If you’ve ever heard stories of sexual abuse and wondered why a survivor didn’t report the abuse, or why they appeased the abusers, or why they just tried to escaped but didn’t go to the police, etc. If this has ever been confusing for you, you need to read Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s memoir Nobody’s Girl.
It’s a wildly important book as it details how these things happen and how abusers get away with it. It explains how and why abusers chose those who they will abuse, how they slowly damage their self concept, how they make it clear that they can't go get help, how they set the abused up to not be believed by their community, how they engineer silence, and how abusers give themselves a public image contrary to reality to hide behind. On and on.
If you actually care about understanding these thing, all the answers are in that book.
