The Heart

Episode one of Silent Evidence; one woman’s story of childhood sexual abuse.

When I was younger, someone took a knife to my clitoris and cut out a small, but significant part of me.

“I will listen to the song when I’m 80, a grandmother to children born of someone other than you.”

“It was April, unseasonably cold, cruelly wet. You were in a restaurant pumped hot with studio lights.”

“Her past loves are with her always, in the form of small objects that she keeps. Her boyfriend has his own objects.”

“Sometimes you can be in one place and everything seems right. And then the wind changes, even just a little bit, and everything seems different, or everything seems normal and that's terrifying.”

“Leaning over my shoulder, you cast a shadow on everything. Things are dark and blurry — and I am drowning.“

"The time that god punished you for having a threesome with my sister."

I didn’t really know her. I didn’t know why I called her. She came over and watched me watch ‘Sister Wives’ until we fell asleep.

“Oh, I do miss my husband,” she wailed. “Where is he? Why do all sweethearts cuddle tonight except me?”

This is the kinda-sorta-true love story of Idiot + Dummy — two boneheads in love.

For girls like us, famous boys aren’t really boys — they’re canvasses on which we may splatter the full spectrum of our feelings. They are a safe way for us to experience longing and love, because they’ll never hurt us. Not if we don’t meet them.

One man’s solitary quest to fulfill a desire and overcome shame.

Probably thousands of different vibrators have come and gone over the decades but there is one that has outlasted them all.

The Heart is hosting a celebration of love, commitment and business, also known as...a WEDDING!