(urth) On Pedophilia and Homosexuality

[Jerry Friedman]

I wrote:

...

> When Roche takes Severian to the House Azure, he warns him not to "strike her 
>or 
>
> use a grip", because they charge more.  Why should it be so likely that a 
> torturer's apprentice would do the same thing in a sexual situation that he 
>does 
>
> to force the younger boys to obey him?  Just askin'.

Actually, this is not a good argument, since Severian asks whether people do 
that and Roche says that "amateurs" (is that how the Guild thinks of non-Guild 
sadists?) do.  I'd say it's still possible to read the passage the way I did, 
but much less likely.

Jerry Friedman