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You really ought to put GLTTA into your magical link-generating machine. Parker Rossman’s Rings, Subcultures and the Underground mentions Rene Guyon in an overview of some tentative pederasty activism in the 70’s. Interesting that pederasts were less enthused about potential activism than sympathetic non-pederasts. Boy-lovers didn’t want to “rock the boat”. Easy to say with hindsight that they were right – but they were right. Political action for the right to have sex with boys was always doomed. Pederastic sex often stands modestly in the background, behind closed doors, letting the Platonic benefits of man-boy organisations be public face enough. Sure, people will “know”, but leading with the athletics club, the hunting-and-camping club, the academic club—focussing on these activities that pederasts love being involved in, brushing the sex question aside as of minimal importance—Look at how Johnny is thriving!—might have been a better approach. The idea that pederasty, as a minority sexual orientation, was ever going to join the Rainbow club – sorry, but they should have known that was a bust. The relevant paragraph: The Rene Guyon Society, a split from the Sexual Freedom League,[10] prepares legal briefs to help pederasts in court and testifies before legislative committees. A number of gay-homosexual publications, especially in Europe, also attempt to serve pederasts, among them is The Examiner in London, which in March of 1975 published a long interview with author Michael Davidson about his “paederastic inclinations.” These publications include news of such groups as the “Paedophile Action for Liberation,”[11] which in 1974 helped circulate a letter in Great Britain to selected educators, clergymen, social workers, physicians, and parents of teen-age boys, inviting them to join with pederasts in drafting a document and in founding an organization (which presumably would be half pederast but no one would know which half!) to work for “greater realism in legal practice” and education with regard to adult-adolescent sexual involvements. The proposal called for the creation of a core group of persons who would prepare a booklet, take resolutions to various organizations, and consult with groups of lawyers, especially asking for a review of the “age of consent” provisions presently in British law. Eighty per cent of the persons who were written to replied favorably. Ironically, pederasts were the most negative, worrying about “rocking the boat,” whereas non-pederasts generally approved of liberalizing the laws regulating adolescent sex practices, although some had reservations about the maturity of pederasts. As a result of conferences with certain Members of Parliament in June of 1975, this core group anticipated that the age of consent in Great Britain might soon be lowered three to five years.[12] |