I have namechanged.
I grew up protected from all men, because of the possibility I might be abused by them. The reason for this was that my mum was abused by a family friend, and when she told she wasn't believed, so she took the view of some on this thread, that her children would be protected from all men, in case they did to us what was done to her. I have one sister and a brother, and we have all experienced this in different ways.
As a teenager I felt unable to relate to boys at all. I found it impossible to be alone with them, I wasn't able to form relationships, because I had grown up never knowing what it was like having a one to one relationship with anyone of the opposite sex. The first time I was kissed by a boy I ran away because I had been brought up to believe that intimacy from anyone male was wrong. It has taken me until I was 25, and several years of counselling, to finally accept that all men are not out to get me.
My sister on the other hand, rebelled when she was a teenager. Because she craved love she went looking for it, and became very promiscuous. She fell pregnant at 13 and had a termination, and did the same at 15. She has a serious drug addittion, and she has been unable to hold on to any relationship.
My brother has never had a relationship because he grew up knowing that men should not be trusted, so he doesn't trust himself to be with a woman, because he feels that if he ever had children with a woman, he would not be allowed to have a relationship with them, in the same way we were never allowed to have relationships with men as children.
And we didn't grow up as part of a disfunctional family, our mother was an inteligent, level headed woman who said she was always there to protect us. She never told us that men were evil, she just never let us be alone with any of them, and once we got older it became more obvious that this was what was happening.
Those who think it won't damage your children, think again.