Considering my admittedly overly sentimental posting of yesterday
about Manuel and Bradley and my own boyhood awakening to sexual
feelings, I conclude that prepubescent boys, generally, do not have
overtly sexual impulses per se. This is not to say they are not aware
of their sex or that diddling the little sailor [as it were] does not
feel good. Of course it does. Some of the little fellows can hardly
keep their hands off of him. As a boy I had a deep curiosity about my
own body, nakedness and the nature of sex ... but it was only upon
puberty that this fascination was melded with a hormonal sexual drive.
All too frequently, this can be the source of tremendous hurt . It is
no mistake that the phallus has, throughout human history, been
identified with war and conquest, either as a symbol or as a weapon.
Even so, the sexual aspect to boylove, I believe can be good and
supportive in a man-boy relationship. The belief among heterosexual
adults that horror and nearly incurable damage wrought upon a youth
found in such a relationship draws not from the boy himself,who is
naive, but from the adults' own sexual awareness. Any shame or
humiliation a boy feels was taught to him by the adults around him.
God Save Her Majesty the Queen.
God Preserve the Prince of Wales.
Rule Britannia!
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