"Ryan Ginstrom" <ginstrom@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:2mqu73Fq385kU1@uni-berlin.de...
> John W. wrote:
> > On the prison note, in the US convicts there for anything to do with
> > children (physical abuse, rape, molestation, etc.) are generally
> > treated unfavorably. I wonder if that's the same in Japanese (or
> > other) prisons?
>
> Had this conversation with a group of Japanese once. They couldn't
> understand how a child molester could be looked down on as worse than a
> murderer. I guess in a Japanese prison they would spend most of their time
> swapping photos of scantily clad morning musume with the prison guards.

So may we assume then that, given the choice, you would have preferred to
have been murdered as a child rather than molested?