From: SNAKEBYTE           
To: TURTLE              
Subject: Association    
Date & Time: 08/11/90 10:24:14
Message Number  7542

I feel that when "sexual" context is not involved, there is always 
degrees of a criminal act (or sick act if you prefer). Like hitting
a kids butt with a wooden paddle is okay, but hitting him on the back 
is abuse. Slapping a kid around because he wouldn't be quiet in a 
resteraunt is okay, but doing it because he could figure out how to
fix the radio he broke is abuse. There are many lines of levels until
you cross the "sexual" barrier. Then its' all lumped together. Why
isn't the same opinion held for non-sexual child offenses as are
held for sexual (for by your own admission, sex in these cases is
a form of violence)? Oh yeah, just for sake of arguement, I WAS 
sexually abuse once when I was three and had it held from me until
I was thirty, had nightmares of it all the time. When my mother 
started to tell me about it I described the whole event to her in detail
. Really shocked her...but explained the source of my dreams.