[mad puppy]

I had a very good female friend in H.S. who, during our Senior year, told me that her dad had been having sex with her for years.

Let me just say that based on that single example it will be VERY difficult to convince me sex abuse in not harmful. Even at the 20 year reunion, she was haunted by it.

[tiki]

My sister also had a friend who was sexually abused by her father(he abused all 3 of his daughters). And yes, these girls have paid the price all their lives. I remember smiling when I heard he died a long, painful death.

[End Times Sentinel]

 it will be VERY difficult to convince me sex abuse in not harmful.

Before I respond, I want to make it perfectly clear I'm not trying to diminish child molesting or pederasty in ANY WAY!  That being said, in the example you have, it's even worse, because it destroys the boundry of sex not having a place anywhere.  I mean if the home and your family isn't a sex free zone, where is one?

There's an extra hot place in hell for cretins like your friend's father.

Owl_Eagle

(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,

 it was probably sarcasm)

[proudofthesouth]

I was molested when I was 12. It's haunted me for many decades.

[Banjoguy]

No matter what form the molestation takes, one's life is immediately and forever changed.

One's childhood is purloined, leaving behind in it's place, confusion, guilt and pain.