ABSTRACT
The woman whose experiences of child sexual abuse and its effects is the subject of this chapter was selected from a sample of 132 women who, in response to a television documentary on pornography in 1992 in the UK, contacted a helpline for people who felt they had been harmed by pornography, a number of whom agreed to participate in a pilot study researching their experience of pornography-related harm. ‘Alice Edwards’ (a pseudonym) was aged fifty-three at the time of the first interview in December 1994. Subsequent interviews were conducted in July 1995, August 1996 and April 1997. Each additional interview has produced new disclosures and also new developments in the story of her experience, in the form of events which have taken place during the period of lapsed time between interviews as well as elaborations at a level of detail on the accounts obtained on earlier occasions.
