My goal, in this nonfiction essay, was to provide a first-hand report on what Russ Douthat described in The New York Times as the 1970s culture of statutory rape, which infused my childhood and adolescence. He should have been arrested. #MeToo By the time my brother John was born, I was sixteen and recently released from a mental hospital, where my mother, fighting off tears, had checked me in. I had run away from home. I had punched out a window, slicing my arm, realizing Da