>I would like to suggest that Americans are no different from other
>people in this respect; in particular, if Australians were involved
>in this kind of thing, do you think they would behave in any other
>way?
There seems to be something characteristically American about the sexual tortures though. It's one weirdly repressed, religion-saturated culture meeting another. Australia stikes me as much more open and secular than the U.S., so their tortures might take different form.
Doug