Unless someone is young and exploring how BL's (both good and bad) have lived their lives throughout history, I see little interest in this book for the mature BL who has already gone through that stage himself. From Edmund's excerpt which he holds up as a preview and teaser of the book, I am actually put off. Traveling to Holland in the 1980's to buy illegal pornography and then contacting a boy pimp so as to have paid sex with some too-old teen prostitute is hardly intriguing. It's hardly boylove either, seeing as there is no actual boy involved and that there is no love either. Boylove is not prostitution. Classifying this sort of thing as a "full life as a BL" misses the point as to what a full life really is. Sex tourism and prostitution is a full life? Even taking away the whoring aspects, is that how your ilk defines a BL life well lived, by sex? Sex is nice and sex is important, but to hem oneself in as a BL in that way is so limiting. But why am I surprised at the adoration this book receives from the usual suspects? Many at Boychat have no moral dilemma with paying boys for sex or of strongly manipulating relationships towards that end meanwhile telling themselves the boy initiated it. It's been many years since members of this board discussed boys as if they were real people. Instead we discuss boys as a strange abstraction devoid of even the scent of the real. Objects of our own obsessions rather than as individuals with feelings and needs. Of course we conveniently ignore any feelings and needs of boys that contradict our own fantasies and desires lest we give the game away. |