Amidst the near-holocaust proportion of anti-pedophile hysteria, a
number of facts about man/boy love have been ignored. Consensual
sexually expressed friendships between boys and men exist. Age of
consent laws and prosecutorial attitudes treat all man/boy contacts as
abuse although there is no justification to do so. True pedophile
desire is built around the boy's pleasure. Prohibition of all
pedophile acts is unjust and implies the persecution of a minority.
Even worse than the hatred expressed towards boylovers is the complete
ignorance of the positive aspects of sexually expressed friendships
between boys and men. Religious 'sexual morality' commonly opposed to
boylove, as highly questionable as it is on a scholarly basis, cannot
be legislated by the state. Current laws violate boys' rights to
sexual self-determination. Lawmakers should remove age of consent laws
and vigilantly prevent intervention into voluntary relationships. Many
boys possess very natural 'expressed needs' for sexual attention from
a person of their own choosing: an adult male friend who instills
trust, courage, love and affection through the intimate sexual
friendship, a friend who
treats the boy as an equal and in doing so boosts the boy's feeling of
self-esteem and self-worth.
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