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A controversial documentary movie about the abusiveness of the Catholic boarding schools (of past days, today only few survive) was released in Vienna. The Austrian bestselling author Michael Kohlmeier, who in his childhood had attended such schools, was interviewed after the opening. There he dared to voice his view that the whole issue about child abuse had gone into a totally wrong direction by putting its concentration on sexual abuse and creating the awareness and general attitude and laws exclusively into this corner. And nowhere else is more misinterpretation happening, as in reality the underlying motive and motivation for a large segment of these "crimes" has its roots in love, need for affection, need for tenderness, all actually positive human values. While on the other side the real abuse, the physical and mental abuse, mistreatment, the threats, use of force and power, creating the atmosphere of fear, etc. etc., which are so much more common and prevalent, go free, unnoticed and unpunished, truly sadistic tendencies. Isn't it time to change the system, change the laws, and bring sanity back?<br>
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<i>source: Letter to NAMBLA by 'Richard'; NAMBLA Updates Vol. IV No. 1; March 2009</i>

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