I see no harm in my either "intellectualising" boylove - that is, trying to understand where we are - or talking it up a little - there are enough people in the world talking it down or saying that it is all harmful and traumatising. I'm trying to redress the balance a little. Obviously not all man-boy sexual encounters are going to be good. Neither are all heterosexual encounters. There is no reason to take cases of institutionalised assault as somehow uniquely characteristic of boylove, as opposed to any other kind of sexuality operating under the kind of repression to which we are subject. Look at history, and you will find a different picture of boylove, a picture somewhat different from the abuse paradigm that you seem to be essentialising. |