On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:57:12 GMT, Tedn'Alice@BLDL.com wrote:
>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.
The saddest aspect of this hysteria is so ironic -- in the hysteria
over the approximately 10% of cases of sexual abuse involving
strangers, we are pushing kids to trust people who are 9 times more
likely to sexually abuse them -- their families and close friends of
the family. Stranger abuse is bad, but the betrayal of a trusted
family member or friend can be infinitely more devastating!
Certainly children need to be protected from the dangers of stranger
abduction and assault -- but why are we doing virtually nothing to
make them aware of the bigger danger to them?
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