From: TURTLE              
To: SNAKEBYTE           
Subject: Association    
Date & Time: 08/04/90 01:06:24
Message Number  7205

>Do YOU feel that child sexual abuse, incest, bestiality, sexual
>S&M or any of these things are 'sicknesses'...
 
Violent, antisocial behavior is violent, antisocial behavior regardless
of its sexual content. Child sexual abuse is a sickness in exactly
the same way that child abuse is a sickness; it's a pathological
violent condition. Whether or not you'd call any form of child abuse
a sickness depends on how you look at it, I guess--most child molestors
say they can't help themselves, ditto with child abusers--but there is
no intrinsic difference between sexual and non-sexual forms of
child abuse. Same thing for animal abuse, be it sexual or non-sexual.
Rape is an act of violence; so is murder. You don't often hear people
wandering around saying murderers are "sick;" the mindset during an act
of rape is essentially the same.
 
You tell me. Would you say that a person who sexually abuses children
is sick while a person who simply beats them is healthy? Is it just
the sexual aspect that causes you to call it "sick?" A peculiar defi-
nition of sickness, if that's the case.