Response to criticism

I have received this letter from a reader:
comments = Fantasy or no, there is no reality in what you portray here. Facilities like this have existed in the past and have been shut down even by the governments that tend to most look the other way, Mexico, Thailand, Brazil, Russia, Slovakia, the United States, and others have stories of these types set in the past.

The typical response of someone to this kind of poorly conceived masochistic control-based education is usually resistance to the point of being sent to asylums for the insane, where corrupt doctors are bribed to perform frontal lobotomies in order to silence them about the horrors they have experienced. "Students" who have died, often from suicide but commonly from extreme abuse, are kept buried on the grounds and their families are told they are alive and well until eventually they claim the 'student' has run away... obviously never to be heard from again. Obviously, this kind of behavior on a longer time scale led to many questions being asked, which led to arrests and shutting down of these facilities (many of which were literally slave houses run by Catholic Churches). Less than one out of every ten males conform to masochistic dominance that they did not seek themselves. Psychiatric studies show that the vast majority prefer to rebel unto their own deaths, than become subject slaves to falsely contrived masochistic power-hungry deviants. For those that seek an sado-masochistic experience, all power to them. For the rest, you'll find that your story is less to do with any possible reality than a Grimm's Fairy Tale.

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I am sorry, but such places do still exist.

I guess that the poor teenagers detained at Escuela Caribe and Coral Reef Academy do not give consent to be spanked.

I guess that a lot of children placed at WWASP, AEG and UHSINC facilities do not give consent to participation at various LGAT seminars. And for those who died, I do not think that they gave their consent to die.

It is correct that both Mexico (2001 and 2004), Costa Rica (2003), Czech republic (1998) has shut facilities down and right now Nevada and Utah have asked Sky View Academy and Youth Care to stop taking new teenagers in. Escuela Caribe would also refrain from moving staff members accused of sexual abuse from one facility to another after the case where it ended with a conviction of a staff member.

Maybe my stories are not reality. I certainly hope so. I have used actual psychological "games" received from survivors of these places in my story, but most people and especially the parents don't know, because they hire an escort company to get their child in restraints without even seeing the facility before enrollment and on the top of it agree to refrain from actually see their child for some time (months!!). They even agree to monitored mail and phone communication.

But as you say. It would be the best if you are right and it is not reality. Lets hope so and settle with enjoying the stories.