(urth) On Pedophilia and Homosexuality
Jerry Friedman
jerry_friedman at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 21 22:07:57 PDT 2010
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
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