This article in today's Inky reports that nearly one in four Philadelphians suffered childhood sexual abuse. I am almost hoping something is flawed in the study, because that number seems really really high. When I was in college, I took a rape crisis hotline training class. At the beginning of the semester, everyone indicated that they were taking the class just because they were good people who wanted to help others. But by the end of the course, everyone felt comfortable enough to share that we were all there because something terrible happened to us or someone very close to us. I can remember sitting there, feeling so shocked that so many people could have gone through so much pain and shame when they were so young, just children and teenagers. Some of them had never talked about it before. I guess the only sort of positive part of this disturbing news is that people are feeling more comfortable reporting sexual abuse now. And people can know they're not alone.