Is it wrong what my relatives are doing?
I come from Europe but my maternal relatives come from South East Asia. Some of them there touch little children down there. Like poke, pinch or rub there. I’ve seen it mostly on girls cuz there are more girls. They don’t do it like suggestively.
My grandma also used to put her face down in my vagina and I don’t remember exactly what she did. She does it even with clothes off. I remember she did up to I was like 6-8 years old. I had to kick her face away cuz I don’t want her to. They prob been touching me more down there when I was a baby cuz I have noticed they do it more to younger children.
They started doing it to my 2,8 year old sister too. Which I really didn’t want them to do. She says ‘stop’, ‘no’ and looks really uncomfortable but they don’t listen, I also did that when I was younger. My older uncle when he’s drunk keeps asking to touch her butt and genital area. He took off her pants and kissed her on her bare butt. She screamed and cried, so I got really scared for her. So I kept pushing his hands away. My mom and grandma blame me for being scared for her. Said something in their language, which I didn’t fully understand but I know it was something about my actions being ‘overreacting’. My grandma jokes to my sister about our uncle touching her butt and genitals. My uncle also goes around in the village and touches other kids in front of their caretaker.
Many of them also asks her for a kiss, if she says no. Then they will just ask over and over again. If she keeps saying no, they will just force to kiss her anyway. It’s mostly my uncles doing this. If she says no, sometimes they will say that they will be sad or that they need a kiss, to do this particular favour for her. I don’t really like this because I feel like it teaches her the wrong things and won’t teach her consent. She barely knows these people too, she hasn’t met them before in real life except my grandma.
But my mom let it all happen, if I didn’t step up, they would still keep touching her. But they still keep asking for kisses like 24/7 (no kidding). I brought it up with my mom, she got really mad and screamed at me and told me that this is what they do here. She told me it’s okay to do it when they are younger and they don’t do it when they are older. Why is it okay to touch her however they want because she’s younger? I don’t understand why. But my uncle keeps touching me weirdly too but I’m 20, maybe not on my privates. But he keeps kissing me on places other than my face. On my waist, back and such.
In my opinion, I don’t think it’s right and the laws say that as well. But everyone makes it seem like it’s okay and it seems to be a cultural thing there. I mean I didn’t like being touched down there so why should you. It’s not necessary, I didn’t feel so loved when they did that. I don’t think my sister felt so loved when they did that as well and forcefully kissing her.
What do you guys think?