Pederasty On Line

This book is a ground-breaking study of the Greek institution of paiderastia. This was a custom by which adolescent men made alliances with older men of a romantic and sexual nature. The young men in question were the same age as contemporary teen pop stars (aproximately from puberty to the Athenian age of majority, 21). And they were treated similarly, as celebrities, showered with gifts and attention, and fought over by lovers. Philosophers such as Plato treated paiderastia as a remedy for tyranny, the bedrock of a cultured society, and a pure form of love.

No doubt John Addington Symonds' Problem in Greek Ethics was written from what Gore Vidal would call an "homosexualist" point of view, though less overtly so than a similar book would be written today. Those preoccupied with the question of homosexual relations in a free society might find this a useful resource, though I am not myself so preoccupied at the moment. But when I have nothing else to post, and my "peeps" begin to wonder what has become of me, a visit to New Listings on the Online Books page often turns up some pure, and even some impure, gold. Also new for April 15, Scott-Elliot's Lost Lemuria, on the same site, as it happens.

Cheers, all.

The Beast on Woman Worship

"Not that women themselves are unclean; it is the worship of them as ideals that rots the soul." Uncle Al Crowley in defense of sodomy, quoted by realimposter.

Ah, the poor man! Was the Victorian ideal of womanhood, at least at the time he wrote this, the only one he had seen? We are truly fortunate to be better situated!

Not ours anymore...

"Our policy is once a moose is dead, it's not ours anymore. People are stuck moving them themselves," state biologist Rick Sinnott. "People get very upset with us, obviously. They figure it's still our moose."