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Michigan author writes memoir about
overcoming sexual addiction, and talks about
reconnecting with her Jewishness as a result.
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I
r took her a long time, but Sue
William Silverman, author of
Love Sick: One Woman's Journey
through Sexual Addiction (WW.
Norton & Company; $24.95), is on
her "Jewish journey home."
Growing up, Silverman, a victim of
incest and child molestation, confused
sexual abuse with her Judaism and turned
away from her religion. But now, she says,
she is on the road back to her roots.
"In the 1950s and 1960s, there were
some things that weren't openly dis-
cussed in the Jewish community," says
Silverman, 55, who was sexually
abused by her father from age 4 until
she went away to college. "I felt I had
nowhere to turn. The experience
caused me to lose my spirituality.
"I felt [at the time] that if I were
Christian, this would not have hap-
pened to me," says Silverman, the child
of cultural Jews who were strong
Zionists. "Of course, that's not true, but
I spent my adolescence wanting to be a
little Christian girl. At one point in my
life, I actually had a rosary. I went to
temple, but nobody in the Jewish com-
munity would talk about incest, child
abuse or domestic violence."
Now, Silverman is reclaiming her
Jewishness. "As a result of this book
and my first one, Because I Remember
Terror, Father, I Remember You, I have
reconnected with the Jewish commu-
nity," says the author.
Silverman was afraid of being ostra-
cized by Jewish groups after the release
of her first book, due of its content
describing her childhood. Instead, she
was welcomed. Consequently, she
began speaking publicly on domestic
violence to such groups as the
National Council of Jewish Women-
Greater Detroit Section.
"[These experiences] have been a
very empowering revelation," she says.
Due to the abuse suffered at the
hands of her father, Silverman lost
more than her sense of spirituality. She
developed an eating disorder and a
sexual addiction as well.
"My father gave me the message that
love was sex and sex was love,
because when he molested me he
would tell me he loved me," she
recalls. (Her father was a high
government official in the
Truman administration and later
a bank president.)
Sue William Silverman:
"Nobody in the Jewish
community would talk
about incest, child abuse
or domestic violence."