The Stigma of Men Speaking Out On Their CSA: “Children of God” Cult Survivor Opens Up

CW: CSA, SA, mentions of suicide…. Philip Seibel was born into the Children of God sex cult and survived many instances of CSA at the hands of his own parents. This was all part of the cult’s mentality “God is love and love is sex”. Our first episode together details his childhood and escape attempts. When he was able to get out successfully, he had no idea about the outside world. At the age of fifteen he ran away from his abusive parents and began to wander this world as a homeless street musician, learning how to survive.

Now Philip is an outspoken critic of the statutes of limitations for crimes against children. Currently he lives in Switzerland, proud father and author, singer, songwriter, artist, wearable designer and hobby sound technician

His books include The monsters that kiss you good night, The monsters that walk with me and his third book in this series currently in progress "No one speaks about the monsters"

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Website with his singles: https://www.philipseibel.com/singles

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Books: The Monsters that Kiss You Goodnight

The Monsters that Walk With Me

A Broken Poet

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Chapter Marks

00:00:00 Intro

00:04:42 Philip's childhood in COG

00:11:29 How Philip processes what happened to him

00:16:37 How Philip managed as a 15 year old runaway

00:16:55 CW: CSA

00:19:56 Philip recounts his CSA

00:21:32 CW: CSA - The reason Philip remembers is CSA so well

00:29:37 The consequences Philip's dealt with for telling his story

00:31:51 CW: Society desensitized to women's SA and not men's

00:34:56 CW: mentions of suic*de

00:38:43 Philip felt he couldn't open up about CSA he experienced while dating

00:42:37 What it was like writing his first book - Philip comments on the responses people get when disclosing their trauma

00:46:19 Philip's thoughts on whether continuing to speak out will further hinder his success

00:55:51 How Philip is doing now

00:57:11 Linda, Listen

01:02:49 Philip sings and plays Little Black Sheep on his guitar

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