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and then lastly this this the last vacation story for today
one of the places I visited was %uh Lugano Switzerland
and this is really a disturbing story that made me
physically nauseous when I observed it um we we took a boat
right over to work a little too like at the hill town and by hill town I mean
literally is on the side of a
a cliff on a hill it's just a a very small town called Gondia
and on the way back we were on one of these boats that has a curfew levels
and we got enough Sun that day so about halfway through the trip we walk down
into the covered
area of the boat where there are others kinda like a
and I'll down the middle and their seats facing each other on either side of the
aisle
there was a group of about 10 some %uh whom
seem to be related who were hanging out there and
I look over and i notice what seems to be a kid that looks to be about 11 or 12
years old
very touchy feely with an individual that look to be about 25 years old
and something about it struck me as odd may continue watching them eventually
the 11 a 12 year old kid has his head
in the lapd above the 25-year-old in a way that seems to me
not on *** there was something *** about it
and I continue watching and I observe
that the 25 ish year old starts touching the 11-year-olds chest
and then moving his hands down to the kids Bailey Button
and moving his hands down to where he is very clearly
fondling an 11-year-old *** on the boat
now at this point I become a little bit disturbed as to what's going on because
no matter what the situation is there's a 25-year-old and there's a kid who
clearly is no older than 12 may have only been 11 years old
I start listening to the conversation going on behind me
and I hear conversation they are
up the the family the family that was
involved in the that had the twenty five-year-old in the eleven-year-old
we're not speaking English they appear to be speaking I
and and Asian language if some kind and the individuals behind me were speaking
a very British English and they were saying we go back to London tomorrow
and then they go back to Sri Lanka next week
so we're dealing with the group a Sri Lankan family
or are traveling group of some kind so
I continue observing these two individuals and when the boat docks they
get up
and the 25-year-old is standing behind the eleven or twelve year old
hip to hip and they're making contact there clearly grinding it's clearly not
it's clearly the type of thing you would observe if you are in a position
in a *** position do you understand what i'm saying Lewis I definitely
understand what you're saying
yeah and this continues and we ended up getting off the boat
now I said I need to do something there's clearly abuse this kid clearly
is
is being touched sexually his *** was being fondled
I need to do something and I said what what am I gonna do
I don't know who these people are there's really no police around here i
mean that doesn't appear to be a crime area have any kind who do I talk to you
then it's hearsay how do I identify these people what what do i do I don't
really know what to do
and i ended up doing nothing and the situation sicken me
afterwards I did a little bit of research and I was reminded that
there was an and our Arthur C Clarke story I read arthur C clarke the science
fiction author lived
in Sri Lanka for a long time and he wrote about what we're relationships
between
man and boys that were not considered *** relationships per se
and I don't but they were considered kind of like mentorship relationships
in Sri Lanka that included *** type
touching I have no idea at all if when he wrote about that he was not writing
about something specific he had observed
but broadly about something that is part of the culture in Sri Lanka I have no
idea
but that's something that came to mind I don't know what was going on
it didn't seem right to me Lewis and the situation was truly disgusting
I don't know what to say about that that that's crazy I don't know I don't know
what I would have done by
a if I I don't know
I mean I'd I'd like to think I I wouldn't
stand up in an physically intervene but the
I don't know that would have crossed your mind to physically intervene if you
saw
I have to gauge it out maybe yeah and he certainly when when you're talking
describing it to me I
it did yeah did cross my mind it's one of these things where
it it clearly seems like abuse and I can't imagine any cultural norms after
hearing that they were from Sri Lanka that would have made it okay
but I just II I don't know I i froze maybe is what it is
and I don't know I i I don't feel good about the entire thing obviously
and I would love to hear from people you're your thoughts on the situation
I just because just because it's a cultural norm doesn't mean
that morally it's okay there are plenty of cultural norms that are
that are completely your repulsive in repugnant they should not exist at all
anywhere
no question about it was more that have a thing right from sitting across the
bow tie start you start second-guessing and saying
might I have missed something where if I had
seen something different and understood some core
cultural norm I might have a different opinion and its totally hypothetical but
you're absolutely right with that
so just because something is culturally acceptable does not mean that is cool
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