I was wonder if this counts as abuse. When I was about 7, my step-dad remarried. I remember that my younger step-brother (by 11 months) starting playing sex games with me. It went far beyond the I'll show you mine if you show me yours behavior. I remember being naked in bed with him and he'd be touching my vagina and I'd also touch his penis. We would also french kiss and also rub our genitals together. It teetered off in a few years, but to this day is still bugs me. I often wondered if he was abused before I met him, and also if my acceptence of sexual behavior in this instance led to my tolerence of the undoubted sexually abusive behavior of his brother my step-brother who was 4 years older than I was, beginning around the time I was nine. I still feel very uncomfortable about this because he was younger than me, and we were both very young at the time.
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