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Of Men and Little Boys--Gerald Hannon [link]

Posted by Manstuprator on 2024-March-15 14:45:20, Friday

Of Men and Little Boys

by GERALD HANNON


Many conversations with "liberal" straight people on the topic of homosexuality follow 3 predictable format. After declaring that they don't care what we do in bed as long as it doesn't affect them, they express concern for the plight of children seduced and abused by a large and pathological segment of the homosexual population. Perhaps no other myth concerning homosexuals is so prevalent as this one, and though it has been laid to rest many times in the past, its persistence among otherwise enlightened folk decrees that it be interred once more. The facts are:

1. sexual relations between adults and young people seldom involve physical or mental coercion.

2. the incidence of violent seduction is higher among heterosexuals than among homosexuals.

When a child is violently forced into sexual compliance, the crime is one of assault and should be dealt with as such by the law. The sexual element is only of peripheral interest, and should be excluded from legal consideration.

All of this has been said many times, yet the myth persists, partly because most people are incapable of accepting the fact that children are sexual beings. For a variety of reasons, innocence is equated with purity in our culture, and purity with chastity, and it is unavoidable logically that if a child is to be innocent, he must also be chaste. In the world's most erotophobic culture - ours - sex is still the most persistent example of adult depravity; a concommitant of the fall from innocence and Eden.

I have seen a Mexican peasant grandmother soothe a fretful two year old boy by cooing to him and gently kissing and licking his cock and balls. The room was full of people - there was nothing furtive about her actions, in fact they were scarcely noted by the others. I might add that the boy was soon peacefully asleep.

1 ask you to try and imagine a suburban North American mother or babysitter doing the same thing. It is inpossible. The woman would be considered depraved beyond redemption.

That the topic of child sexuality arouses such a violent reaction in the straight world is understandable - it is less easy to countenance the attitudes of the gay community. In the pecking order, "chicken hawks" are well near the bottom. They are objects of amusement and contempt, and many more responsible members of the gay community feel the need to apologize for their presence, and to declare that they are an almost non-existent minority. They fear that the whole movement may be discredited by the actions of these recalcitrant few.

The time has come to face the fact that there is a sizeable minority of gay men who are primarily interested in sexual relationships with adolescents, and that these people, by the mere fact of their sexual preference, are working - albeit often unwittingly - towards some of the ideals of gay liberation with regard to the family.

To illustrate my point, let us examine the child in relation to the family as it exists today. The familial power structure is oppressive and stultifying and based on mutual manipulation. The child is one of the possessions of the parents, a eunuchoid doll that is supposed to attain to sexual awareness at 18, gleefully enduring celibacy thereafter until an appropriate marriage has been consumated. Anything which could free the child from this ennervating environment is important . Sex is something that does. A child's sexual life turns him outward from the family; by its very nature it is exploratory and community oriented, and once begun the child is in the process of leaving home, psychologically at least. The straight world considers us to be dangerous where children are concerned.
The irony is that they are right - not to the physical well being of their offspring however, but to the family structure that imprisons them, a structure based in part on the concept of possession. "In some cultures children have only a very vague concept of family relationship, and the rearing of children is something of a communal effort . . .Often in these cultures the concept of motherhood and fatherhood is very vague. These cultures tend also to be very sex-positive in comparison with our culture." (Wainwright Churchill: Homosexual Behaviour Among Males, Prentice Hall, Inc., page 306. The italics are mine.)

It is easy to see that this article could now move into the area of children's rights generally, but I shall content myself with saying that if the child is to cease being property, if it is to attain to full civil liberties, if it is to achieve economic independence, if it is to relate meaningfully to society as a whole, then of necessity it must move away from the family unit of the Christian West. Anyone who leads the child into sexual awareness and exploration is helping to do just that.

We feel that one of the most positive aspects of the sexual drive is its variety and unpredictability, and from this point of view it is hypocritical to assume that pedophiles represent a group to which one either does or does not belong. All gay men should face the fact that at some point in their lives they may be captivated by some particularly luminous young man, and they should be prepared to embrace that experience joyfully, confident that the experience is potentially an enriching one for both parties and a step towards a sex-positive culture.

Loving a child and expressing it sexually is revolutionary activity. The activists of tomorrow are more than likely in someone's arms today.

GERALD HANNON


So, what do you think?

Is "loving a child and expressing it sexually" a revolutionary activity?

Could your Young Friends of yesterday be the activists of tomorrow?

M.
And should the "gays" get off our case, and leave us alone?

SOURCE:
THE BODY POLITIC
gay liberation newspaper
No.5, July/August 1972, p.3
Toronto, Canada.
Available for viewing/download at archive.org.
https://archive.org/details/bodypolitic05toro


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