BourBohemian

Sure - when obviously there is exploitation going on, then what's going on is gravely wrong and ought to be dealt with accordingly. But there's the absolutism of Age of Consent laws, where that they stigmatize otherwise normal and non-pathological relationships. When it comes to prosecution of adult-child sexual contact - it ought in my opinion be done on a case by case basis instead of an inquisitorial blanket over all instances. Instead what we have today is an almost puritan approach to child sexuality.

I'll more than likely receive plenty of thoughtful remarks for this, but I feel obligated to speak out. I have long protested the witch hunt hysteria against Man/Boy love in particular, as it clearly - and obviously has its cardinal roots in humanity itself; from various cultures, civilizations, and times where something that was once free of repression now consists of a moral hysteria. One has to back to the days of the Roman Inquisition to find a parellel situation in regard to the current lynch mob mentality that bears no real understanding of the phenomena that is Man/Boy love. Why do I feel obligated? I had several sexual experiences with a 34 year old man who worked on my dad's farm when I was 11 years old. What began as a "Man without a Face" friendship evolved into a Man/Boy romance. I consented to the sexual friendship and have always to this very day looked back on it as something benevolent. However the legal and moral rectitudes of today's sex-obsessed society would consider such a sexual relationship as "child molestation, abuse" under the junk science mentality that since I was below the age of consent, it's automatically "child abuse". I prefer a more eloquent, rational broach of the subject - in particular respect to the academic responses on the subject and cultural ones; like Allen Ginsberg's support for NAMBLA, and subsequently Camille Paglia's support for the liberation of Boylovers and the Boys they fall madly in love with. And the whole thing with NAMBLA anway... a 5 year-old girl who is raped by her father has absolutely nothing in common with a young gay boy who has a fling with an older man.

New here, just found this forum and I find it interesting of a metaphysics stand point. I am a Gnostic Christian and much like Galileo Galilei, I find no contradiction in spirituality in regard to science - like gnostics, science itself is a method by way physics. Look foward to posting