Don't Tell: The Sexual Abuse of Boys

Don't Tell: The Sexual Abuse of Boys, originally released in French as Ça arrive aussi aux garçons: l'abus sexuel au masculin, is a nonfiction book by Michel Dorais (FR). It was published in 1997 in French by VLB (FR). It was later republished by Typo éditeur. The English translation was published by McGill-Queen's University Press in 2002, and Isabel Denholm Meyer was the translator.

The book has testimonials from thirty sexual abuse victims from Canada.^[1]

Manon Toupin of La Nouvelle Union stated the English version of the book was very successful in Canada and the United States.^[2]

The translator of the English version had a son who was a sexual abuse victim while he was a child; the man committed suicide at age 29.^[3]

References

• Grondin, Anne-Marie. "YOUTH VICTIMS, COMPETENT AGENTS: A SECOND OPINION ON SEXUAL VICTIMIZATION TRAUMA" (Archive). International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies (2011) 3 & 4: 450-472.
• Meyer, Isabel Denholm. "Translator's Preface." In: Dorais, Michel. Don't Tell, Second Edition: The Sexual Abuse of Boys. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, March 5, 2002. ISBN 0773575367, 9780773575363.

Notes

1. Grondin, p. 451.
2. Toupin, Manon. "Ça arrive aussi aux garçons. L’abus sexuel au masculin de Michel Dorais" (Archive). La Nouvelle Union. January 22, 2008. Retrieved on June 12, 2014. "Son livre Ça arrive aussi aux garçons, traduit en anglais sous le titre Don’t Tell : The Sexual Abuse of Boys, connaît, depuis sa sortie, un grand succès au Canada et aux États-Unis."
3. Meyer, p. xi.

Further reading

• Gagné, Frédérick (author). Langlois, Simon (Editor). "Michel Dorais, Ça arrive aussi aux garçons, Montréal, Typo essai, 2008, 311 p" - In: Recherches sociographiques (FR), 2009, Vol.50(3), pp. 672–674 [Peer Reviewed Journal]. ISSN 0034-1282 ; E-ISSN 1705-6225 .

External links

• (French) "COMMUNIQUÉ Ça arrive aussi aux garçons. L’abus sexuel au masculin DE MICHEL DORAIS" (Archive). Typo éditeur. 22 January 2008.