“As with infanticide, the sexual abuse of children is widely reported by anthropologists, but in positive terms. […] "This would not constitute 'abuse' if in that society the behavior was not proscribed". Like all other anthropologists who report the regular masturbating and sucking of children's genitals, he [L. L. Langness] calls this "love".”

— Lloyd deMause

Source: The Emotional Life of Nations (2002), Ch. 7, pp. 262-263 & 266.

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