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Touched : A Memoir of Child Sexual Abuse and Survival - Ragan Fox

Touched

A Memoir of Child Sexual Abuse and Survival

By: Ragan Fox

Paperback | 16 June 2026 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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