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Made in the USA: Memoir of a Sex Offender
Made in the USA Memoir of a Sex Offender Author:Walter Jenkins Made in the USA is about a man who loved boys, and the price he paid for that. It's also a social history of America--life before computers and the internet, registration for sex offenders, and flamboyant trials awarding millions to the new social predators: litigation attorneys trolling for adult recovering victims from illegal but nonviolent s... more »exual relationships 25 to 40 years ago. Seventy-year-old Walter Jenkins transports us back to a less regulated, more innocent time in America, when he formed intimate relationships with boys, sometimes lasting years. Those experiences sent him to prison, where being a baby raper resulted in genuine assaults (the physically violent kind.) The author takes us to his sex offender treatment programs- what worked, and what didn't. In 1990, Jenkins is released into society, seeking to bond with adults, and receives society's response: revulsion and ostracism. Radicalized by such consistency, Jenkins exposes how today's public is programmed to be mad, scared, and righteous-- who's getting the pay-offs when people's reasoning gets high-jacked by their emotions and--who pays. In our new Age of Victimization, Made in the USA is a radical book, written from a perspective you never hear from: the former perpetrator.« less