Raped at 8, Junot Diaz's revealing essay shines light on male sexual assault
By age 11, novelist Junot Diaz was struggling with depression and uncontrollable rage. At 14, he put a gun to his head.
The nights were the worst. He dreamed of horrific rapes: attacks by his siblings, his father, his teachers, his peers, complete strangers. Often, he'd wake up with blood in his mouth; he'd bitten down hard on his tongue while he slept.
In a widely shared essay published in The New Yorker recently, the
