Satanic ritual abuse wank
I dithered about whether to put this in unfunnybusiness or here, but in the end Satanic Ritual Abuse is not real, and what the person who said it was said was so funny it belonged here.

People who blatantly deny the existence of ritual abuse after being offered solid resources to the contrary demonstrate that they don’t need evidence about its existence. Instead, when they continue to deny its existence in a seemingly obsessive manner, they are more likely trolling for new victims in hopes that responding survivors will – while more emotional – slip-up and provide vulnerable, personal information.

There you go. If you deny the existance of ritual abuse, it's because you're looking for new victims to ritually abuse.

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	msmanna 2009-12-15 12:33 pm UTC (link)
	Inducing memories is still abuse Not induced by cults. Induced by bad/incompetent psychologists and law enforcement officers. And, yes. I'd say that is abuse. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	eleutheria 2009-12-15 05:55 pm UTC (link)
	Also by cults-- do-it-yourself exorcisms and "Christian counseling" (including recovered memories) are definitely part of the Dominionist spectrum of abusive shit. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kylenne 2009-12-15 06:27 pm UTC (link)
	And--GASP--that shit is never, EVER called out as ritual abuse, though it clearly fits the definition. As long as you're abusing kids for Jesus (see also: exorcising Teh Gay out of kids) it's a-OK apparently. ...bitter Pagan here, yes. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	eleutheria 2009-12-16 12:44 pm UTC (link)
	Bitter Pagan here who also used to be a Theistic Satanist for almost two decades. During the height of the Satanic Panic. VERY bitter about having to constantly defend against being called a child molester. (And yeah, I know. Nobody ever wants to act against Bible-based cults that are clearly and demonstratively abusive because "how can a church be bad?") (Reply to this)(Parent)

issendai
2009-12-15 10:40 pm UTC (link)

All of this is going to be vague because I can't recall the details of the study, but:

A state did a study of RMT to determine whether to continue paying for it. The patients it followed were 30 to 40 adults, most of whom were functional adults at the start of therapy: not seriously depressed or suicidal, employed, in a stable relationship, in contact with their families, etc. Over the course of therapy, most of the employed patients lost their jobs; most of the people in a stable relationship lost their partners. Almost all of them broke off contact with their families. Many of them became suicidal. A few began cutting. Over the course of several years, RMT destroyed the entire group--for their own good.

Yes, that sounds like abuse.

(The state stopped funding for people in RMT, because holy shit.)

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