On 15 Aug 2010 11:22:02 -0500, Luke <Luke@Lurking.orgy> wrote:
>FROM: HMS Victor Victorian <victorvictorian@hushunomail.com>
>
>> On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:15:54 -0400, NP-f31 wrote:
>>
>>>Hey Double V,
>>>
>>>Are you back from vacation yet?
>>>
>>>Love,
>>>
>>>Doc
>>>NP-f31
>>
>> Dearest Doc,
>>
>> I apologise for having neglected my correspondence of late. Thank you
>> for your kind letter to my hush account some days hence. I am
>> flattered.
>>
>> I have been quite busy lately, having just secured a permanent
>> position as instructor at a small institution. I gladly accept the
>> luxury of not having to worry about money in my accounts quite as much
>> as usual, but understand that luxury draws heavily on the account of
>> time. I have also just completed watching the wonderful 1976
>> mini-series by the BBC, "I Claudius." I'd read Graves work better
>> than twenty years ago, but had never seen it. Although the work is a
>> masterpiece, and there were several young boys in short tunics in
>> several scenes (tho' nothing revealing-blast!), my opinion of the
>> Roman imperial families was confirmed, that they were conniving,
>> treacherous and brutal--and that their perversions were equally so.
>
>This is so true. I was into Social Work and Psychology before I quickly
>burned-out in a few years time. We studied the Romans and the Greeks
>about their sexuality and how they treated their children during my basic
>training. They kept records. What you are saying is true. Even the French
>and British kept records of how children - poor or rich, common or noble
>- were treated as sex objects.
>
>I love your style of writing, your expressions come across like a
>colourfull rainbow.
>
>I return to my lurking.
>
>>
>> In the film, Gaius Caesar Germanicus, better known by the chilling
>> name of Caligula, finds annoying the chronic cough of a boy of the
>> court, perhaps eleven years of age, who was favoured by Claudius. He
>> sends the General of his Praetorian Guard to the lad with instructions
>> to make it right. Presently the General returns and presents
>> Caligula with, dripping in gore, the poor boy's head. With a smile,
>> Caligula comments to Claudius, "Oh, yes. And I've cured his cough."
>>
>> This particular atrocity seems unsubstantiated in the historical
>> records, but I find there are many such cruelties to children that are
>> a matter of record. Tiberius, who preceded Caligula, kept an island
>> resort where little girls ran naked as nymphs ... and as did little
>> boys. The Emperor took frequent pleasure in raping the girls ... and
>> enjoyed snapping the necks of the little boys with his bare hands. Can
>> you imagine! Monstrous sadism! Monstrous!
>>
>> I've never postured that young boys, however comely and willing, could
>> not be utter beasts in much the way of the older folks. Additionally,
>> looking at the supposed sanctity of children from a completely
>> objective point of view, a human child could be seen as having no more
>> intrinsic value than a cockroach child, and that it could equally be
>> conceived therefore that the killing of the former could engender no
>> more guilt than the killing of the latter.
>>
>> And so it was ... and, I fear, in many places still is. Considering
>> these terrible things, and despite all the injustices and hatred
>> suffered by Boylovers nowadays, I am grateful that I live and love in
>> these times!
>>
>> As an aside, I once heard there was an emperor who enjoyed swimming in
>> the nude. He never swam alone, but in the company of a dozen or so
>> hand-picked naked young boys who leapt into the water as soon as the
>> Emperor did. As the emperor paddled his way across, his "little
>> sharks" as he called them, would come up beneath him and nibble gently
>> as his ... well, you get the idea. I hope this fellow wasn't
>> Tiberius, for that would ruin this wonderful mirage of paradise.
>>
>> Nevertheless, I think I'll put in a pool.
>>
>> Sincerely Yours,
>>
>> HMS Victor Victorian
>> God Save the Queen.
>> God Bless the Prince of Wales.
>> God Preserve the Windsors.
>> Rule Britannia!
>>
Dear Luke Lurker,
Thank you for your comments, and your compliments. I would add that
for a millenium or two, the children of large-scale societies, such as
Rome, or Britain for that matter, were not regarded with as much
deference and care as in society now. They were often less sexual
objects than simply objects--provided, of course, they were not one's
own children! In cultures large and small, one's own children
represent one's own heart and aspiration with very few exception ...
even among those we might consider the most unrefined of peoples.
It is thus tragic that this understanding is too frequently not
extended to children of others, producing Romanesque outrages to this
very day. The organized killing of street urchins in parts of Latin
America comes to mind, or the outrages in Sudan ... ad nauseum.
Those who wield great power believe they need not those who have none.
They scorn the weak and vulnerable and invariably abuse them in the
most heinous ways. The exaulted believe their power shall never end,
only to discover their error, as Lucius Aelius Sejanus, the Emperor
Tiberius' praetorian prefect discovered. Having slain children of
Tiberius' enemies as if no more than dogs, Sejanus and his family,
including his young, beautiful son and daughter, would be butchered.
So sweeps the fatal edge of that ageless blade known today by its more
benevolent name, The Golden Rule.
Sincerely,
HMS Victor Victorian, NP-g18
God Save the Queen.
God Bless the Prince of Wales.
God Preserve the Windsors.
Rule Britannia!
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