Child abuse has been around since the beginning of time.

Abuse was still hidden in plain sight 50, 40, 30, 20 years ago, and now.

Weird article. I hate the perpetuation of the idea that child abuse is something that happened '60 years ago.' The things he describes are terrible, but nothing compared to the horrors we've been learning about here. And it's very strange the last line when he recalls putting an arm around a male friend as a child and being shrugged off - 'I realised I had transgressed' he ends with. How does that fit in? It's almost as though he's getting mixed up between people remaining silent about the appalling crime of child abuse, and people being silent about physical affection between males that could be interpreted as homoerotic. Not a good comparison with which to end his article. What made you share it, was there something about it you thought was illuminating?

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Sixty years ago, abuse hid in plain sight. But we still closed our eyes | Ian Jack | Opinion | The Guardian

'He dressed as a man, Mr L, on weekdays, and as a woman, Mrs L, at weekends. '

'Sometimes people of a certain age talk in a certain way – uncomfortably, carefully, hoping that nobody will misjudge their tone. '

'What should we blame – repression, sexism, the customs of the age, lack of curiosity, all of the above?'

'It was a sunny day, but a fierce east wind smashed straight into our faces from the North Sea. '

'Were we a little thick, a little slow to catch on?'

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