(urth) On Pedophilia and Homosexuality

[brunians at brunians.org]

The members of the guild are not generally sadists.

What gives you the impression that they are?

They are professionals.

Professionals don't by and large do these things for entertainment.

Do corrections officers hold their children prisoner? I imagine some do.

Parents that are not corrections officers do too sometimes.

I am certain that all do not.

The guild training is designed to turn out human beings who are not
inherently corrupt in this way.

Palaemon states this explicitly.

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> 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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>
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