(urth) On Pedophillia and Homosexuality

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Severian is an excellent judge of human nastiness.

Every good corrections officer is.


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> I agree. Although I am skeptical that the "boy" is a catamite. Severian
> thinks so, but he can be wrong.
>
> Matthew Weber wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Nicholas <nickjost at yahoo.com
>> <mailto:nickjost at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     " don't see where you get this from.  Granted Baldanders is not
>>     shown as having any sexual interest in women, and by default one
>>     might assume that such a character might (or might not) be gay.
>>      But the modified child in his bed hardly qualifies as a man."
>>
>>     You make two bad assumptions that the classic world didn't. The
>>     first is that sexual preference is fixed. As I pointed out this is
>>     a new (and I think very wrong) idea. Two, that the boys essential
>>     nature isn't human and male.  What is he, a female mouse? A Greek
>>     wouldn't understand the fine difference you're driving at to
>>     protect modern sensibilities (sensibilities trained by a halting
>>     assumption of Christian ethics). What difference does it make when
>>     I sleep with a slave that is three or thirty?
>>
>>
>> I wouldn't even say a halting assumption of Christian ethics; it's the
>> influence of the late 19th-century construction of the innocence of
>> childhood (of course, only middle- and upper-class children were
>> innocent, as a perusal of the literature on Victorian child prostitution
>> will show).
>>
>> Nicholas' comments about sexual orientation are spot-on--see
>> Foucault's History of Sexuality for some very illuminating thinking on
>> this subject.
>> --
>> Matt +
>>
>> A grudging and infrequent worshipper of the gods.
>>     Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65-8 B.C.), Odes, bk. I [23
>> B.C.], ode xxxiv, l. 1
>>
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