People deal with stress in different ways. For journalist Mac McClelland, it gripped her body and her mind in such a severe way that she had to simulate a violent rape to get over it. Hit the jump to read the rest of the story.
The Mother Jones civil rights reporter, was on a job in Haiti in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake when she met a woman she called Sybille – who had been raped at gunpoint and brutally mutilated by a gang of men… this incident was more than she could take… The 31-year-old went to see a therapist in her home of San Francisco and despite getting treatment for post traumatic stress disorder, she told her therapist that all she wanted to do was have incredibly violent sex. Her therapist suggested it was a good idea and told her to find someone who she trusted enough to do it with. Ms McClelland believes that it was this staged violent rape with a close friend that cured her. She even wrote an article about for the online magazine Good. In it she explains how her sexual partner mercilessly pinned her, beat her about the head and brutally violated her. She wrote about the rape: ‘I did not enjoy it in the way a person getting screwed normally would.â€
