinctive method of dealing with something
INTERLUDE. Phoenix Rising
CHAPTER TWELVE. Ain't Nobody's Biz
INTERLUDE: Grindr
EPILOGUE
APPENDIX A. Reflecting on Method
APPENDIX B. Writing from a Phenomenological Perspective
APPENDIX C. Auditing CSA Memories
APPENDIX D. Theorizing CSA's Feel-Good Paradox
APPENDIX E. Abuse's Psychic Inscription
