(urth) On Pedophillia and Homosexuality

[Nicholas]

" 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?

Seen from a Christian perspective Badlanders is an idolaterer of the worst and primal sort. This might explain his strange flirtations with Severian, he's the only man that can be seen as a rough equal. They are almost foils of each other.

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