It’s a shame Kathy Marks book on the Pitcairn sexual assault trials is called Lost Paradise: From Mutiny on the Bounty to a Modern-Day Legacy of Sexual Mayhem, the Dark Secrets of Pitcairn Island Revealed as it gives a very serious topic a salacious label. There is nothing titillating about child sexual abuse. The fact is Pitcairn was never a paradise. It was born in mutiny, misogyny, racism, slavery, and colonialism. The fact that the Pitcairn Islanders abused their children for generations is tragic, but given their legacy and isolation, hardly surprising.
That said, Marks writers about the abuse and its victims with great sensitivity. The title is just way off the mark.
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