https://www.boywiki.org/en/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Thomasmann&feedformat=atomBoyWiki - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T11:38:57ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.41.0https://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=Talk:John_Geoghan&diff=35789Talk:John Geoghan2016-05-08T15:56:50Z<p>Thomasmann: clarify</p>
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<div>Wikipedia:<br />
:He was found guilty in January 2002 of indecent assault and battery for grabbing the buttocks of a 10-year-old boy in a swimming pool at the Waltham Boys and Girls Club in 1991, and was sentenced to nine to ten years in prison.<br />
*"grabbing the buttocks"? What kind of "crime" is that? Incredible! Playing the (familiar) game of "grab ass" will send someone to ''prison''?<br />
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Most of the (so-called) "priest child molesters" actually '''''had sex with boys who were of legal age to do so'''''. The claims of "molestation" are bogus. Note that rarely are the ages of the boys mentioned--the reason for this is to hide the fact that the priests ''did not violate any laws''! A report was issued demonstrating that most of the so-called "molestation" was consensual, legal, homosexual sex. The report can be downloaded here. www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/child-and-youth-protection/upload/The-Nature-and-Scope-of-Sexual-Abuse-of-Minors-by-Catholic-Priests-and-Deacons-in-the-United-States-1950-2002.pdf<br />
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An article (one of many such) can be found here: http://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/priestly-sex-abuse-would-not-have-happened-without-homosexuals <br />
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If you want more information, google "report archdiocese homosexual priests" (without the quotation marks) or ask me. [[User:User4|User4]] ([[User talk:User4|talk]]) 14:26, 8 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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See also:<br />
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_and_Roman_Catholic_priests<br />
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jay_Report<br />
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church_sex_abuse_scandal <br />
(You have to "read between the lines" in these articles, as they are highly biased by the "victimologists") [[User:User4|User4]] ([[User talk:User4|talk]]) 14:32, 8 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:You're absolutely right about the boys being older. I don't know about '''legal''' though. [https://anonfiles.com/file/3d118bf2d838f9efebac389c574a1918 Here's a link to download]a peer reviewed study that came out called '''Differentiating Pedophilia from Ephebophilia in Cleric Offenders.''' Definitely worth reading. "One of the most significant findings from the survey was that the majority of victims were older boys. Survey results showed that 7,174 or 70% of the victims of cleric sexual abuse were boys ages 11 through 17 (John Jay College, 2004)." <br />
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:Most of the boys were 16/17. That's not pedophilia. These "pedo priests" were mostly just gay men who liked twinks. [[User:Thomasmann|Thomasmann]] ([[User talk:Thomasmann|talk]]) 15:45, 8 May 2016 (UTC)</div>Thomasmannhttps://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=Talk:John_Geoghan&diff=35788Talk:John Geoghan2016-05-08T15:50:22Z<p>Thomasmann: </p>
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<div>Wikipedia:<br />
:He was found guilty in January 2002 of indecent assault and battery for grabbing the buttocks of a 10-year-old boy in a swimming pool at the Waltham Boys and Girls Club in 1991, and was sentenced to nine to ten years in prison.<br />
*"grabbing the buttocks"? What kind of "crime" is that? Incredible! Playing the (familiar) game of "grab ass" will send someone to ''prison''?<br />
<br />
Most of the (so-called) "priest child molesters" actually '''''had sex with boys who were of legal age to do so'''''. The claims of "molestation" are bogus. Note that rarely are the ages of the boys mentioned--the reason for this is to hide the fact that the priests ''did not violate any laws''! A report was issued demonstrating that most of the so-called "molestation" was consensual, legal, homosexual sex. The report can be downloaded here. www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/child-and-youth-protection/upload/The-Nature-and-Scope-of-Sexual-Abuse-of-Minors-by-Catholic-Priests-and-Deacons-in-the-United-States-1950-2002.pdf<br />
<br />
An article (one of many such) can be found here: http://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/priestly-sex-abuse-would-not-have-happened-without-homosexuals <br />
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If you want more information, google "report archdiocese homosexual priests" (without the quotation marks) or ask me. [[User:User4|User4]] ([[User talk:User4|talk]]) 14:26, 8 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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See also:<br />
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_and_Roman_Catholic_priests<br />
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jay_Report<br />
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church_sex_abuse_scandal <br />
(You have to "read between the lines" in these articles, as they are highly biased by the "victimologists") [[User:User4|User4]] ([[User talk:User4|talk]]) 14:32, 8 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:You're absolutely right. [https://anonfiles.com/file/3d118bf2d838f9efebac389c574a1918 Here's a link to download]a peer reviewed study that came out called '''Differentiating Pedophilia from Ephebophilia in Cleric Offenders.''' Definitely worth reading. "One of the most significant findings from the survey was that the majority of victims were older boys. Survey results showed that 7,174 or 70% of the victims of cleric sexual abuse were boys ages 11 through 17 (John Jay College, 2004)." <br />
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:These "pedo priests" were mostly just gay men who liked twinks. [[User:Thomasmann|Thomasmann]] ([[User talk:Thomasmann|talk]]) 15:45, 8 May 2016 (UTC)</div>Thomasmannhttps://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=Talk:John_Geoghan&diff=35787Talk:John Geoghan2016-05-08T15:45:07Z<p>Thomasmann: respond to User4</p>
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<div>Wikipedia:<br />
:He was found guilty in January 2002 of indecent assault and battery for grabbing the buttocks of a 10-year-old boy in a swimming pool at the Waltham Boys and Girls Club in 1991, and was sentenced to nine to ten years in prison.<br />
*"grabbing the buttocks"? What kind of "crime" is that? Incredible! Playing the (familiar) game of "grab ass" will send someone to ''prison''?<br />
<br />
Most of the (so-called) "priest child molesters" actually '''''had sex with boys who were of legal age to do so'''''. The claims of "molestation" are bogus. Note that rarely are the ages of the boys mentioned--the reason for this is to hide the fact that the priests ''did not violate any laws''! A report was issued demonstrating that most of the so-called "molestation" was consensual, legal, homosexual sex. The report can be downloaded here. www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/child-and-youth-protection/upload/The-Nature-and-Scope-of-Sexual-Abuse-of-Minors-by-Catholic-Priests-and-Deacons-in-the-United-States-1950-2002.pdf<br />
<br />
An article (one of many such) can be found here: http://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/priestly-sex-abuse-would-not-have-happened-without-homosexuals <br />
<br />
If you want more information, google "report archdiocese homosexual priests" (without the quotation marks) or ask me. [[User:User4|User4]] ([[User talk:User4|talk]]) 14:26, 8 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
<br />
See also:<br />
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_and_Roman_Catholic_priests<br />
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jay_Report<br />
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church_sex_abuse_scandal <br />
(You have to "read between the lines" in these articles, as they are highly biased by the "victimologists") [[User:User4|User4]] ([[User talk:User4|talk]]) 14:32, 8 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:You're absolutely right. There's even a peer reviewed study that came out called [https://anonfiles.com/file/3d118bf2d838f9efebac389c574a1918 Differentiating Pedophilia from Ephebophilia in Cleric Offenders]. Definitely worth reading. "One of the most significant findings from the survey was that the majority of victims were older boys. Survey results showed that 7,174 or 70% of the victims of cleric sexual abuse were boys ages 11 through 17 (John Jay College, 2004)." <br />
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:These "pedo priests" were mostly just gay men who liked twinks. [[User:Thomasmann|Thomasmann]] ([[User talk:Thomasmann|talk]]) 15:45, 8 May 2016 (UTC)</div>Thomasmannhttps://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=John_Geoghan&diff=35770John Geoghan2016-05-08T10:20:11Z<p>Thomasmann: /* The Murder of John Geoghan */</p>
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<div>'''John J. Geoghan'''; (June 4, 1935 to August 23, 2003) was an American Roman Catholic priest who had sex with boys while he was assigned to parishes in the Boston, Massachusetts. He was reassigned several times to parish posts involving children, including after attempted treatment for [[pedophilia]]. Geoghan was finally convicted of sexual abuse, laicized, and sentenced in 2002 to nine to ten years in prison. He was initially sent to a medium security prison, but, because the guards hated him, they had him transferred to a maximum security prison. Less than a year later, he was murdered there by Joseph Druce, an inmate who is serving a life sentence.<br />
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== The Murder of John Geoghan ==<br />
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On August 23, 2003, while in protective custody at the maximum-security prison, Geoghan was strangled and stomped to death in his cell by inmate Joseph Druce. The latter was a self-described white supremacist serving a sentence of life without possibility of parole for killing a man who allegedly made sexual advances toward him. He was said to have planned the murder of Geoghan for more than a month, considering him a "prize." When John Geoghan's cell door locked, Druce jimmied it shut by jamming a paperback book into its upper track and a pair of nail clippers into the lower track. The ability to jam cell doors at SBCC from the inside is the result of a design defect, and has been known to staff and prisoners alike since shortly after the prison opened. He then took a sock he had inside his shirt, wrapped it around Geoghan's neck, and strangled him until he lost consciousness. Then, while Geoghan was on the floor, Druce repeatedly jumped onto him from the bed, breaking all of his ribs and crushing the old man's chest.<ref>https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2004/nov/15/a-death-in-custody-massachusetts-doc-wracked-by-scandal</ref><br />
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The press raised questions about prison officials' judgment in placing these two men in the same unit for protective custody. In addition, '''they had been warned by an inmate that Druce had something planned against Geoghan.'''<ref name="nytimes">Butterfield, Fox, [http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/26/national/26PRIE.html "Long Planning Is Cited in Death Of Former Priest"], ''The New York Times'', August 26, 2003</ref> <br />
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{{quote| '''Certain guards''' in the MCI-Concord protective custody unit (in Geoghan's case, two), who hated him because of the nature of his crime, because he was an educated man, because he had lived a privileged life as a priest, and because he came into prison with naive expectations of being afforded basic human dignity, '''took it upon themselves to break him. When they did not succeed in breaking him they decided to ensure that he would be transferred to maximum security where he would room with the wolves.''' This was accomplished by loading the quiet old man, who spent most of his time praying, reading, or playing cards, with false, serious disciplinary reports, and then using that bogus "disciplinary history" to manipulate his classification to maximum security. The process in Geoghan's case, however, was so blatant that substantial arm-twisting was necessary among prison officials before the old man was sent to his death.<br />
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The administrative panel concluded that '''Geoghan had been physically assaulted by a guard at MCI-Concord on at least one occasion following a visit from a priest, that he had "come into contact" with another guard at MCI-Concord following a visit from his sister, and that someone, probably another prisoner, had placed feces in Geoghan's cell at MCI-Concord on a third occasion.'''... The administrative panel found that the investigations of Geoghan's complaints against guards who harassed or assaulted him were "incomplete at best" and that Geoghan had received additional disciplinary reports for "lying" as a result of filing his complaints. The panel found that John Geoghan, a quiet old man, received a total of fifteen disciplinary reports during his incarceration in the protective custody unit at MCI-Concord, that this represented more disciplinary reports than were received by any other man in the unit during the time period that he was confined there, that eight of those reports were written by the same guard, one Cosmo Bisazza, and that Geoghan was the recipient of forty percent of all the disciplinary reports written by Bisazza against prisoners in the protective custody unit during the months in question.<br />
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The panel found that Sergeant Sheridan, one of the disciplinary hearing officers for MCI-Concord, had spoken to Bisazza about the disciplinary reports he had written against Geoghan. '''Sheridan told the investigators that he thought that the disciplinary reports written against Geoghan were either minor in nature, bad reports, or just "flat crap." He described Geoghan as a little old man who didn't bother anyone.''' The panel found that disciplinary reports written against Geoghan at MCI-Concord were "seldom in compliance with post orders." <br />
<br />
On February 28, 2003, John Geoghan appealed Anderson's recommendation to send him to SBCC (The Maximum Security Prison), pointing out the trivial nature of the two disciplinary reports at issue.....Not suprisingly they denied this appeal. Geoghan was sent to SBCC on April 1.<ref>https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2004/nov/15/a-death-in-custody-massachusetts-doc-wracked-by-scandal</ref>}}<br />
<br />
Geoghan was brutally murdered because the guards at the prison hated him for being a pedophile. '''The prison officials made it happen on purpose.''' They also leaked a youtube video of the guards trying to pry open the door after the murder. <ref>http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/YouTube-video-shows-priest-s-killer-Scene-2582753.php</ref> The video is [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjkHXDtoXAo still available on youtube.] Prison officials wanted to make sure everyone got to see the gruesome details. But that wasn't enough for them. In 2015, photos of Geoghan's mutilated corpse showed up online. Of course, "The Department of Corrections said it is investigating the photos." <ref>http://www.whdh.com/story/29737640/investigation-underway-into-photos-of-pedophile-priests-body</ref> "Who? Us? We have no idea?"<br />
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This story shines light on how far away we are from a civilized society. When it comes to pedosteria, society breaks down and everyone's a cave man. If you're in prison for pedophilia in the USA the guards might have you executed. This story proves that fact. It's probably just a matter of time before the same thing happens to [[Jerry Sandusky]].<br />
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== References ==<br />
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{{reflist}}</div>Thomasmannhttps://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=John_Geoghan&diff=35769John Geoghan2016-05-08T10:18:25Z<p>Thomasmann: medium vs max prison</p>
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<div>'''John J. Geoghan'''; (June 4, 1935 to August 23, 2003) was an American Roman Catholic priest who had sex with boys while he was assigned to parishes in the Boston, Massachusetts. He was reassigned several times to parish posts involving children, including after attempted treatment for [[pedophilia]]. Geoghan was finally convicted of sexual abuse, laicized, and sentenced in 2002 to nine to ten years in prison. He was initially sent to a medium security prison, but, because the guards hated him, they had him transferred to a maximum security prison. Less than a year later, he was murdered there by Joseph Druce, an inmate who is serving a life sentence.<br />
<br />
== The Murder of John Geoghan ==<br />
<br />
On August 23, 2003, while in protective custody at the maximum-security prison, Geoghan was strangled and stomped to death in his cell by inmate Joseph Druce. The latter was a self-described white supremacist serving a sentence of life without possibility of parole for killing a man who allegedly made sexual advances toward him. He was said to have planned the murder of Geoghan for more than a month, considering him a "prize." When John Geoghan's cell door locked, Druce jimmied it shut by jamming a paperback book into its upper track and a pair of nail clippers into the lower track. The ability to jam cell doors at SBCC from the inside is the result of a design defect, and has been known to staff and prisoners alike since shortly after the prison opened. He then took a sock he had inside his shirt, wrapped it around Geoghan's neck, and strangled him until he lost consciousness. Then, while Geoghan was on the floor, Druce repeatedly jumped onto him from the bed, breaking all of his ribs and crushing the old man's chest.<ref>https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2004/nov/15/a-death-in-custody-massachusetts-doc-wracked-by-scandal</ref><br />
<br />
The press raised questions about prison officials' judgment in placing these two men in the same unit for protective custody. In addition, they had been warned by an inmate that Druce had something planned against Geoghan.<ref name="nytimes">Butterfield, Fox, [http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/26/national/26PRIE.html "Long Planning Is Cited in Death Of Former Priest"], ''The New York Times'', August 26, 2003</ref> <br />
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{{quote| '''Certain guards''' in the MCI-Concord protective custody unit (in Geoghan's case, two), who hated him because of the nature of his crime, because he was an educated man, because he had lived a privileged life as a priest, and because he came into prison with naive expectations of being afforded basic human dignity, '''took it upon themselves to break him. When they did not succeed in breaking him they decided to ensure that he would be transferred to maximum security where he would room with the wolves.''' This was accomplished by loading the quiet old man, who spent most of his time praying, reading, or playing cards, with false, serious disciplinary reports, and then using that bogus "disciplinary history" to manipulate his classification to maximum security. The process in Geoghan's case, however, was so blatant that substantial arm-twisting was necessary among prison officials before the old man was sent to his death.<br />
<br />
The administrative panel concluded that '''Geoghan had been physically assaulted by a guard at MCI-Concord on at least one occasion following a visit from a priest, that he had "come into contact" with another guard at MCI-Concord following a visit from his sister, and that someone, probably another prisoner, had placed feces in Geoghan's cell at MCI-Concord on a third occasion.'''... The administrative panel found that the investigations of Geoghan's complaints against guards who harassed or assaulted him were "incomplete at best" and that Geoghan had received additional disciplinary reports for "lying" as a result of filing his complaints. The panel found that John Geoghan, a quiet old man, received a total of fifteen disciplinary reports during his incarceration in the protective custody unit at MCI-Concord, that this represented more disciplinary reports than were received by any other man in the unit during the time period that he was confined there, that eight of those reports were written by the same guard, one Cosmo Bisazza, and that Geoghan was the recipient of forty percent of all the disciplinary reports written by Bisazza against prisoners in the protective custody unit during the months in question.<br />
<br />
The panel found that Sergeant Sheridan, one of the disciplinary hearing officers for MCI-Concord, had spoken to Bisazza about the disciplinary reports he had written against Geoghan. '''Sheridan told the investigators that he thought that the disciplinary reports written against Geoghan were either minor in nature, bad reports, or just "flat crap." He described Geoghan as a little old man who didn't bother anyone.''' The panel found that disciplinary reports written against Geoghan at MCI-Concord were "seldom in compliance with post orders." <br />
<br />
On February 28, 2003, John Geoghan appealed Anderson's recommendation to send him to SBCC (The Maximum Security Prison), pointing out the trivial nature of the two disciplinary reports at issue.....Not suprisingly they denied this appeal. Geoghan was sent to SBCC on April 1.<ref>https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2004/nov/15/a-death-in-custody-massachusetts-doc-wracked-by-scandal</ref>}}<br />
<br />
Geoghan was brutally murdered because the guards at the prison hated him for being a pedophile. '''The prison officials made it happen on purpose.''' They also leaked a youtube video of the guards trying to pry open the door after the murder. <ref>http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/YouTube-video-shows-priest-s-killer-Scene-2582753.php</ref> The video is [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjkHXDtoXAo still available on youtube.] Prison officials wanted to make sure everyone got to see the gruesome details. But that wasn't enough for them. In 2015, photos of Geoghan's mutilated corpse showed up online. Of course, "The Department of Corrections said it is investigating the photos." <ref>http://www.whdh.com/story/29737640/investigation-underway-into-photos-of-pedophile-priests-body</ref> "Who? Us? We have no idea?"<br />
<br />
This story shines light on how far away we are from a civilized society. When it comes to pedosteria, society breaks down and everyone's a cave man. If you're in prison for pedophilia in the USA the guards might have you executed. This story proves that fact. It's probably just a matter of time before the same thing happens to [[Jerry Sandusky]].<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<br />
{{reflist}}</div>Thomasmannhttps://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=John_Geoghan&diff=35768John Geoghan2016-05-08T10:12:56Z<p>Thomasmann: /* The Murder of John Geoghan */ clean up long quote</p>
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<div>'''John J. Geoghan'''; (June 4, 1935 to August 23, 2003) was an American Roman Catholic priest who had sex with boys while he was assigned to parishes in the Boston, Massachusetts. He was reassigned several times to parish posts involving children, including after attempted treatment for [[pedophilia]]. Geoghan was finally convicted of sexual abuse, laicized, and sentenced in 2002 to nine to ten years in Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, a maximum-security prison. Less than a year later, he was murdered there by Joseph Druce, an inmate who is serving a life sentence.<br />
<br />
== The Murder of John Geoghan ==<br />
<br />
On August 23, 2003, while in protective custody at the maximum-security prison, Geoghan was strangled and stomped to death in his cell by inmate Joseph Druce. The latter was a self-described white supremacist serving a sentence of life without possibility of parole for killing a man who allegedly made sexual advances toward him. He was said to have planned the murder of Geoghan for more than a month, considering him a "prize." When John Geoghan's cell door locked, Druce jimmied it shut by jamming a paperback book into its upper track and a pair of nail clippers into the lower track. The ability to jam cell doors at SBCC from the inside is the result of a design defect, and has been known to staff and prisoners alike since shortly after the prison opened. He then took a sock he had inside his shirt, wrapped it around Geoghan's neck, and strangled him until he lost consciousness. Then, while Geoghan was on the floor, Druce repeatedly jumped onto him from the bed, breaking all of his ribs and crushing the old man's chest.<ref>https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2004/nov/15/a-death-in-custody-massachusetts-doc-wracked-by-scandal</ref><br />
<br />
The press raised questions about prison officials' judgment in placing these two men in the same unit for protective custody. In addition, they had been warned by an inmate that Druce had something planned against Geoghan.<ref name="nytimes">Butterfield, Fox, [http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/26/national/26PRIE.html "Long Planning Is Cited in Death Of Former Priest"], ''The New York Times'', August 26, 2003</ref> <br />
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{{quote| '''Certain guards''' in the MCI-Concord protective custody unit (in Geoghan's case, two), who hated him because of the nature of his crime, because he was an educated man, because he had lived a privileged life as a priest, and because he came into prison with naive expectations of being afforded basic human dignity, '''took it upon themselves to break him. When they did not succeed in breaking him they decided to ensure that he would be transferred to maximum security where he would room with the wolves.''' This was accomplished by loading the quiet old man, who spent most of his time praying, reading, or playing cards, with false, serious disciplinary reports, and then using that bogus "disciplinary history" to manipulate his classification to maximum security. The process in Geoghan's case, however, was so blatant that substantial arm-twisting was necessary among prison officials before the old man was sent to his death.<br />
<br />
The administrative panel concluded that '''Geoghan had been physically assaulted by a guard at MCI-Concord on at least one occasion following a visit from a priest, that he had "come into contact" with another guard at MCI-Concord following a visit from his sister, and that someone, probably another prisoner, had placed feces in Geoghan's cell at MCI-Concord on a third occasion.'''... The administrative panel found that the investigations of Geoghan's complaints against guards who harassed or assaulted him were "incomplete at best" and that Geoghan had received additional disciplinary reports for "lying" as a result of filing his complaints. The panel found that John Geoghan, a quiet old man, received a total of fifteen disciplinary reports during his incarceration in the protective custody unit at MCI-Concord, that this represented more disciplinary reports than were received by any other man in the unit during the time period that he was confined there, that eight of those reports were written by the same guard, one Cosmo Bisazza, and that Geoghan was the recipient of forty percent of all the disciplinary reports written by Bisazza against prisoners in the protective custody unit during the months in question.<br />
<br />
The panel found that Sergeant Sheridan, one of the disciplinary hearing officers for MCI-Concord, had spoken to Bisazza about the disciplinary reports he had written against Geoghan. '''Sheridan told the investigators that he thought that the disciplinary reports written against Geoghan were either minor in nature, bad reports, or just "flat crap." He described Geoghan as a little old man who didn't bother anyone.''' The panel found that disciplinary reports written against Geoghan at MCI-Concord were "seldom in compliance with post orders." <br />
<br />
On February 28, 2003, John Geoghan appealed Anderson's recommendation to send him to SBCC (The Maximum Security Prison), pointing out the trivial nature of the two disciplinary reports at issue.....Not suprisingly they denied this appeal. Geoghan was sent to SBCC on April 1.<ref>https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2004/nov/15/a-death-in-custody-massachusetts-doc-wracked-by-scandal</ref>}}<br />
<br />
Geoghan was brutally murdered because the guards at the prison hated him for being a pedophile. '''The prison officials made it happen on purpose.''' They also leaked a youtube video of the guards trying to pry open the door after the murder. <ref>http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/YouTube-video-shows-priest-s-killer-Scene-2582753.php</ref> The video is [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjkHXDtoXAo still available on youtube.] Prison officials wanted to make sure everyone got to see the gruesome details. But that wasn't enough for them. In 2015, photos of Geoghan's mutilated corpse showed up online. Of course, "The Department of Corrections said it is investigating the photos." <ref>http://www.whdh.com/story/29737640/investigation-underway-into-photos-of-pedophile-priests-body</ref> "Who? Us? We have no idea?"<br />
<br />
This story shines light on how far away we are from a civilized society. When it comes to pedosteria, society breaks down and everyone's a cave man. If you're in prison for pedophilia in the USA the guards might have you executed. This story proves that fact. It's probably just a matter of time before the same thing happens to [[Jerry Sandusky]].<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<br />
{{reflist}}</div>Thomasmannhttps://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=John_Geoghan&diff=35767John Geoghan2016-05-08T10:04:45Z<p>Thomasmann: /* The Murder of John Geoghan */</p>
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<div>'''John J. Geoghan'''; (June 4, 1935 to August 23, 2003) was an American Roman Catholic priest who had sex with boys while he was assigned to parishes in the Boston, Massachusetts. He was reassigned several times to parish posts involving children, including after attempted treatment for [[pedophilia]]. Geoghan was finally convicted of sexual abuse, laicized, and sentenced in 2002 to nine to ten years in Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, a maximum-security prison. Less than a year later, he was murdered there by Joseph Druce, an inmate who is serving a life sentence.<br />
<br />
== The Murder of John Geoghan ==<br />
<br />
On August 23, 2003, while in protective custody at the maximum-security prison, Geoghan was strangled and stomped to death in his cell by inmate Joseph Druce. The latter was a self-described white supremacist serving a sentence of life without possibility of parole for killing a man who allegedly made sexual advances toward him. He was said to have planned the murder of Geoghan for more than a month, considering him a "prize." When John Geoghan's cell door locked, Druce jimmied it shut by jamming a paperback book into its upper track and a pair of nail clippers into the lower track. The ability to jam cell doors at SBCC from the inside is the result of a design defect, and has been known to staff and prisoners alike since shortly after the prison opened. He then took a sock he had inside his shirt, wrapped it around Geoghan's neck, and strangled him until he lost consciousness. Then, while Geoghan was on the floor, Druce repeatedly jumped onto him from the bed, breaking all of his ribs and crushing the old man's chest.<ref>https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2004/nov/15/a-death-in-custody-massachusetts-doc-wracked-by-scandal</ref><br />
<br />
The press raised questions about prison officials' judgment in placing these two men in the same unit for protective custody. In addition, they had been warned by an inmate that Druce had something planned against Geoghan.<ref name="nytimes">Butterfield, Fox, [http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/26/national/26PRIE.html "Long Planning Is Cited in Death Of Former Priest"], ''The New York Times'', August 26, 2003</ref> <br />
<br />
<br />
{{quote| '''Certain guards''' in the MCI-Concord protective custody unit (in Geoghan's case, two), who hated him because of the nature of his crime, because he was an educated man, because he had lived a privileged life as a priest, and because he came into prison with naive expectations of being afforded basic human dignity, '''took it upon themselves to break him. When they did not succeed in breaking him they decided to ensure that he would be transferred to maximum security where he would room with the wolves.''' This was accomplished by loading the quiet old man, who spent most of his time praying, reading, or playing cards, with false, serious disciplinary reports, and then using that bogus "disciplinary history" to manipulate his classification to maximum security. The process in Geoghan's case, however, was so blatant that substantial arm-twisting was necessary among prison officials before the old man was sent to his death.<br />
<br />
The administrative panel concluded that Geoghan had been physically assaulted by a guard at MCI-Concord on at least one occasion following a visit from a priest, that he had "come into contact" with another guard at MCI-Concord following a visit from his sister, and that someone, probably another prisoner, had placed feces in Geoghan's cell at MCI-Concord on a third occasion. It also found that the system for investigation of prisoner complaints against staff within the Department of Correction is "sporadic and cavalier," with no mechanism for central office review of determinations made at the individual prison level. It found that there is no way for superintendents, much less the central DOC headquarters, to share such misconduct reports or their outcomes as prisoners or staff members are transferred from prison to prison. The administrative panel found that the investigations of Geoghan's complaints against guards who harassed or assaulted him were "incomplete at best" and that Geoghan had received additional disciplinary reports for "lying" as a result of filing his complaints. The panel found that John Geoghan, a quiet old man, received a total of fifteen disciplinary reports during his incarceration in the protective custody unit at MCI-Concord, that this represented more disciplinary reports than were received by any other man in the unit during the time period that he was confined there, that eight of those reports were written by the same guard, one Cosmo Bisazza, and that Geoghan was the recipient of forty percent of all the disciplinary reports written by Bisazza against prisoners in the protective custody unit during the months in question.<br />
<br />
The panel found that Sergeant Sheridan, one of the disciplinary hearing officers for MCI-Concord, had spoken to Bisazza about the disciplinary reports he had written against Geoghan. Sheridan told the investigators that he thought that the disciplinary reports written against Geoghan were either minor in nature, bad reports, or just "flat crap." He described Geoghan as a little old man who didn't bother anyone. The panel found that disciplinary reports written against Geoghan at MCI-Concord were "seldom in compliance with post orders." When the disciplinary hearing officers at MCI-Concord learned that Geoghan was to be transferred to SBCC, a different hearing officer, Steve Lacrosse, called the prison's Director of Classification and told her not to "blame the d-board, you do it on your own, but don't blame it on Inmate Geoghan being a discipline problem."<br />
<br />
The panel also found that the classification process employed on John Geoghan was "marked by highly irregular behavior" on the part of three senior officials at MCI-Concord. On February 20, 2003, Geoghan had received a unanimous vote of the classification board to remain at MCI-Concord. On each of the following two days he was issued a trivial d-report. The first was for an out-of-order hot pot and the second report was for "insolence," issued when he complained about the first report. He pled guilty to each, each was reduced to a minor infraction and he was sanctioned with a month's loss of canteen. "Between February 20 and 24, 2003, several two-party conversations about Inmate Geoghan's status occurred between three senior officials at MCI Concord.... Superintendent Grant inquired of Director of Classification DiNardo if she had acted on the Classification Board's recommendation per her role as the Superintendent's Designee in reviewing the Classification Board's recommendation [that Geoghan remain where he was]. Superintendent Grant expressed to Deputy Superintendent for Classification Anderson, his desire to transfer Inmate Geoghan to the SHU at SBCC. Director of Classification DiNardo told Deputy Superintendent for Classification Anderson, that she would not reverse the recommendation of the Classification Board and that Deputy Superintendent Anderson would have to reverse it if it were to be reversed, to which Deputy Superintendent Anderson replied that he had already assumed the role of "Superintendent's Designee" and reversed the Board's recommendation." (Emphasis added.) "In reversing the Classification Board's recommendation," says the report, "Deputy Superintendent Anderson did not seek out or consult with any members of the Classification Board."<br />
<br />
On February 28, 2003, John Geoghan appealed Anderson's recommendation to send him to SBCC, pointing out the trivial nature of the two disciplinary reports at issue. The appeal was routed to the Superintendent's Designee: Deputy Superintendent Anderson. Not surprisingly, Anderson denied this appeal of his own decision. Geoghan was sent to SBCC on April 1.<ref>https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2004/nov/15/a-death-in-custody-massachusetts-doc-wracked-by-scandal</ref>}}<br />
<br />
Geoghan was brutally murdered because the guards at the prison hated him for being a pedophile. '''The prison officials made it happen on purpose.''' They also leaked a youtube video of the guards trying to pry open the door after the murder. <ref>http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/YouTube-video-shows-priest-s-killer-Scene-2582753.php</ref> The video is [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjkHXDtoXAo still available on youtube.] Prison officials wanted to make sure everyone got to see the gruesome details. But that wasn't enough for them. In 2015, photos of Geoghan's mutilated corpse showed up online. Of course, "The Department of Corrections said it is investigating the photos." <ref>http://www.whdh.com/story/29737640/investigation-underway-into-photos-of-pedophile-priests-body</ref> "Who? Us? We have no idea?"<br />
<br />
This story shines light on how far away we are from a civilized society. When it comes to pedosteria, society breaks down and everyone's a cave man. If you're in prison for pedophilia in the USA the guards might have you executed. This story proves that fact. It's probably just a matter of time before the same thing happens to [[Jerry Sandusky]].<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<br />
{{reflist}}</div>Thomasmannhttps://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=John_Geoghan&diff=35766John Geoghan2016-05-08T10:02:50Z<p>Thomasmann: /* The Murder of John Geoghan */</p>
<hr />
<div>'''John J. Geoghan'''; (June 4, 1935 to August 23, 2003) was an American Roman Catholic priest who had sex with boys while he was assigned to parishes in the Boston, Massachusetts. He was reassigned several times to parish posts involving children, including after attempted treatment for [[pedophilia]]. Geoghan was finally convicted of sexual abuse, laicized, and sentenced in 2002 to nine to ten years in Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, a maximum-security prison. Less than a year later, he was murdered there by Joseph Druce, an inmate who is serving a life sentence.<br />
<br />
== The Murder of John Geoghan ==<br />
<br />
On August 23, 2003, while in protective custody at the maximum-security prison, Geoghan was strangled and stomped to death in his cell by inmate Joseph Druce. The latter was a self-described white supremacist serving a sentence of life without possibility of parole for killing a man who allegedly made sexual advances toward him. He was said to have planned the murder of Geoghan for more than a month, considering him a "prize." When John Geoghan's cell door locked, Druce jimmied it shut by jamming a paperback book into its upper track and a pair of nail clippers into the lower track. The ability to jam cell doors at SBCC from the inside is the result of a design defect, and has been known to staff and prisoners alike since shortly after the prison opened. He then took a sock he had inside his shirt, wrapped it around Geoghan's neck, and strangled him until he lost consciousness. Then, while Geoghan was on the floor, Druce repeatedly jumped onto him from the bed, breaking all of his ribs and crushing the old man's chest.<ref>https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2004/nov/15/a-death-in-custody-massachusetts-doc-wracked-by-scandal</ref><br />
<br />
The press raised questions about prison officials' judgment in placing these two men in the same unit for protective custody. In addition, they had been warned by an inmate that Druce had something planned against Geoghan.<ref name="nytimes">Butterfield, Fox, [http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/26/national/26PRIE.html "Long Planning Is Cited in Death Of Former Priest"], ''The New York Times'', August 26, 2003</ref> <br />
<br />
<br />
{{quote| Certain guards in the MCI-Concord protective custody unit (in Geoghan's case, two), who hated him because of the nature of his crime, because he was an educated man, because he had lived a privileged life as a priest, and because he came into prison with naive expectations of being afforded basic human dignity, '''took it upon themselves to break him. When they did not succeed in breaking him they decided to ensure that he would be transferred to maximum security where he would room with the wolves.''' This was accomplished by loading the quiet old man, who spent most of his time praying, reading, or playing cards, with false, serious disciplinary reports, and then using that bogus "disciplinary history" to manipulate his classification to maximum security. The process in Geoghan's case, however, was so blatant that substantial arm-twisting was necessary among prison officials before the old man was sent to his death.<br />
<br />
The administrative panel concluded that Geoghan had been physically assaulted by a guard at MCI-Concord on at least one occasion following a visit from a priest, that he had "come into contact" with another guard at MCI-Concord following a visit from his sister, and that someone, probably another prisoner, had placed feces in Geoghan's cell at MCI-Concord on a third occasion. It also found that the system for investigation of prisoner complaints against staff within the Department of Correction is "sporadic and cavalier," with no mechanism for central office review of determinations made at the individual prison level. It found that there is no way for superintendents, much less the central DOC headquarters, to share such misconduct reports or their outcomes as prisoners or staff members are transferred from prison to prison. The administrative panel found that the investigations of Geoghan's complaints against guards who harassed or assaulted him were "incomplete at best" and that Geoghan had received additional disciplinary reports for "lying" as a result of filing his complaints. The panel found that John Geoghan, a quiet old man, received a total of fifteen disciplinary reports during his incarceration in the protective custody unit at MCI-Concord, that this represented more disciplinary reports than were received by any other man in the unit during the time period that he was confined there, that eight of those reports were written by the same guard, one Cosmo Bisazza, and that Geoghan was the recipient of forty percent of all the disciplinary reports written by Bisazza against prisoners in the protective custody unit during the months in question.<br />
<br />
The panel found that Sergeant Sheridan, one of the disciplinary hearing officers for MCI-Concord, had spoken to Bisazza about the disciplinary reports he had written against Geoghan. Sheridan told the investigators that he thought that the disciplinary reports written against Geoghan were either minor in nature, bad reports, or just "flat crap." He described Geoghan as a little old man who didn't bother anyone. The panel found that disciplinary reports written against Geoghan at MCI-Concord were "seldom in compliance with post orders." When the disciplinary hearing officers at MCI-Concord learned that Geoghan was to be transferred to SBCC, a different hearing officer, Steve Lacrosse, called the prison's Director of Classification and told her not to "blame the d-board, you do it on your own, but don't blame it on Inmate Geoghan being a discipline problem."<br />
<br />
The panel also found that the classification process employed on John Geoghan was "marked by highly irregular behavior" on the part of three senior officials at MCI-Concord. On February 20, 2003, Geoghan had received a unanimous vote of the classification board to remain at MCI-Concord. On each of the following two days he was issued a trivial d-report. The first was for an out-of-order hot pot and the second report was for "insolence," issued when he complained about the first report. He pled guilty to each, each was reduced to a minor infraction and he was sanctioned with a month's loss of canteen. "Between February 20 and 24, 2003, several two-party conversations about Inmate Geoghan's status occurred between three senior officials at MCI Concord.... Superintendent Grant inquired of Director of Classification DiNardo if she had acted on the Classification Board's recommendation per her role as the Superintendent's Designee in reviewing the Classification Board's recommendation [that Geoghan remain where he was]. Superintendent Grant expressed to Deputy Superintendent for Classification Anderson, his desire to transfer Inmate Geoghan to the SHU at SBCC. Director of Classification DiNardo told Deputy Superintendent for Classification Anderson, that she would not reverse the recommendation of the Classification Board and that Deputy Superintendent Anderson would have to reverse it if it were to be reversed, to which Deputy Superintendent Anderson replied that he had already assumed the role of "Superintendent's Designee" and reversed the Board's recommendation." (Emphasis added.) "In reversing the Classification Board's recommendation," says the report, "Deputy Superintendent Anderson did not seek out or consult with any members of the Classification Board."<br />
<br />
On February 28, 2003, John Geoghan appealed Anderson's recommendation to send him to SBCC, pointing out the trivial nature of the two disciplinary reports at issue. The appeal was routed to the Superintendent's Designee: Deputy Superintendent Anderson. Not surprisingly, Anderson denied this appeal of his own decision. Geoghan was sent to SBCC on April 1.<ref>https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2004/nov/15/a-death-in-custody-massachusetts-doc-wracked-by-scandal</ref>}}<br />
<br />
Geoghan was brutally murdered because the guards at the prison hated him for being a pedophile. '''The prison officials made it happen on purpose.''' They also leaked a youtube video of the guards trying to pry open the door after the murder. <ref>http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/YouTube-video-shows-priest-s-killer-Scene-2582753.php</ref> The video is [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjkHXDtoXAo still available on youtube.] Prison officials wanted to make sure everyone got to see the gruesome details. But that wasn't enough for them. In 2015, photos of Geoghan's mutilated corpse showed up online. Of course, "The Department of Corrections said it is investigating the photos." <ref>http://www.whdh.com/story/29737640/investigation-underway-into-photos-of-pedophile-priests-body</ref> "Who? Us? We have no idea?"<br />
<br />
This story shines light on how far away we are from a civilized society. When it comes to pedosteria, society breaks down and everyone's a cave man. If you're in prison for pedophilia in the USA the guards might have you executed. This story proves that fact. It's probably just a matter of time before the same thing happens to [[Jerry Sandusky]].<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<br />
{{reflist}}</div>Thomasmannhttps://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=John_Geoghan&diff=35765John Geoghan2016-05-08T09:59:11Z<p>Thomasmann: /* The Murder of John Geoghan */</p>
<hr />
<div>'''John J. Geoghan'''; (June 4, 1935 to August 23, 2003) was an American Roman Catholic priest who had sex with boys while he was assigned to parishes in the Boston, Massachusetts. He was reassigned several times to parish posts involving children, including after attempted treatment for [[pedophilia]]. Geoghan was finally convicted of sexual abuse, laicized, and sentenced in 2002 to nine to ten years in Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, a maximum-security prison. Less than a year later, he was murdered there by Joseph Druce, an inmate who is serving a life sentence.<br />
<br />
== The Murder of John Geoghan ==<br />
<br />
On August 23, 2003, while in protective custody at the maximum-security prison, Geoghan was strangled and stomped to death in his cell by inmate Joseph Druce. The latter was a self-described white supremacist serving a sentence of life without possibility of parole for killing a man who allegedly made sexual advances toward him. He was said to have planned the murder of Geoghan for more than a month, considering him a "prize." When John Geoghan's cell door locked, Druce jimmied it shut by jamming a paperback book into its upper track and a pair of nail clippers into the lower track. The ability to jam cell doors at SBCC from the inside is the result of a design defect, and has been known to staff and prisoners alike since shortly after the prison opened. He then took a sock he had inside his shirt, wrapped it around Geoghan's neck, and strangled him until he lost consciousness. Then, while Geoghan was on the floor, Druce repeatedly jumped onto him from the bed, breaking all of his ribs and crushing the old man's chest.<ref>https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2004/nov/15/a-death-in-custody-massachusetts-doc-wracked-by-scandal</ref><br />
<br />
The press raised questions about prison officials' judgment in placing these two men in the same unit for protective custody. In addition, they had been warned by an inmate that Druce had something planned against Geoghan.<ref name="nytimes">Butterfield, Fox, [http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/26/national/26PRIE.html "Long Planning Is Cited in Death Of Former Priest"], ''The New York Times'', August 26, 2003</ref> <br />
<br />
<br />
{{quote| Certain guards in the MCI-Concord protective custody unit (in Geoghan's case, two), who hated him because of the nature of his crime, because he was an educated man, because he had lived a privileged life as a priest, and because he came into prison with naive expectations of being afforded basic human dignity, '''took it upon themselves to break him. When they did not succeed in breaking him they decided to ensure that he would be transferred to maximum security where he would room with the wolves.''' This was accomplished by loading the quiet old man, who spent most of his time praying, reading, or playing cards, with false, serious disciplinary reports, and then using that bogus "disciplinary history" to manipulate his classification to maximum security. The process in Geoghan's case, however, was so blatant that substantial arm-twisting was necessary among prison officials before the old man was sent to his death.<br />
<br />
The administrative panel concluded that Geoghan had been physically assaulted by a guard at MCI-Concord on at least one occasion following a visit from a priest, that he had "come into contact" with another guard at MCI-Concord following a visit from his sister, and that someone, probably another prisoner, had placed feces in Geoghan's cell at MCI-Concord on a third occasion. It also found that the system for investigation of prisoner complaints against staff within the Department of Correction is "sporadic and cavalier," with no mechanism for central office review of determinations made at the individual prison level. It found that there is no way for superintendents, much less the central DOC headquarters, to share such misconduct reports or their outcomes as prisoners or staff members are transferred from prison to prison. The administrative panel found that the investigations of Geoghan's complaints against guards who harassed or assaulted him were "incomplete at best" and that Geoghan had received additional disciplinary reports for "lying" as a result of filing his complaints. The panel found that John Geoghan, a quiet old man, received a total of fifteen disciplinary reports during his incarceration in the protective custody unit at MCI-Concord, that this represented more disciplinary reports than were received by any other man in the unit during the time period that he was confined there, that eight of those reports were written by the same guard, one Cosmo Bisazza, and that Geoghan was the recipient of forty percent of all the disciplinary reports written by Bisazza against prisoners in the protective custody unit during the months in question.<br />
<br />
The panel found that Sergeant Sheridan, one of the disciplinary hearing officers for MCI-Concord, had spoken to Bisazza about the disciplinary reports he had written against Geoghan. Sheridan told the investigators that he thought that the disciplinary reports written against Geoghan were either minor in nature, bad reports, or just "flat crap." He described Geoghan as a little old man who didn't bother anyone. The panel found that disciplinary reports written against Geoghan at MCI-Concord were "seldom in compliance with post orders." When the disciplinary hearing officers at MCI-Concord learned that Geoghan was to be transferred to SBCC, a different hearing officer, Steve Lacrosse, called the prison's Director of Classification and told her not to "blame the d-board, you do it on your own, but don't blame it on Inmate Geoghan being a discipline problem."<br />
<br />
The panel also found that the classification process employed on John Geoghan was "marked by highly irregular behavior" on the part of three senior officials at MCI-Concord. On February 20, 2003, Geoghan had received a unanimous vote of the classification board to remain at MCI-Concord. On each of the following two days he was issued a trivial d-report. The first was for an out-of-order hot pot and the second report was for "insolence," issued when he complained about the first report. He pled guilty to each, each was reduced to a minor infraction and he was sanctioned with a month's loss of canteen. "Between February 20 and 24, 2003, several two-party conversations about Inmate Geoghan's status occurred between three senior officials at MCI Concord.... Superintendent Grant inquired of Director of Classification DiNardo if she had acted on the Classification Board's recommendation per her role as the Superintendent's Designee in reviewing the Classification Board's recommendation [that Geoghan remain where he was]. Superintendent Grant expressed to Deputy Superintendent for Classification Anderson, his desire to transfer Inmate Geoghan to the SHU at SBCC. Director of Classification DiNardo told Deputy Superintendent for Classification Anderson, that she would not reverse the recommendation of the Classification Board and that Deputy Superintendent Anderson would have to reverse it if it were to be reversed, to which Deputy Superintendent Anderson replied that he had already assumed the role of "Superintendent's Designee" and reversed the Board's recommendation." (Emphasis added.) "In reversing the Classification Board's recommendation," says the report, "Deputy Superintendent Anderson did not seek out or consult with any members of the Classification Board."<br />
<br />
On February 28, 2003, John Geoghan appealed Anderson's recommendation to send him to SBCC, pointing out the trivial nature of the two disciplinary reports at issue. The appeal was routed to the Superintendent's Designee: Deputy Superintendent Anderson. Not surprisingly, Anderson denied this appeal of his own decision. Geoghan was sent to SBCC on April 1.<ref>https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2004/nov/15/a-death-in-custody-massachusetts-doc-wracked-by-scandal</ref>}}<br />
<br />
Geoghan was brutally murdered because the guards at the prison hated him because he was a pedophile. '''The prison officials made it happen on purpose.''' They also leaked a youtube video of the guards trying to pry open the door after the murder. <ref>http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/YouTube-video-shows-priest-s-killer-Scene-2582753.php</ref> The video is [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjkHXDtoXAo still available on youtube.] Prison officials wanted to make sure everyone got to see the gruesome details. But that wasn't enough for them. In 2015, photos of Geoghan's mutilated corpse showed up online. Of course, "The Department of Corrections said it is investigating the photos." <ref>http://www.whdh.com/story/29737640/investigation-underway-into-photos-of-pedophile-priests-body</ref> "Who? Us? We have no idea?"<br />
<br />
This story shines light on how far away we are from a civilized society when it comes to pedosteria. If you're in prison for pedophilia in the USA the guards might have you executed. It's probably just a matter of time before the same thing happens to [[Jerry Sandusky]].<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<br />
{{reflist}}</div>Thomasmannhttps://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=John_Geoghan&diff=35764John Geoghan2016-05-08T09:57:51Z<p>Thomasmann: </p>
<hr />
<div>'''John J. Geoghan'''; (June 4, 1935 to August 23, 2003) was an American Roman Catholic priest who had sex with boys while he was assigned to parishes in the Boston, Massachusetts. He was reassigned several times to parish posts involving children, including after attempted treatment for [[pedophilia]]. Geoghan was finally convicted of sexual abuse, laicized, and sentenced in 2002 to nine to ten years in Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, a maximum-security prison. Less than a year later, he was murdered there by Joseph Druce, an inmate who is serving a life sentence.<br />
<br />
== The Murder of John Geoghan ==<br />
<br />
On August 23, 2003, while in protective custody at the maximum-security prison, Geoghan was strangled and stomped to death in his cell by inmate Joseph Druce. The latter was a self-described white supremacist serving a sentence of life without possibility of parole for killing a man who allegedly made sexual advances toward him. He was said to have planned the murder of Geoghan for more than a month, considering him a "prize." When John Geoghan's cell door locked, Druce jimmied it shut by jamming a paperback book into its upper track and a pair of nail clippers into the lower track. The ability to jam cell doors at SBCC from the inside is the result of a design defect, and has been known to staff and prisoners alike since shortly after the prison opened. He then took a sock he had inside his shirt, wrapped it around Geoghan's neck, and strangled him until he lost consciousness. Then, while Geoghan was on the floor, Druce repeatedly jumped onto him from the bed, breaking all of his ribs and crushing the old man's chest.<ref>https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2004/nov/15/a-death-in-custody-massachusetts-doc-wracked-by-scandal</ref><br />
<br />
The press raised questions about prison officials' judgment in placing these two men in the same unit for protective custody. In addition, they had been warned by an inmate that Druce had something planned against Geoghan.<ref name="nytimes">Butterfield, Fox, [http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/26/national/26PRIE.html "Long Planning Is Cited in Death Of Former Priest"], ''The New York Times'', August 26, 2003</ref> <br />
<br />
<br />
{{quote| Certain guards in the MCI-Concord protective custody unit (in Geoghan's case, two), who hated him because of the nature of his crime, because he was an educated man, because he had lived a privileged life as a priest, and because he came into prison with naive expectations of being afforded basic human dignity, '''took it upon themselves to break him. When they did not succeed in breaking him they decided to ensure that he would be transferred to maximum security where he would room with the wolves.''' This was accomplished by loading the quiet old man, who spent most of his time praying, reading, or playing cards, with false, serious disciplinary reports, and then using that bogus "disciplinary history" to manipulate his classification to maximum security. The process in Geoghan's case, however, was so blatant that substantial arm-twisting was necessary among prison officials before the old man was sent to his death.<br />
<br />
The administrative panel concluded that Geoghan had been physically assaulted by a guard at MCI-Concord on at least one occasion following a visit from a priest, that he had "come into contact" with another guard at MCI-Concord following a visit from his sister, and that someone, probably another prisoner, had placed feces in Geoghan's cell at MCI-Concord on a third occasion. It also found that the system for investigation of prisoner complaints against staff within the Department of Correction is "sporadic and cavalier," with no mechanism for central office review of determinations made at the individual prison level. It found that there is no way for superintendents, much less the central DOC headquarters, to share such misconduct reports or their outcomes as prisoners or staff members are transferred from prison to prison. The administrative panel found that the investigations of Geoghan's complaints against guards who harassed or assaulted him were "incomplete at best" and that Geoghan had received additional disciplinary reports for "lying" as a result of filing his complaints. The panel found that John Geoghan, a quiet old man, received a total of fifteen disciplinary reports during his incarceration in the protective custody unit at MCI-Concord, that this represented more disciplinary reports than were received by any other man in the unit during the time period that he was confined there, that eight of those reports were written by the same guard, one Cosmo Bisazza, and that Geoghan was the recipient of forty percent of all the disciplinary reports written by Bisazza against prisoners in the protective custody unit during the months in question.<br />
<br />
The panel found that Sergeant Sheridan, one of the disciplinary hearing officers for MCI-Concord, had spoken to Bisazza about the disciplinary reports he had written against Geoghan. Sheridan told the investigators that he thought that the disciplinary reports written against Geoghan were either minor in nature, bad reports, or just "flat crap." He described Geoghan as a little old man who didn't bother anyone. The panel found that disciplinary reports written against Geoghan at MCI-Concord were "seldom in compliance with post orders." When the disciplinary hearing officers at MCI-Concord learned that Geoghan was to be transferred to SBCC, a different hearing officer, Steve Lacrosse, called the prison's Director of Classification and told her not to "blame the d-board, you do it on your own, but don't blame it on Inmate Geoghan being a discipline problem."<br />
<br />
The panel also found that the classification process employed on John Geoghan was "marked by highly irregular behavior" on the part of three senior officials at MCI-Concord. On February 20, 2003, Geoghan had received a unanimous vote of the classification board to remain at MCI-Concord. On each of the following two days he was issued a trivial d-report. The first was for an out-of-order hot pot and the second report was for "insolence," issued when he complained about the first report. He pled guilty to each, each was reduced to a minor infraction and he was sanctioned with a month's loss of canteen. "Between February 20 and 24, 2003, several two-party conversations about Inmate Geoghan's status occurred between three senior officials at MCI Concord.... Superintendent Grant inquired of Director of Classification DiNardo if she had acted on the Classification Board's recommendation per her role as the Superintendent's Designee in reviewing the Classification Board's recommendation [that Geoghan remain where he was]. Superintendent Grant expressed to Deputy Superintendent for Classification Anderson, his desire to transfer Inmate Geoghan to the SHU at SBCC. Director of Classification DiNardo told Deputy Superintendent for Classification Anderson, that she would not reverse the recommendation of the Classification Board and that Deputy Superintendent Anderson would have to reverse it if it were to be reversed, to which Deputy Superintendent Anderson replied that he had already assumed the role of "Superintendent's Designee" and reversed the Board's recommendation." (Emphasis added.) "In reversing the Classification Board's recommendation," says the report, "Deputy Superintendent Anderson did not seek out or consult with any members of the Classification Board."<br />
<br />
On February 28, 2003, John Geoghan appealed Anderson's recommendation to send him to SBCC, pointing out the trivial nature of the two disciplinary reports at issue. The appeal was routed to the Superintendent's Designee: Deputy Superintendent Anderson. Not surprisingly, Anderson denied this appeal of his own decision. Geoghan was sent to SBCC on April 1.<ref>https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2004/nov/15/a-death-in-custody-massachusetts-doc-wracked-by-scandal</ref>}}<br />
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Geoghan was brutally murdered because the guards at the prison hated him because he was a pedophile. '''The prison officials made it happen on purpose.''' They also leaked a youtube video of the guards trying to pry open the door after the murder. <ref>http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/YouTube-video-shows-priest-s-killer-Scene-2582753.php</ref> The video is [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjkHXDtoXAo still available on youtube.] Prison officials wanted to make sure everyone got to see the gruesome details. But that wasn't enough for them. In 2015, photos of Geoghan's mutilated corpse showed up online. Of course, "The Department of Corrections said it is investigating the photos." <ref>http://www.whdh.com/story/29737640/investigation-underway-into-photos-of-pedophile-priests-body</ref><br />
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This story shines light on how far away we are from a civilized society when it comes to pedosteria. If you're in prison for pedophilia in the USA the guards might have you executed. It's probably just a matter of time before the same thing happens to [[Jerry Sandusky]].<br />
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== References ==<br />
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{{reflist}}</div>Thomasmannhttps://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=John_Geoghan&diff=35763John Geoghan2016-05-08T09:56:09Z<p>Thomasmann: created page John Geoghan</p>
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<div>'''John J. Geoghan'''; (June 4, 1935 to August 23, 2003) was an American Roman Catholic priest who had sex with boys while he was assigned to parishes in the Boston, Massachusetts. He was reassigned several times to parish posts involving children, including after attempted treatment for [[pedophilia]]. Geoghan was finally convicted of sexual abuse, laicized, and sentenced in 2002 to nine to ten years in Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, a maximum-security prison. Less than a year later, he was murdered there by Joseph Druce, an inmate who is serving a life sentence.<br />
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== The Murder of John Geoghan ==<br />
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On August 23, 2003, while in protective custody at the maximum-security prison, Geoghan was strangled and stomped to death in his cell by inmate Joseph Druce. The latter was a self-described white supremacist serving a sentence of life without possibility of parole for killing a man who allegedly made sexual advances toward him. He was said to have planned the murder of Geoghan for more than a month, considering him a "prize." When John Geoghan's cell door locked, Druce jimmied it shut by jamming a paperback book into its upper track and a pair of nail clippers into the lower track. The ability to jam cell doors at SBCC from the inside is the result of a design defect, and has been known to staff and prisoners alike since shortly after the prison opened. He then took a sock he had inside his shirt, wrapped it around Geoghan's neck, and strangled him until he lost consciousness. Then, while Geoghan was on the floor, Druce repeatedly jumped onto him from the bed, breaking all of his ribs and crushing the old man's chest.<ref>https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2004/nov/15/a-death-in-custody-massachusetts-doc-wracked-by-scandal</ref><br />
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The press raised questions about prison officials' judgment in placing these two men in the same unit for protective custody. In addition, they had been warned by an inmate that Druce had something planned against Geoghan.<ref name="nytimes">Butterfield, Fox, [http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/26/national/26PRIE.html "Long Planning Is Cited in Death Of Former Priest"], ''The New York Times'', August 26, 2003</ref> <br />
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{{quote| Certain guards in the MCI-Concord protective custody unit (in Geoghan's case, two), who hated him because of the nature of his crime, because he was an educated man, because he had lived a privileged life as a priest, and because he came into prison with naive expectations of being afforded basic human dignity, '''took it upon themselves to break him. When they did not succeed in breaking him they decided to ensure that he would be transferred to maximum security where he would room with the wolves.''' This was accomplished by loading the quiet old man, who spent most of his time praying, reading, or playing cards, with false, serious disciplinary reports, and then using that bogus "disciplinary history" to manipulate his classification to maximum security. The process in Geoghan's case, however, was so blatant that substantial arm-twisting was necessary among prison officials before the old man was sent to his death.<br />
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The administrative panel concluded that Geoghan had been physically assaulted by a guard at MCI-Concord on at least one occasion following a visit from a priest, that he had "come into contact" with another guard at MCI-Concord following a visit from his sister, and that someone, probably another prisoner, had placed feces in Geoghan's cell at MCI-Concord on a third occasion. It also found that the system for investigation of prisoner complaints against staff within the Department of Correction is "sporadic and cavalier," with no mechanism for central office review of determinations made at the individual prison level. It found that there is no way for superintendents, much less the central DOC headquarters, to share such misconduct reports or their outcomes as prisoners or staff members are transferred from prison to prison. The administrative panel found that the investigations of Geoghan's complaints against guards who harassed or assaulted him were "incomplete at best" and that Geoghan had received additional disciplinary reports for "lying" as a result of filing his complaints. The panel found that John Geoghan, a quiet old man, received a total of fifteen disciplinary reports during his incarceration in the protective custody unit at MCI-Concord, that this represented more disciplinary reports than were received by any other man in the unit during the time period that he was confined there, that eight of those reports were written by the same guard, one Cosmo Bisazza, and that Geoghan was the recipient of forty percent of all the disciplinary reports written by Bisazza against prisoners in the protective custody unit during the months in question.<br />
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The panel found that Sergeant Sheridan, one of the disciplinary hearing officers for MCI-Concord, had spoken to Bisazza about the disciplinary reports he had written against Geoghan. Sheridan told the investigators that he thought that the disciplinary reports written against Geoghan were either minor in nature, bad reports, or just "flat crap." He described Geoghan as a little old man who didn't bother anyone. The panel found that disciplinary reports written against Geoghan at MCI-Concord were "seldom in compliance with post orders." When the disciplinary hearing officers at MCI-Concord learned that Geoghan was to be transferred to SBCC, a different hearing officer, Steve Lacrosse, called the prison's Director of Classification and told her not to "blame the d-board, you do it on your own, but don't blame it on Inmate Geoghan being a discipline problem."<br />
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The panel also found that the classification process employed on John Geoghan was "marked by highly irregular behavior" on the part of three senior officials at MCI-Concord. On February 20, 2003, Geoghan had received a unanimous vote of the classification board to remain at MCI-Concord. On each of the following two days he was issued a trivial d-report. The first was for an out-of-order hot pot and the second report was for "insolence," issued when he complained about the first report. He pled guilty to each, each was reduced to a minor infraction and he was sanctioned with a month's loss of canteen. "Between February 20 and 24, 2003, several two-party conversations about Inmate Geoghan's status occurred between three senior officials at MCI Concord.... Superintendent Grant inquired of Director of Classification DiNardo if she had acted on the Classification Board's recommendation per her role as the Superintendent's Designee in reviewing the Classification Board's recommendation [that Geoghan remain where he was]. Superintendent Grant expressed to Deputy Superintendent for Classification Anderson, his desire to transfer Inmate Geoghan to the SHU at SBCC. Director of Classification DiNardo told Deputy Superintendent for Classification Anderson, that she would not reverse the recommendation of the Classification Board and that Deputy Superintendent Anderson would have to reverse it if it were to be reversed, to which Deputy Superintendent Anderson replied that he had already assumed the role of "Superintendent's Designee" and reversed the Board's recommendation." (Emphasis added.) "In reversing the Classification Board's recommendation," says the report, "Deputy Superintendent Anderson did not seek out or consult with any members of the Classification Board."<br />
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On February 28, 2003, John Geoghan appealed Anderson's recommendation to send him to SBCC, pointing out the trivial nature of the two disciplinary reports at issue. The appeal was routed to the Superintendent's Designee: Deputy Superintendent Anderson. Not surprisingly, Anderson denied this appeal of his own decision. Geoghan was sent to SBCC on April 1.<ref>https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2004/nov/15/a-death-in-custody-massachusetts-doc-wracked-by-scandal</ref>}}<br />
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Geoghan was brutally murdered because the guards at the prison hated him because he was a pedophile. '''The prison officials made it happen on purpose.''' They also leaked a youtube video of the guards trying to pry open the door after the murder. <re>http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/YouTube-video-shows-priest-s-killer-Scene-2582753.php</ref> The video is [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjkHXDtoXAo still available on youtube.] Prison officials wanted to make sure everyone got to see the gruesome details. But that wasn't enough for them. In 2015, photos of Geoghan's mutilated corpse showed up online. Of course, "The Department of Corrections said it is investigating the photos." <ref>http://www.whdh.com/story/29737640/investigation-underway-into-photos-of-pedophile-priests-body</ref><br />
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This story shines light on how far away we are from a civilized society when it comes to pedosteria. If you're in prison for pedophilia in the USA the guards might have you executed. It's probably just a matter of time before the same thing happens to [[Jerry Sandusky]].<br />
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== References ==<br />
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{{reflist}}</div>Thomasmannhttps://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=Ivan_Noel&diff=35541Ivan Noel2016-05-05T01:32:25Z<p>Thomasmann: </p>
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<div>'''Iván Noel''' is a Spanish producer and director, known for [[They Returned]] (2015), [[En tu Ausencia ]] (2008) and [[Primaria]] (2010). In their July, 2009 journal, Camilo José Cela University compared his works to that of Truffaut and Comencini.<ref>www.ucjc.edu/files/pdf/press/resumendeprensa7-8jul09.pdf</ref> [http://updrop.it/uploads/572a71ab58ef521001.png Photo of the article.] He originally started in the arts by writing and performing his own musical compositions. The transition from music to film came from his love for combining and juxtaposing the two art forms in order to make something greater than the two by themselves.<br />
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{{quote|“I was having a hard time finding the sort of films to put my own music to, so I began shooting small scenes for specific pieces of mine. From small scenes I made short movies, then eventually went on to write and produce feature films. All that just to showcase my music! There must have been a cheaper way, but it was more fun this way.”<br />
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–Iván Noel<ref>http://www.noelfilms.com/about/</ref>}}<br />
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Since those first small scenes, he has gone on to release six feature films. All of the movies, despite their different plots, characters, and other thematic elements, share the commonality of confronting moral issues without yielding to the conventions of political correctness.<br />
<br />
== Early Life ==<br />
Noel was born in 1968 in Beirut. His mother is Australian and his father is French. He speaks four languages.<ref>[http://www.semanarioprimerdia.com.ar/2012/03/con-ninos-actores-locales-se-viene.html "Con niños actores locales se viene filmando “Limbo”: una película sobre vampiros"</ref> His family was well-to-do but "nomadic resulting in him attending 8 different schools and living in 12 different countries.<ref>http://www.artsploitationfilms.com/film/children-of-the-night/</ref> <br />
{{quote|I started taking pictures when I was about 9 or 10. Then I bought an 8mm camera, and started shooting immediately. It was a very violent film about social injustice, acted by a crazed (11-year-old) beggar who had had enough. He took out his frustration by banging his head against tree trunks. It was a rather loose script and involved about 200 children from my own school (Lancing College), and was shot during playtime. It ended with the protagonist’s insane run through town and forest, ending when he (my best friend) bangs against a dead-end traffic sign."<ref>http://www.theskykid.com/exclusive-interview-director-ivan-noel-of-en-tu-ausencia/</ref>}}<br />
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He has a BA in education and composing soundtracks from the University of York<ref>http://www.lebrijadigital.com/web/component/content/article/268-uncategorised/1438-mas-de-400-personas-acudieron-a-los-dos-pases-con-que-conto-el-preestreno-de-brecha-de-ivan-noel</ref> and began his career as professor in the field of music, composing and giving concerts as a solo classical guitarist and piano player.<br />
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== Film making ==<br />
Noel entered the audiovisual world first through the production of short films. He won important prizes in Europe both for his photography (Best New Artists at the Petit Palais’ ‘Salon d’Automn’ exhibitions, Paris), but also his compositions (finalist winner of the British Songwriting competition in 2006.<ref>http://www.artsploitationfilms.com/film/children-of-the-night</ref> In 2006 he decided to sell his house to finance the filming of his first feature film, [[In Your Absence]] (2008). About that film he said he is in debt to the realism of director Ken Loach . This film was shot between Jerez and the Sierra de Cádiz. It was a low budget production made with unknown actors, but it woke the interest of critics. The film was featured in several festivals, including Vancouver, Palm Springs, Chicago, Bahamas, Athens, etc. In Vancouver the film finished fifth out of more than 200 films. Vanguard International Cinema distributed the film in North America.<ref>http://www.amazon.com/EN-AUSENCIA-GONZALO-SANCHEZ-SALAS/dp/B001TK2986</ref> Interestingly, the film has not been released or distributed in Spain.<br />
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For the next project, the director moved to a town of Seville, Lebrija. He lived there for a year to study the local people so that cast them correctly. For funding, Noel, lacking a budget, raised the money through donations. He arranged free rentals of shooting locations and the actors volunteered to work for free. It was recorded during the summer of 2008, and was released in 2009 with the title of of Gap later to be changed to [[Brecha]]. It opened to small premires in Spain, and was received with praise by it's audiences.<ref>http://www.lebrijadigital.com/web/component/content/article/268-uncategorised/1438-mas-de-400-personas-acudieron-a-los-dos-pases-con-que-conto-el-preestreno-de-brecha-de-ivan-noel</ref> <ref>http://www.europapress.es/cultura/noticia-andalucia-sevilla-teatro-juan-bernabe-abanderara-preestreno-brecha-film-rodado-lebrija-frances-ivan-noel-20090225133337.html</ref><br />
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In 2010 he released [[Primaria]], his third feature film. He shot it in the school San Francisco de Paula in Seville. He spent a year there teaching the children art. Since it was the first time in film making history that the same teacher of the children was also their director in a film, Noel believed that this would increase the naturalness in the representation of scenes by the child actors, creating a very favorable context to get real emotions and situations experienced. In this sense, Noel likes to say this film is "a story with children where nothing is invented, even the most unlikely thing."<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/http://www.noticiasaljarafe.es/noticia.php?id=2490 "Ivan Noel graba su tercer largometraje en el sevillano colegio San Francisco de Paula"]</ref> Noel defines the film as "a comedy about the bowels of the primary starring three students, Jose Joaquin, Carlos and Carmen." The film also portrays the life of the faculty, focusing mainly on three of them. Noel manages to convey the personal lives of these teachers beyond their work without reaching the use of narration.<br />
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With [[Vuelve]], commercially released in 2012, Noel moves into the horror genre. Filmed in Argentina , it is about a boy who loses his mother under strange circumstances. She communicates with him from beyond the grave, seeking a reunion. The film premiered on October 12, 2011 at the Festival of Unusual Cinema of Buenos Aires.<ref>http://www.asalallena.com.ar/festivales-all/noticias/programacion-vii-festival-de-cine-inusual-de-bs-as/</ref><ref>http://festivaldecineinusual.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/horarios-vii-festival-de-cine-inusual.html</ref> His next project, [[Limbo]] was released in 2013. One reviewer noted: {{quote| Director Iván Noel is oddly missing from the roster of international directors assured an American release. Six films into his career, his curious blending of drama and uncanny elements would seem like a natural fit, akin to (but more optimistic than) Alex van Warmerdam (Borgman). He delved into horror with 2013's Vuelve, and with Limbo (to use its original Argentinian title) and this year's They Returned, it marks an interesting twist in his career.<br />
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It's undoubtedly a twist of note. He finds children of suitable maturity for the vampire orphanage and draws surprisingly nuanced performances from each of them, never relying on any one too much for the drama. No surprise for a former teacher that spent 20 years in classrooms. His tone here is of quizzical comedy, rather than existential angst. He isn't afraid to get bloody, either, with a side-plot about an ongoing war between local vampire hunters and Dracula's grandson. But he's mostly playful. After all, his vampires are not adults in children's bodies. They're very old children. Imagine being stuck in your acne phase for eternity, or never going through puberty: That's who they are, in all their chuckling glee.<ref>{{cite news |last=Whittaker |first=Richard |date=Oct. 31, 2015 |title="DVDanger: This Is Halloween<br />
Unconventional horror for the haunting time" |url=http://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/screens/2015-10-31/dvdanger-this-is-halloween/ |newspaper=Austin Chronicle |access-date=May 3, 2016</ref> }} <br />
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Loosely inspired by an event that took place in Memphis during the 1990s, [[They Returned]] turns on the strange disappearance of three children from their small town, and their reappearance three days later in a semi-autistic state. {{quote|“They Returned” is a “thriller with strong supernatural elements, drawing on a political historical context,” explained Betina Goldman, from long-running Latin America and horror specialist One Eyed. “We see great festival and critical recognition potential in the works,” she added. <ref>{{cite news |last=Mayorga |first=Emilio |date=December 3, 2014 |title="One Eyed Takes ‘They Returned’" |url=https://variety.com/2014/film/global/one-eyed-takes-they-returned-1201370695/ |newspaper=variety.com |access-date=May 3, 2016</ref>}}<br />
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== Controversy ==<br />
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His films are also somewhat controversial because almost all of them feature child nudity. He also did an interview<ref>https://archive.is/zhFDm</ref> in issue 03 of [[Destroyer Magazine]], a publication which has received criticism for allegedly "sexualising" children.<ref>http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article10844674.ab</ref> He responds to this controversy:<br />
{{quote|So why is my film deemed controversial? …Dear God, today taking a picture of your own baby child in the bath is controversial! Silly, silly values of a society gone slightly nuts: complete loss of references: hysteria that is causing voluntary amnesia about what being young was about. Again, the predominance of morally regressive values, from a bored and overly wealthy society that has nothing other to do than point fingers just to exist, and score more socially correct points than the neighbor.<br />
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The worst of it, the most inexcusable and shocking, is that even artists these days partake of that silly game. We live in a new type of Victorian age, and as we now laugh at how they used to cover the legs of pianos, and dress horses up, we will be the laughing stock of future generations.<ref>http://www.theskykid.com/exclusive-interview-director-ivan-noel-of-en-tu-ausencia/</ref>}}<br />
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== List of Films ==<br />
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*[[En tu Ausencia]] (English: [[In Your Absence]]) (2008)<br />
*[[Brecha]] (2009)<br />
*[[Primaria]] (English: [[Primary!]]) (2010)<br />
*[[Vuelve]] (2013)<br />
*[[Limbo]] (English: [[Children of the Night]] (2014)<br />
*[[Ellos Volvieron]] (English: [[They Returned]]) (2015)<br />
*[[Rodillas Quemadas]] (English: [[Burnt Knees]])(Currently in production)<br />
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{{Navbox Ivan Noel films}}<br />
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==See also==<br />
[[BoyLovers as film producers/directors]]<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[http://www.noelfilms.com Official Site]<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/user/yyyyyves Official YouTube channel]<br />
*[https://vimeo.com/user2068991 vimeo channel]<br />
*[https://www.facebook.com/Ivan-Noel-1586561354891067/ facebook]<br />
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== References ==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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[[Category:People]]<br />
[[Category:Filmmakers]]</div>Thomasmannhttps://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=Ivan_Noel&diff=35540Ivan Noel2016-05-05T01:29:44Z<p>Thomasmann: total revamp</p>
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<div>'''Iván Noel''' is a Spanish producer and director, known for [[They Returned]] (2015), [[En tu Ausencia ]] (2008) and [[Primaria]] (2010). In their July, 2009 journal, Camilo José Cela University compared his works to that of Truffaut and Comencini.<ref>www.ucjc.edu/files/pdf/press/resumendeprensa7-8jul09.pdf</ref>[http://updrop.it/uploads/572a71ab58ef521001.png Photo of the article.] He originally started in the arts by writing and performing his own musical compositions. The transition from music to film came from his love for combining and juxtaposing the two art forms in order to make something greater than the two by themselves.<br />
<br />
{{quote|“I was having a hard time finding the sort of films to put my own music to, so I began shooting small scenes for specific pieces of mine. From small scenes I made short movies, then eventually went on to write and produce feature films. All that just to showcase my music! There must have been a cheaper way, but it was more fun this way.”<br />
<br />
–Iván Noel<ref>http://www.noelfilms.com/about/</ref>}}<br />
<br />
Since those first small scenes, he has gone on to release six feature films. All of the movies, despite their different plots, characters, and other thematic elements, share the commonality of confronting moral issues without yielding to the conventions of political correctness.<br />
<br />
== Early Life ==<br />
Noel was born in 1968 in Beirut. His mother is Australian and his father is French. He speaks four languages.<ref>[http://www.semanarioprimerdia.com.ar/2012/03/con-ninos-actores-locales-se-viene.html "Con niños actores locales se viene filmando “Limbo”: una película sobre vampiros"</ref> His family was well-to-do but "nomadic resulting in him attending 8 different schools and living in 12 different countries.<ref>http://www.artsploitationfilms.com/film/children-of-the-night/</ref> <br />
{{quote|I started taking pictures when I was about 9 or 10. Then I bought an 8mm camera, and started shooting immediately. It was a very violent film about social injustice, acted by a crazed (11-year-old) beggar who had had enough. He took out his frustration by banging his head against tree trunks. It was a rather loose script and involved about 200 children from my own school (Lancing College), and was shot during playtime. It ended with the protagonist’s insane run through town and forest, ending when he (my best friend) bangs against a dead-end traffic sign."<ref>http://www.theskykid.com/exclusive-interview-director-ivan-noel-of-en-tu-ausencia/</ref>}}<br />
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He has a BA in education and composing soundtracks from the University of York<ref>http://www.lebrijadigital.com/web/component/content/article/268-uncategorised/1438-mas-de-400-personas-acudieron-a-los-dos-pases-con-que-conto-el-preestreno-de-brecha-de-ivan-noel</ref> and began his career as professor in the field of music, composing and giving concerts as a solo classical guitarist and piano player.<br />
<br />
== Film making ==<br />
Noel entered the audiovisual world first through the production of short films. He won important prizes in Europe both for his photography (Best New Artists at the Petit Palais’ ‘Salon d’Automn’ exhibitions, Paris), but also his compositions (finalist winner of the British Songwriting competition in 2006.<ref>http://www.artsploitationfilms.com/film/children-of-the-night</ref> In 2006 he decided to sell his house to finance the filming of his first feature film, [[In Your Absence]] (2008). About that film he said he is in debt to the realism of director Ken Loach . This film was shot between Jerez and the Sierra de Cádiz. It was a low budget production made with unknown actors, but it woke the interest of critics. The film was featured in several festivals, including Vancouver, Palm Springs, Chicago, Bahamas, Athens, etc. In Vancouver the film finished fifth out of more than 200 films. Vanguard International Cinema distributed the film in North America.<ref>http://www.amazon.com/EN-AUSENCIA-GONZALO-SANCHEZ-SALAS/dp/B001TK2986</ref> Interestingly, the film has not been released or distributed in Spain.<br />
<br />
For the next project, the director moved to a town of Seville, Lebrija. He lived there for a year to study the local people so that cast them correctly. For funding, Noel, lacking a budget, raised the money through donations. He arranged free rentals of shooting locations and the actors volunteered to work for free. It was recorded during the summer of 2008, and was released in 2009 with the title of of Gap later to be changed to [[Brecha]]. It opened to small premires in Spain, and was received with praise by it's audiences.<ref>http://www.lebrijadigital.com/web/component/content/article/268-uncategorised/1438-mas-de-400-personas-acudieron-a-los-dos-pases-con-que-conto-el-preestreno-de-brecha-de-ivan-noel</ref> <ref>http://www.europapress.es/cultura/noticia-andalucia-sevilla-teatro-juan-bernabe-abanderara-preestreno-brecha-film-rodado-lebrija-frances-ivan-noel-20090225133337.html</ref><br />
<br />
In 2010 he released [[Primaria]], his third feature film. He shot it in the school San Francisco de Paula in Seville. He spent a year there teaching the children art. Since it was the first time in film making history that the same teacher of the children was also their director in a film, Noel believed that this would increase the naturalness in the representation of scenes by the child actors, creating a very favorable context to get real emotions and situations experienced. In this sense, Noel likes to say this film is "a story with children where nothing is invented, even the most unlikely thing."<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/http://www.noticiasaljarafe.es/noticia.php?id=2490 "Ivan Noel graba su tercer largometraje en el sevillano colegio San Francisco de Paula"]</ref> Noel defines the film as "a comedy about the bowels of the primary starring three students, Jose Joaquin, Carlos and Carmen." The film also portrays the life of the faculty, focusing mainly on three of them. Noel manages to convey the personal lives of these teachers beyond their work without reaching the use of narration.<br />
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With [[Vuelve]], commercially released in 2012, Noel moves into the horror genre. Filmed in Argentina , it is about a boy who loses his mother under strange circumstances. She communicates with him from beyond the grave, seeking a reunion. The film premiered on October 12, 2011 at the Festival of Unusual Cinema of Buenos Aires.<ref>http://www.asalallena.com.ar/festivales-all/noticias/programacion-vii-festival-de-cine-inusual-de-bs-as/</ref><ref>http://festivaldecineinusual.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/horarios-vii-festival-de-cine-inusual.html</ref> His next project, [[Limbo]] was released in 2013. One reviewer noted: {{quote| Director Iván Noel is oddly missing from the roster of international directors assured an American release. Six films into his career, his curious blending of drama and uncanny elements would seem like a natural fit, akin to (but more optimistic than) Alex van Warmerdam (Borgman). He delved into horror with 2013's Vuelve, and with Limbo (to use its original Argentinian title) and this year's They Returned, it marks an interesting twist in his career.<br />
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It's undoubtedly a twist of note. He finds children of suitable maturity for the vampire orphanage and draws surprisingly nuanced performances from each of them, never relying on any one too much for the drama. No surprise for a former teacher that spent 20 years in classrooms. His tone here is of quizzical comedy, rather than existential angst. He isn't afraid to get bloody, either, with a side-plot about an ongoing war between local vampire hunters and Dracula's grandson. But he's mostly playful. After all, his vampires are not adults in children's bodies. They're very old children. Imagine being stuck in your acne phase for eternity, or never going through puberty: That's who they are, in all their chuckling glee.<ref>{{cite news |last=Whittaker |first=Richard |date=Oct. 31, 2015 |title="DVDanger: This Is Halloween<br />
Unconventional horror for the haunting time" |url=http://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/screens/2015-10-31/dvdanger-this-is-halloween/ |newspaper=Austin Chronicle |access-date=May 3, 2016</ref> }} <br />
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Loosely inspired by an event that took place in Memphis during the 1990s, [[They Returned]] turns on the strange disappearance of three children from their small town, and their reappearance three days later in a semi-autistic state. {{quote|“They Returned” is a “thriller with strong supernatural elements, drawing on a political historical context,” explained Betina Goldman, from long-running Latin America and horror specialist One Eyed. “We see great festival and critical recognition potential in the works,” she added. <ref>{{cite news |last=Mayorga |first=Emilio |date=December 3, 2014 |title="One Eyed Takes ‘They Returned’" |url=https://variety.com/2014/film/global/one-eyed-takes-they-returned-1201370695/ |newspaper=variety.com |access-date=May 3, 2016</ref>}}<br />
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== Controversy ==<br />
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His films are also somewhat controversial because almost all of them feature child nudity. He also did an interview<ref>https://archive.is/zhFDm</ref> in issue 03 of [[Destroyer Magazine]], a publication which has received criticism for allegedly "sexualising" children.<ref>http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article10844674.ab</ref> He responds to this controversy:<br />
{{quote|So why is my film deemed controversial? …Dear God, today taking a picture of your own baby child in the bath is controversial! Silly, silly values of a society gone slightly nuts: complete loss of references: hysteria that is causing voluntary amnesia about what being young was about. Again, the predominance of morally regressive values, from a bored and overly wealthy society that has nothing other to do than point fingers just to exist, and score more socially correct points than the neighbor.<br />
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The worst of it, the most inexcusable and shocking, is that even artists these days partake of that silly game. We live in a new type of Victorian age, and as we now laugh at how they used to cover the legs of pianos, and dress horses up, we will be the laughing stock of future generations.<ref>http://www.theskykid.com/exclusive-interview-director-ivan-noel-of-en-tu-ausencia/</ref>}}<br />
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== List of Films ==<br />
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*[[En tu Ausencia]] (English: [[In Your Absence]]) (2008)<br />
*[[Brecha]] (2009)<br />
*[[Primaria]] (English: [[Primary!]]) (2010)<br />
*[[Vuelve]] (2013)<br />
*[[Limbo]] (English: [[Children of the Night]] (2014)<br />
*[[Ellos Volvieron]] (English: [[They Returned]]) (2015)<br />
*[[Rodillas Quemadas]] (English: [[Burnt Knees]])(Currently in production)<br />
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{{Navbox Ivan Noel films}}<br />
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==See also==<br />
[[BoyLovers as film producers/directors]]<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[http://www.noelfilms.com Official Site]<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/user/yyyyyves Official YouTube channel]<br />
*[https://vimeo.com/user2068991 vimeo channel]<br />
*[https://www.facebook.com/Ivan-Noel-1586561354891067/ facebook]<br />
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== References ==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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[[Category:People]]<br />
[[Category:Filmmakers]]</div>Thomasmannhttps://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=Talk:Wes_Anderson&diff=35539Talk:Wes Anderson2016-05-05T01:12:24Z<p>Thomasmann: /* "This has led to speculation regarding his sexual orientation." */ reply to User4</p>
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<div>[[Wes_Anderson#Boylover.3F|Speculating]] if someone who has not come out as a BL can be a dangerous and potentially libelous. Plus, I feel strongly that we should not engage in that. Is there a way you can reword the intro to that section to make it a little less inflammatory and make it focus more on that the man enjoys working with boys etc.. and has many boys in his films and let people draw their own conclusion for that? BTW, thanks for all you work. As I am sure User4 will tell you, I am not a big "thank you' kind of guy" or a flatterer.. just know that your efforts are appreciated. --[[Etenne]] [[File:BLSmileyface.png|50 px|link=Etenne]] 12:31, 2 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Ok, I will find a way to rework it without the speculation. [[User:Thomasmann|Thomasmann]] ([[User talk:Thomasmann|talk]]) 16:26, 2 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== "This has led to speculation regarding his sexual orientation." ==<br />
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That is a true, but not a damning, statement. Perhaps that could be included somewhere? [[User:User4|User4]] ([[User talk:User4|talk]]) 17:21, 2 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:[[Talk:User4|User4]], I think in order to say something like that, [[Etenne]] would want the speculation to be from some kind of mainstream newspaper or something. It's ok I think. I just revised the article completely leaving out any speculation or my own thoughts. It's just the facts posted there now. And you don't have to be a genius to see what the facts indicate here. This guy is '''without a doubt''', a 100% and complete _________. Personally, I hope we never can verify it through news media because the only reason that'd be in the news is if he got in trouble for something. He's one of my very favorite directors. I want him to stay safe and making excellent movies with cute boys for the rest of my days. [[User:Thomasmann|Thomasmann]] ([[User talk:Thomasmann|talk]]) 17:47, 2 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: Hmm... so here's the conundrum we face: You-know-who's won't out themselves. The media lies and distortions are not countered in the major media. Until gays "came out" in large numbers, there was no "gay liberation movement." We allow ourselves to be tyrannized by a small number of ''very vocal'' nutcases. And so [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_love_that_dare_not_speak_its_name "the love that dare not speak its name"] remains silent. Have you read [[America's War on Sex]] yet? [[User:User4|User4]] ([[User talk:User4|talk]]) 18:01, 2 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::"Until gays "came out" in large numbers, there was no gay liberation movement." Says the guy posting under the name [[User:User4|User4]] lol. I'll check the book out. [[User:Thomasmann|Thomasmann]] ([[User talk:Thomasmann|talk]]) 20:26, 2 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::: I'm in the Education business. I disseminate important information about us to concerned others. Almost no one else in the world is doing what I am doing and in the way I am doing it. For example, I made information available about safely and easily setting up blogs--blogs that couldn't be automatically shut down by a few "complainer" antis. Several blogs were subsequently set up by BoyLovers, and continue to this day. I have made many many many books, articles, etc. easily available that educate the public, including other BoyLovers. I still have a huge amount of work to do--making obscure books easily available, etc. "Outing" myself ''could'' mean the end to all my activities. Do you think I should risk all that by "outing" myself? [[User:User4|User4]] ([[User talk:User4|talk]]) 20:39, 2 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::::: I don't know. I've come out to a lot of people. I only regret a few instances. It's mostly been a positive experience. But, of course, you could never jeopardize your job. I was just yanking your chain before. [[User:Thomasmann|Thomasmann]] ([[User talk:Thomasmann|talk]]) 01:12, 5 May 2016 (UTC)</div>Thomasmannhttps://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=Tor_(The_Onion_Router)&diff=35536Tor (The Onion Router)2016-05-05T01:04:53Z<p>Thomasmann: merged javascript article</p>
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<div>'''Tor''' is a free open source project providing people with a [[proxy]] to make their computer IP address anonymous when surfing the Internet.<br />
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:NOTE: This article gives some of the technical details on how Tor works. If you'd like to skip the technical information, then just see link to the Tor Project homepage at the end of this article, visit the Tor homepage, download the browser bundle, and install it. '''''You should make sure that the "global scripts option" (the "S" with a circle and line through it, found on the the upper-left corner of your screen) is set to ''not'' allow scripts.''''' (You can disable this option, and enable scripts, for visiting "safe" sites which do not contain sensitive information.) Using Tor, you can begin to surf the Internet safely and securely. (Note: ''Never'' try to download bit torrents that contain sensitive information through Tor--you are NOT protected from others monitoring your downloads, and your real IP address will be exposed! Also, you should NEVER combine the visiting of sites which have ''the details of your real-life identity'' at the same time that you visit "sensitive" sites. Only do one thing at a time--browsing that involves your "real-life identity," should ''not be done'' at the same time that you are using Tor to visit "sensitive" sites (like BoyChat, for example) Remember: close your Tor browser, and then start it again to protect your real-life identity and to keep yourself safe.<br />
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== Technical details about Tor ==<br />
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Normal proxies forward your data using a single server: they hide your computer IP from websites you visit by placing themselves in the middle of the data transfer. But your privacy could still be compromised by the owner of that single proxy, or by a hostile party monitoring the proxy server.<br />
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The Tor network uses "onion layer routing," called this because it resembles the the layers of an onion. Instead of data being routed through a single proxy, everything will be send [[Encryption|encrypted]] using a chain of proxies, routing your browser's request for pages through a minimum of three servers, often located in different countries. If a Tor server administrator has followed the instructions for setting up their server, then no logs will be kept of traffic through the server. This makes it impossible to compromise people's security, even if the server is seized. The proxy chain is also set up to keep changing servers every few minutes, so for a major spy agency to be able to spy on the Tor network they would have to control ''all'' of the servers in the Tor network--controlling just a few servers would not be enough to track down a user. The Tor network is known to be somewhat slow and is not recommended for downloading large files. The speed it provides is normally enough to anonymously browse websites that are not too heavy on photos or videos, though it can cause the buffering of streaming videos.<br />
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To access the Tor network the end user runs a program called a Tor client (a special Internet browser) on his computer, this comes with an extra filtering program (like [[Privoxy]]) between the Tor client and the Internet browser on the local computer due to the risk of applications like Java revealing user information. Any Tor user with sufficient bandwidth can also choose to run a proxy allowing other Tor users to route traffic through his computer, but one has to be very careful when running an Tor "exit" node, which is the last computer in the chain, and the one that connects directly to the site you are visiting.<br />
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Used correctly, Tor protects one's anonymity. But there can be problems: In 2013 Ross William Ulbricht was arrested for running a Web site--Silk Road--using Tor. It was primarily a marketplace where illegal drug sellers and buyers could connect. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole. (See Wikipedia for information on how his site was compromised by the legal authorities.)<br />
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The Tor technology is attractive to [[boylover]]s because of the [[anonymity]] offered by the proxy network. Some sites, such as Wikipedia, restrict access or posting using Tor software, to reduce spam and malicious hackers. [[BoyChat]] for example, will only allow people to post using Tor if they have a registered nick. The Tor network also hosts hidden sites that can not be taken offline because it is not possible to work out which server is hosting them, however these sites, with the extension ''.onion'', are only accessible if you run Torsoftware in your computer.<br />
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=== Tor and live CD === <br />
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Even when you use Tor it could still be possible for someone to see information on your computer hard drive, and to look at your drive's contents--websites that you have visited using Tor proxy can be found in the Internet browser cache (if it is enabled). But if you use the "Tor browser bundle," with the special version of Firefox that comes with it, then you do not have to worry about your browser cache being stored on your computer.<br />
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Using a "live CD" to browse the Internet avoids leaving any traces of your browsing history on your hard drive, because after you have finished browsing using a live CD all of the data held in volatile RAM memory will disappear, and recovery will not be possible. A live CD (i.e. Tails) with Tor is one of the most powerful anonymity tools that exist.<br />
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== Javascript Exploit ==<br />
Javascript provides many "whistles and bells" in your browser while you browse the Internet. Without javascript enabled in your browser, you may find the functionality of many websites diminished. Some sites will not function at all without javascript enabled in your browser.<br />
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But you should be aware that at least one "exploit" (a "trick" used in computer programming to compromise a computer) exists which law-enforcement personnel can use to expose your identity '''even though you may be surfing behind the protection provided by Tor'''.<br />
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<big>Javascript should ''never'' be enabled in a browser used to visit "sensitive" sites, such as sites posting information which is "pro-pedophile" (or even "anti-pedophile") or which contains other information (or images) which may be of interest to a [[pedophile]].</big><br />
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A large number of [[boylove|BoyLovers]] (and GirlLovers) are now serving very long terms in prison because they enabled javascript in their browsers. Don't be one of them!<br />
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=== List of links proving the Javascript problem ===<br />
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*Inside the Tor exploit | ZDNet<br />
:http://www.zdnet.com/inside-the-tor-exploit-7000018997/<br />
*Firefox Zero-Day Exploit used by FBI to shutdown Child porn on Tor ...<br />
:http://thehackernews.com/2013/08/Firefox-Exploit-Tor-Network-child-pornography-Freedom-Hosting.html<br />
*FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack ...<br />
:http://www.wired.com/2013/09/freedom-hosting-fbi/<br />
*The FBI TOR Exploit - InfoSec Institute<br />
:http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/fbi-tor-exploit/<br />
*Actual risks of javascript and Flash? : TOR - Reddit<br />
:http://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/1y8r3m/actual_risks_of_javascript_and_flash/<br />
*Identity-exposing malware on Tor "could be work of FBI"<br />
:http://www.welivesecurity.com/2013/08/05/identity-exposing-malware-on-tor-could-be-work-of-fbi/<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Encryption]]<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [http://www.torproject.org/ Tor Project homepage]<br />
* [https://tails.boum.org Tails live CD]<br />
* [https://www.whonix.org/ Whonix Anonymous OS]<br />
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[[Category:Essential reading for BoyLovers]]</div>Thomasmannhttps://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=Talk:Javascript_exploit_defeats_Tor_if_javascript_is_enabled_in_the_browser&diff=35535Talk:Javascript exploit defeats Tor if javascript is enabled in the browser2016-05-05T00:59:27Z<p>Thomasmann: response to User4</p>
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<div>Wouldn't it be better if this page was merged with [[Tor]] so there would just be one article. I think it'd be neater that way. This page being on its own is unnecessary. [[User:Thomasmann|Thomasmann]] ([[User talk:Thomasmann|talk]]) 20:48, 2 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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: I agree, of course. The reason this is a standalone article is because another editor was editing the Tor article, and he was including non-factual statements about (completely unfounded) "security risks" in Tor. So I wrote this article, and put a "See also" in the Tor article (and maybe in one or two other related articles as well.) Feel free to merge them! [[User:User4|User4]] ([[User talk:User4|talk]]) 21:34, 2 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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::Cool man. Will do. [[User:Thomasmann|Thomasmann]] ([[User talk:Thomasmann|talk]]) 00:59, 5 May 2016 (UTC)</div>Thomasmannhttps://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=Talk:Encryption&diff=35532Talk:Encryption2016-05-05T00:52:10Z<p>Thomasmann: /* reply to User4 */</p>
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<div>Hi. Good article! You may wish to incorporate information from related articles at BoyWiki which may be discovered through this search: https://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=*encryption&go=Go<br />
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Perhaps you could also include a discussion of 5th-amendment guaranties against self-incrimination?<br />
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Have you checked newgon wiki for related articles yet? There is an archived copy of it at web.archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20111108195112/http://newgon.com/wiki/ but the search function does not work<br />
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Newgon apparently has been reinstated as newgon.net, and there is a search function to discover information.<br />
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The relevant article may be this one: https://www.newgon.net/wiki/Guide_to_Computer_Security<br />
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NOTE: The security certificate has lapsed at newgon.net, so there is some question as to whether the site can be trusted, and the possibility exists that javascript exploits may be present on the site which could expose the IP address of the person accessing the site (it is unlikely, but it is a possibility). I personally do not access newgon.net because I will not take such risks, even if they are small--but you may feel differently. [[User:User4|User4]] ([[User talk:User4|talk]]) 19:57, 30 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== reply to [[User4]] ==<br />
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Hey [https://www.boywiki.org/en/User:User4 User4] thanks for the suggestions. I was wondering, do you know how to change the way the references look on the page? I would like them to be in columns and appear under the heading References. As of now they are situated right after https://www.boywiki.org/en/Encryption#United_States and it doesn't look clean like that. <br />
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Again thanks for all your help. [[User:Thomasmann|Thomasmann]] ([[User talk:Thomasmann|talk]]) 00:46, 5 May 2016 (UTC) (edited to add signature)<br />
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: I had the same problem with an article from Wikipedia. I believe the references problem is because you are using Wikipedia format for citations: e.g. "#cite_note-5".<br />
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: By manually changing each citation to <nowiki><ref>PUT_YOUR_REFERENCE_HERE</ref></nowiki> the references will appear in the <nowiki>{{reflist}}</nowiki> section under <nowiki>==References==</nowiki> (NOTE: I added <nowiki>{{reflist}}</nowiki> in your article.) About columns, you have to ask Etenne. OK? [[User:User4|User4]] ([[User talk:User4|talk]]) 20:57, 30 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: Ok thank you, but before when i added <nowiki>{{reflist}}</nowiki> it was doing really strange things like making the references section appear 3 times. I'll get it eventually I guess. Thanks for your help.<br />
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::: The "#cite_note-5" references screw the page up (if I remember correctly from fixing an article of my own) and they ''all'' must be removed. If you copy the contents of the page and paste into a straight-text editor (like Notepad under the Windows operating system) you may find it easier to use a search/replace function to help in fixing them. (NOTE: using one additional colon at the beginning of your response indents the response. I added one to your response above. For example, this response to you has 3 colons. Also, if you copy this <nowiki> ~~~~ </nowiki> and paste it to the end of your response, your user name and the date/time will appear after your response [you will be "signing" your response].) [[User:User4|User4]] ([[User talk:User4|talk]]) 21:14, 30 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::: I have now made a few small changes to the coding, and I think the problem is now fixed. I removed the junk with <nowiki> {{cite... </nowiki> and added the missing <nowiki> </ref></nowiki> to the last of the references. I made a "junktest" version, with changes, here: https://www.boywiki.org/en/User4/junkencryptiontest<br />
:::: Does it look better now? [[User:User4|User4]] ([[User talk:User4|talk]]) 21:37, 30 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::::[[User:User4|User4]], Are you saying we should get rid of all the parts about key disclosure law in various countries? I don't know if I'd agree. For example in countries where one must disclose their key or face indefinite detention, it'd probably be advisable to come up with some other sort of solution; '''such as just not saving any BL related things.''' I'm not speaking of child porn. Perhaps in some country a guy could be forced to reveal his key to a drive that was full of non-nude pictures of boys. Maybe he could be put in prison for that thought crime. If I lived in a country like that, I would want to know about it. But maybe, getting rid of that part isn't what you meant? I'm not sure.<br />
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:::::One thing I was thinking, there are about 5 privacy and security tutorials on this wiki. Some of them are better than others. A lot of them have some sort of little snippet on encryption. I'm wondering if we should '''combine all the security tutorials into one page''' while continue to improve this main encryption page. I'm not sure how [[Etenne]] feel's about combining and merging pages. I'm sure he doesn't want to annoy anyone. It does seem better if there was just one security tutorial that was well written and comprehensive. Another example is the page [[Steganography]]. That should probably just be a subcategory in the main encryption page. Most of them mention [[Tor]] but we could even expand the [[Tor]] page with a tutorial on how to set up your own hidden service or how to set up an "anonymizing middelbox", etc. [[User:Thomasmann|Thomasmann]] ([[User talk:Thomasmann|talk]]) 00:46, 5 May 2016 (UTC)</div>Thomasmannhttps://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=Talk:Encryption&diff=35531Talk:Encryption2016-05-05T00:46:54Z<p>Thomasmann: /* reply to User4 */ cont</p>
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<div>Hi. Good article! You may wish to incorporate information from related articles at BoyWiki which may be discovered through this search: https://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=*encryption&go=Go<br />
<br />
Perhaps you could also include a discussion of 5th-amendment guaranties against self-incrimination?<br />
<br />
Have you checked newgon wiki for related articles yet? There is an archived copy of it at web.archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20111108195112/http://newgon.com/wiki/ but the search function does not work<br />
<br />
Newgon apparently has been reinstated as newgon.net, and there is a search function to discover information.<br />
<br />
The relevant article may be this one: https://www.newgon.net/wiki/Guide_to_Computer_Security<br />
<br />
NOTE: The security certificate has lapsed at newgon.net, so there is some question as to whether the site can be trusted, and the possibility exists that javascript exploits may be present on the site which could expose the IP address of the person accessing the site (it is unlikely, but it is a possibility). I personally do not access newgon.net because I will not take such risks, even if they are small--but you may feel differently. [[User:User4|User4]] ([[User talk:User4|talk]]) 19:57, 30 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== reply to [[User4]] ==<br />
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Hey [https://www.boywiki.org/en/User:User4 User4] thanks for the suggestions. I was wondering, do you know how to change the way the references look on the page? I would like them to be in columns and appear under the heading References. As of now they are situated right after https://www.boywiki.org/en/Encryption#United_States and it doesn't look clean like that. <br />
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Again thanks for all your help. [[User:Thomasmann|Thomasmann]] ([[User talk:Thomasmann|talk]]) 00:46, 5 May 2016 (UTC) (edited to add signature)<br />
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: I had the same problem with an article from Wikipedia. I believe the references problem is because you are using Wikipedia format for citations: e.g. "#cite_note-5".<br />
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: By manually changing each citation to <nowiki><ref>PUT_YOUR_REFERENCE_HERE</ref></nowiki> the references will appear in the <nowiki>{{reflist}}</nowiki> section under <nowiki>==References==</nowiki> (NOTE: I added <nowiki>{{reflist}}</nowiki> in your article.) About columns, you have to ask Etenne. OK? [[User:User4|User4]] ([[User talk:User4|talk]]) 20:57, 30 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: Ok thank you, but before when i added <nowiki>{{reflist}}</nowiki> it was doing really strange things like making the references section appear 3 times. I'll get it eventually I guess. Thanks for your help.<br />
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::: The "#cite_note-5" references screw the page up (if I remember correctly from fixing an article of my own) and they ''all'' must be removed. If you copy the contents of the page and paste into a straight-text editor (like Notepad under the Windows operating system) you may find it easier to use a search/replace function to help in fixing them. (NOTE: using one additional colon at the beginning of your response indents the response. I added one to your response above. For example, this response to you has 3 colons. Also, if you copy this <nowiki> ~~~~ </nowiki> and paste it to the end of your response, your user name and the date/time will appear after your response [you will be "signing" your response].) [[User:User4|User4]] ([[User talk:User4|talk]]) 21:14, 30 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::: I have now made a few small changes to the coding, and I think the problem is now fixed. I removed the junk with <nowiki> {{cite... </nowiki> and added the missing <nowiki> </ref></nowiki> to the last of the references. I made a "junktest" version, with changes, here: https://www.boywiki.org/en/User4/junkencryptiontest<br />
:::: Does it look better now? [[User:User4|User4]] ([[User talk:User4|talk]]) 21:37, 30 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::::[[User:User4|User4]], Are you saying we should get rid of all the parts about key disclosure law in various countries? I don't know if I'd agree. For example in countries where one must disclose their key or face indefinite detention, it'd probably be advisable to come up with some other sort of solution; '''such as just not saving any BL related things.''' I'm not speaking of child porn. Perhaps in some country a guy could be forced to reveal his key to a drive that was full of non-nude pictures of boys. Maybe he could be put in prison for that thought crime. If I lived in a country like that, I would want to know about it. But maybe, getting rid of that part isn't what you meant? I'm not sure.<br />
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:::::One thing I was thinking, there are about 5 privacy and security tutorials on this wiki. Some of them are better than others. A lot of them have some sort of little snippet on encryption. I'm wondering if we should '''combine all the security tutorials into one page''' while continue to improve this main encryption page. I'm not sure how [[Etenne]] feel's about combining and merging pages. I'm sure he doesn't want to annoy anyone. It does seem better if there was just one security tutorial that was well written and comprehensive. Most of them mention [[Tor]] but we could even expand the [[Tor]] page with a tutorial on how to set up your own hidden service or how to set up an "anonymizing middelbox", etc. [[User:Thomasmann|Thomasmann]] ([[User talk:Thomasmann|talk]]) 00:46, 5 May 2016 (UTC)</div>Thomasmannhttps://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=User_talk:Thomasmann&diff=35530User talk:Thomasmann2016-05-05T00:22:18Z<p>Thomasmann: /* An easily-searchable index of all extant BoyWiki articles */ response to User4</p>
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<div>'''Welcome to ''BoyWiki''!'''<br />
We hope you will contribute much and well.<br />
You will probably want to read the [[:Category:Help|help pages]].<br />
Again, welcome and have fun! [[Etenne]] [[File:BLSmileyface.png|50 px|link=Etenne]] 12:49, 29 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
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Thanks [[Etenne]] glad to be here! [[Thomasmann]]<br />
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== Hi. ==<br />
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Welcome.<br />
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I left a message for you on the Encryption article talk page: https://www.boywiki.org/en/Talk:Encryption [[User:User4|User4]] ([[User talk:User4|talk]]) 20:20, 30 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== You may want to save yourself from some unnecessary work. ==<br />
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Usually ''only the first instance'' of any important term includes a link to an article with more information. It is not necessary (nor customary) on wikis to create a link for ''every instance'' of the term in an article. You are welcome to do so, if you wish, but it is not really necessary at all, as the "See also" section can (and should) include the linked article as well. [[User:User4|User4]] ([[User talk:User4|talk]]) 22:49, 30 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Yeah I was wondering about that [[User:User4|User4]] . As I was doing it it seemed quite superfluous. Thanks again for all your help.<br />
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:: No problem!<br />
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::Oh, I added a colon to your above response, so it is now indented. This response of mine here has ''2'' colons before it, so it is indented even further. Also, it is customary to sign your posts everywhere except within a regular article. This is done by including four of these -- like this-- <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki> -- after your comment in order to identify yourself and to place the date and time your post was made. OK? [[User:User4|User4]] ([[User talk:User4|talk]]) 23:06, 30 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::Sounds good! [[User:Thomasmann|Thomasmann]] ([[User talk:Thomasmann|talk]]) 23:08, 30 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::: Another way to indent (which will span lines) is to use the <nowiki><blockquote>PUT_INDENTED_TEST_HERE</blockquote></nowiki> tags. Place the text you wish indented ''between'' the opening and closing tags. Then you don't have to remember to put the colons at the beginning of each separate paragraph (the indention will "stick" until the closing <nowiki></blockquote></nowiki> tag.) Oh, and it is customary to indent direct quotations in articles. [[User:User4|User4]] ([[User talk:User4|talk]]) 23:06, 30 April 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== An easily-searchable index of all extant BoyWiki articles ==<br />
I prepared one here:<br />
*https://www.boywiki.org/en/User:User4/DRAFT/Main_Index_of_all_BoyWiki_pages_%28must_be_manually_updated_when_necessary%29<br />
... but it has not been updated with newly created articles since around June of last year (and it was not really complete at that time, either--annotations still needed to be made to some articles).<br />
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It used to get (according to a now-disabled feature of the wiki software) a ''tremendous'' number of "hits" (accesses) but it is unclear how many of those may have been external "robots" drawn by serendipity to the site.<br />
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Another page I created:<br />
*[[ALL_BW_INTERNAL_LINKS_TO_CHECK_IF_VALID]]<br />
can be useful to determine what links already exist (but, again, it is only valid for links up to around June of last year).<br />
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You may find the above useful. What do you think? [[User:User4|User4]] ([[User talk:User4|talk]]) 21:59, 2 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:It seems like a hell of a lot of work but I'll contribute when I have time. Things have been a bit crazy the past few days. You're doing the good Lord's work [[User:User4|User4]] :) [[User:Thomasmann|Thomasmann]] ([[User talk:Thomasmann|talk]]) 00:22, 5 May 2016 (UTC)</div>Thomasmannhttps://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=Talk:Javascript_exploit_defeats_Tor_if_javascript_is_enabled_in_the_browser&diff=35288Talk:Javascript exploit defeats Tor if javascript is enabled in the browser2016-05-02T20:48:48Z<p>Thomasmann: merge?</p>
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<div>Wouldn't it be better if this page was merged with [[Tor]] so there would just be one article. I think it'd be neater that way. This page being on its own is unnecessary. [[User:Thomasmann|Thomasmann]] ([[User talk:Thomasmann|talk]]) 20:48, 2 May 2016 (UTC)</div>Thomasmannhttps://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=Talk:Wes_Anderson&diff=35286Talk:Wes Anderson2016-05-02T20:26:57Z<p>Thomasmann: /* "This has led to speculation regarding his sexual orientation." */</p>
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<div>[[Wes_Anderson#Boylover.3F|Speculating]] if someone who has not come out as a BL can be a dangerous and potentially libelous. Plus, I feel strongly that we should not engage in that. Is there a way you can reword the intro to that section to make it a little less inflammatory and make it focus more on that the man enjoys working with boys etc.. and has many boys in his films and let people draw their own conclusion for that? BTW, thanks for all you work. As I am sure User4 will tell you, I am not a big "thank you' kind of guy" or a flatterer.. just know that your efforts are appreciated. --[[Etenne]] [[File:BLSmileyface.png|50 px|link=Etenne]] 12:31, 2 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Ok, I will find a way to rework it without the speculation. [[User:Thomasmann|Thomasmann]] ([[User talk:Thomasmann|talk]]) 16:26, 2 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== "This has led to speculation regarding his sexual orientation." ==<br />
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That is a true, but not a damning, statement. Perhaps that could be included somewhere? [[User:User4|User4]] ([[User talk:User4|talk]]) 17:21, 2 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:[[Talk:User4|User4]], I think in order to say something like that, [[Etenne]] would want the speculation to be from some kind of mainstream newspaper or something. It's ok I think. I just revised the article completely leaving out any speculation or my own thoughts. It's just the facts posted there now. And you don't have to be a genius to see what the facts indicate here. This guy is '''without a doubt''', a 100% and complete _________. Personally, I hope we never can verify it through news media because the only reason that'd be in the news is if he got in trouble for something. He's one of my very favorite directors. I want him to stay safe and making excellent movies with cute boys for the rest of my days. [[User:Thomasmann|Thomasmann]] ([[User talk:Thomasmann|talk]]) 17:47, 2 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
:<br />
:: Hmm... so here's the conundrum we face: You-know-who's won't out themselves. The media lies and distortions are not countered in the major media. Until gays "came out" in large numbers, there was no "gay liberation movement." We allow ourselves to be tyrannized by a small number of ''very vocal'' nutcases. And so [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_love_that_dare_not_speak_its_name "the love that dare not speak its name"] remains silent. Have you read [[America's War on Sex]] yet? [[User:User4|User4]] ([[User talk:User4|talk]]) 18:01, 2 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::"Until gays "came out" in large numbers, there was no gay liberation movement." Says the guy posting under the name [[User:User4|User4]] lol. I'll check the book out. [[User:Thomasmann|Thomasmann]] ([[User talk:Thomasmann|talk]]) 20:26, 2 May 2016 (UTC)</div>Thomasmannhttps://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=Talk:Wes_Anderson&diff=35285Talk:Wes Anderson2016-05-02T20:26:26Z<p>Thomasmann: /* "This has led to speculation regarding his sexual orientation." */</p>
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<div>[[Wes_Anderson#Boylover.3F|Speculating]] if someone who has not come out as a BL can be a dangerous and potentially libelous. Plus, I feel strongly that we should not engage in that. Is there a way you can reword the intro to that section to make it a little less inflammatory and make it focus more on that the man enjoys working with boys etc.. and has many boys in his films and let people draw their own conclusion for that? BTW, thanks for all you work. As I am sure User4 will tell you, I am not a big "thank you' kind of guy" or a flatterer.. just know that your efforts are appreciated. --[[Etenne]] [[File:BLSmileyface.png|50 px|link=Etenne]] 12:31, 2 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Ok, I will find a way to rework it without the speculation. [[User:Thomasmann|Thomasmann]] ([[User talk:Thomasmann|talk]]) 16:26, 2 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== "This has led to speculation regarding his sexual orientation." ==<br />
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That is a true, but not a damning, statement. Perhaps that could be included somewhere? [[User:User4|User4]] ([[User talk:User4|talk]]) 17:21, 2 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:[[Talk:User4|User4]], I think in order to say something like that, [[Etenne]] would want the speculation to be from some kind of mainstream newspaper or something. It's ok I think. I just revised the article completely leaving out any speculation or my own thoughts. It's just the facts posted there now. And you don't have to be a genius to see what the facts indicate here. This guy is '''without a doubt''', a 100% and complete _________. Personally, I hope we never can verify it through news media because the only reason that'd be in the news is if he got in trouble for something. He's one of my very favorite directors. I want him to stay safe and making excellent movies with cute boys for the rest of my days. [[User:Thomasmann|Thomasmann]] ([[User talk:Thomasmann|talk]]) 17:47, 2 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
:<br />
:: Hmm... so here's the conundrum we face: You-know-who's won't out themselves. The media lies and distortions are not countered in the major media. Until gays "came out" in large numbers, there was no "gay liberation movement." We allow ourselves to be tyrannized by a small number of ''very vocal'' nutcases. And so [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_love_that_dare_not_speak_its_name "the love that dare not speak its name"] remains silent. Have you read [[America's War on Sex]] yet? [[User:User4|User4]] ([[User talk:User4|talk]]) 18:01, 2 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::"Until gays "came out" in large numbers, there was no gay liberation movement." Says the guy posting under the name [[User:User4|User4]] lol. I'll check the book out.</div>Thomasmannhttps://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=Talk:Wes_Anderson&diff=35284Talk:Wes Anderson2016-05-02T20:25:44Z<p>Thomasmann: /* "This has led to speculation regarding his sexual orientation." */</p>
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<div>[[Wes_Anderson#Boylover.3F|Speculating]] if someone who has not come out as a BL can be a dangerous and potentially libelous. Plus, I feel strongly that we should not engage in that. Is there a way you can reword the intro to that section to make it a little less inflammatory and make it focus more on that the man enjoys working with boys etc.. and has many boys in his films and let people draw their own conclusion for that? BTW, thanks for all you work. As I am sure User4 will tell you, I am not a big "thank you' kind of guy" or a flatterer.. just know that your efforts are appreciated. --[[Etenne]] [[File:BLSmileyface.png|50 px|link=Etenne]] 12:31, 2 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Ok, I will find a way to rework it without the speculation. [[User:Thomasmann|Thomasmann]] ([[User talk:Thomasmann|talk]]) 16:26, 2 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== "This has led to speculation regarding his sexual orientation." ==<br />
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That is a true, but not a damning, statement. Perhaps that could be included somewhere? [[User:User4|User4]] ([[User talk:User4|talk]]) 17:21, 2 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:[[Talk:User4|User4]], I think in order to say something like that, [[Etenne]] would want the speculation to be from some kind of mainstream newspaper or something. It's ok I think. I just revised the article completely leaving out any speculation or my own thoughts. It's just the facts posted there now. And you don't have to be a genius to see what the facts indicate here. This guy is '''without a doubt''', a 100% and complete _________. Personally, I hope we never can verify it through news media because the only reason that'd be in the news is if he got in trouble for something. He's one of my very favorite directors. I want him to stay safe and making excellent movies with cute boys for the rest of my days. [[User:Thomasmann|Thomasmann]] ([[User talk:Thomasmann|talk]]) 17:47, 2 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
:<br />
:: Hmm... so here's the conundrum we face: You-know-who's won't out themselves. The media lies and distortions are not countered in the major media. Until gays "came out" in large numbers, there was no "gay liberation movement." We allow ourselves to be tyrannized by a small number of ''very vocal'' nutcases. And so [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_love_that_dare_not_speak_its_name "the love that dare not speak its name"] remains silent. Have you read [[America's War on Sex]] yet? [[User:User4|User4]] ([[User talk:User4|talk]]) 18:01, 2 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:::"dia. Until gays "came out" in large numbers, there was no gay liberation movement." Says the guy posting under the name [[User:User4|User4]] lol.<br />
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I'll check the book out.</div>Thomasmannhttps://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=Talk:Wes_Anderson&diff=35244Talk:Wes Anderson2016-05-02T17:50:39Z<p>Thomasmann: /* "This has led to speculation regarding his sexual orientation." */</p>
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<div>[[Wes_Anderson#Boylover.3F|Speculating]] if someone who has not come out as a BL can be a dangerous and potentially libelous. Plus, I feel strongly that we should not engage in that. Is there a way you can reword the intro to that section to make it a little less inflammatory and make it focus more on that the man enjoys working with boys etc.. and has many boys in his films and let people draw their own conclusion for that? BTW, thanks for all you work. As I am sure User4 will tell you, I am not a big "thank you' kind of guy" or a flatterer.. just know that your efforts are appreciated. --[[Etenne]] [[File:BLSmileyface.png|50 px|link=Etenne]] 12:31, 2 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Ok, I will find a way to rework it without the speculation. [[User:Thomasmann|Thomasmann]] ([[User talk:Thomasmann|talk]]) 16:26, 2 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== "This has led to speculation regarding his sexual orientation." ==<br />
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That is a true, but not a damning, statement. Perhaps that could be included somewhere? [[User:User4|User4]] ([[User talk:User4|talk]]) 17:21, 2 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:[[Talk:User4|User4]], I think in order to say something like that, [[Etenne]] would want the speculation to be from some kind of mainstream newspaper or something. It's ok I think. I just revised the article completely leaving out any speculation or my own thoughts. It's just the facts posted there now. And you don't have to be a genius to see what the facts indicate here. This guy is '''without a doubt''', a 100% and complete _________. Personally, I hope we never can verify it through news media because the only reason that'd be in the news is if he got in trouble for something. He's one of my very favorite directors. I want him to stay safe and making excellent movies with cute boys for the rest of my days. [[User:Thomasmann|Thomasmann]] ([[User talk:Thomasmann|talk]]) 17:47, 2 May 2016 (UTC)</div>Thomasmannhttps://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=Talk:Wes_Anderson&diff=35243Talk:Wes Anderson2016-05-02T17:49:28Z<p>Thomasmann: /* "This has led to speculation regarding his sexual orientation." */</p>
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<div>[[Wes_Anderson#Boylover.3F|Speculating]] if someone who has not come out as a BL can be a dangerous and potentially libelous. Plus, I feel strongly that we should not engage in that. Is there a way you can reword the intro to that section to make it a little less inflammatory and make it focus more on that the man enjoys working with boys etc.. and has many boys in his films and let people draw their own conclusion for that? BTW, thanks for all you work. As I am sure User4 will tell you, I am not a big "thank you' kind of guy" or a flatterer.. just know that your efforts are appreciated. --[[Etenne]] [[File:BLSmileyface.png|50 px|link=Etenne]] 12:31, 2 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Ok, I will find a way to rework it without the speculation. [[User:Thomasmann|Thomasmann]] ([[User talk:Thomasmann|talk]]) 16:26, 2 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== "This has led to speculation regarding his sexual orientation." ==<br />
<br />
That is a true, but not a damning, statement. Perhaps that could be included somewhere? [[User:User4|User4]] ([[User talk:User4|talk]]) 17:21, 2 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:[[Talk:User4|User4]], I think in order to say something like that, [[Etenne]] would want the speculation to be from some kind of mainstream newspaper or something. It's ok I think. I just revised the article completely leaving out any speculation or my own thoughts. It's just the facts posted there now. And you don't have to be a genius to see what the facts indicate here. This guy is '''without a doubt''', a 100% and complete _________. Personally, I hope we never can verify it through news media because the only reason that'd be in the news is if he got in trouble for something. He's one of my very favorite directors. I want him to stay save and making excellent movies with cute boys for the rest of my days. [[User:Thomasmann|Thomasmann]] ([[User talk:Thomasmann|talk]]) 17:47, 2 May 2016 (UTC)</div>Thomasmannhttps://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=Talk:Wes_Anderson&diff=35242Talk:Wes Anderson2016-05-02T17:48:50Z<p>Thomasmann: /* "This has led to speculation regarding his sexual orientation." */</p>
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<div>[[Wes_Anderson#Boylover.3F|Speculating]] if someone who has not come out as a BL can be a dangerous and potentially libelous. Plus, I feel strongly that we should not engage in that. Is there a way you can reword the intro to that section to make it a little less inflammatory and make it focus more on that the man enjoys working with boys etc.. and has many boys in his films and let people draw their own conclusion for that? BTW, thanks for all you work. As I am sure User4 will tell you, I am not a big "thank you' kind of guy" or a flatterer.. just know that your efforts are appreciated. --[[Etenne]] [[File:BLSmileyface.png|50 px|link=Etenne]] 12:31, 2 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Ok, I will find a way to rework it without the speculation. [[User:Thomasmann|Thomasmann]] ([[User talk:Thomasmann|talk]]) 16:26, 2 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== "This has led to speculation regarding his sexual orientation." ==<br />
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That is a true, but not a damning, statement. Perhaps that could be included somewhere? [[User:User4|User4]] ([[User talk:User4|talk]]) 17:21, 2 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:[[Talk:User4]], I think in order to say something like that, [[Etenne]] would want the speculation to be from some kind of mainstream newspaper or something. It's ok I think. I just revised the article completely leaving out any speculation or my own thoughts. It's just the facts posted there now. And you don't have to be a genius to see what the facts indicate here. This guy is '''without a doubt''', a 100% and complete _________. Personally, I hope we never can verify it through news media because the only reason that'd be in the news is if he got in trouble for something. He's one of my very favorite directors. I want him to stay save and making excellent movies with cute boys for the rest of my days. [[User:Thomasmann|Thomasmann]] ([[User talk:Thomasmann|talk]]) 17:47, 2 May 2016 (UTC)</div>Thomasmannhttps://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=Talk:Wes_Anderson&diff=35241Talk:Wes Anderson2016-05-02T17:47:16Z<p>Thomasmann: </p>
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<div>[[Wes_Anderson#Boylover.3F|Speculating]] if someone who has not come out as a BL can be a dangerous and potentially libelous. Plus, I feel strongly that we should not engage in that. Is there a way you can reword the intro to that section to make it a little less inflammatory and make it focus more on that the man enjoys working with boys etc.. and has many boys in his films and let people draw their own conclusion for that? BTW, thanks for all you work. As I am sure User4 will tell you, I am not a big "thank you' kind of guy" or a flatterer.. just know that your efforts are appreciated. --[[Etenne]] [[File:BLSmileyface.png|50 px|link=Etenne]] 12:31, 2 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Ok, I will find a way to rework it without the speculation. [[User:Thomasmann|Thomasmann]] ([[User talk:Thomasmann|talk]]) 16:26, 2 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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== "This has led to speculation regarding his sexual orientation." ==<br />
<br />
That is a true, but not a damning, statement. Perhaps that could be included somewhere? [[User:User4|User4]] ([[User talk:User4|talk]]) 17:21, 2 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:[[User4]], I think in order to say something like that, [[Etenne]] would want the speculation to be from some kind of mainstream newspaper or something. It's ok I think. I just revised the article completely leaving out any speculation or my own thoughts. It's just the facts posted there now. And you don't have to be a genius to see what the facts indicate here. This guy is '''without a doubt''', a 100% and complete _________. Personally, I hope we never can verify it through news media because the only reason that'd be in the news is if he got in trouble for something. He's one of my very favorite directors. I want him to stay save and making excellent movies with cute boys for the rest of my days. [[User:Thomasmann|Thomasmann]] ([[User talk:Thomasmann|talk]]) 17:47, 2 May 2016 (UTC)</div>Thomasmannhttps://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=Talk:Wes_Anderson&diff=35216Talk:Wes Anderson2016-05-02T16:26:16Z<p>Thomasmann: </p>
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<div>[[Wes_Anderson#Boylover.3F|Speculating]] if someone who has not come out as a BL can be a dangerous and potentially libelous. Plus, I feel strongly that we should not engage in that. Is there a way you can reword the intro to that section to make it a little less inflammatory and make it focus more on that the man enjoys working with boys etc.. and has many boys in his films and let people draw their own conclusion for that? BTW, thanks for all you work. As I am sure User4 will tell you, I am not a big "thank you' kind of guy" or a flatterer.. just know that your efforts are appreciated. --[[Etenne]] [[File:BLSmileyface.png|50 px|link=Etenne]] 12:31, 2 May 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:Ok, I will find a way to rework it without the speculation. [[User:Thomasmann|Thomasmann]] ([[User talk:Thomasmann|talk]]) 16:26, 2 May 2016 (UTC)</div>Thomasmannhttps://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=Boychat&diff=35147Boychat2016-05-02T12:03:56Z<p>Thomasmann: Redirected page to BoyChat</p>
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<div>#REDIRECT [[BoyChat]]</div>Thomasmannhttps://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=Ivan_Noel&diff=35143Ivan Noel2016-05-02T11:44:10Z<p>Thomasmann: /* External links */</p>
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<div>Ivan Noel is an Spanish producer and director, known for [[They Returned]] (2015), [[En tu Ausencia ]] (2008) and [[Primaria]] (2010). He originally started in the arts by writing and performing his own musical compositions. The transition from music to film came from his love for combining and juxtaposing the two art forms in order to make something greater than the two by themselves.<br />
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{{quote|“I was having a hard time finding the sort of films to put my own music to, so I began shooting small scenes for specific pieces of mine. From small scenes I made short movies, then eventually went on to write and produce feature films. All that just to showcase my music! There must have been a cheaper way, but it was more fun this way.”<br />
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–Ivan Noel<ref>http://www.noelfilms.com/about/</ref>}}<br />
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Since those first small scenes, he has gone on to release six feature films. All of the movies, despite their different plots, characters, and other thematic elements, share the commonality of confronting moral issues without yielding to the conventions of political correctness.<br />
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== Early Life ==<br />
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Noel was born in 1968 in Beruit. His mother is Australian and his father is French. He speaks four languages.<ref>http://www.semanarioprimerdiacom.ar/2012/03/con-ninos-actores-locales-se-viene.html</ref> His family was well-to-do but "nomadic resulting in him attending 8 different schools and living in 12 different countries.<ref>http://www.artsploitationfilms.com/film/children-of-the-night/</ref> <br />
{{quote|I started taking pictures when I was about 9 or 10. Then I bought an 8mm camera, and started shooting immediately. It was a very violent film about social injustice, acted by a crazed (11-year-old) beggar who had had enough. He took out his frustration by banging his head against tree trunks. It was a rather loose script and involved about 200 children from my own school (Lancing College), and was shot during playtime. It ended with the protagonist’s insane run through town and forest, ending when he (my best friend) bangs against a dead-end traffic sign."<ref>http://www.theskykid.com/exclusive-interview-director-ivan-noel-of-en-tu-ausencia/</ref>}}<br />
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He has a BA in education and composing soundtracks from the University of York and began his career as professor in the field of music, composing and giving concerts as a solo classical guitarist and piano player.<br />
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== Film making==<br />
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Noel entered the audiovisual world first through the production of short films. He won important prizes in Europe both for his photography (Best New Artists at the Petit Palais’ ‘Salon d’Automn’ exhibitions, Paris), but also his compositions (finalist winner of the British Songwriting competition in 2006.<ref>http://www.artsploitationfilms.com/film/children-of-the-night</ref> In 2006 he decided to sell his house to finance the filming of his first feature film, [[In your absence]] ( 2008 ). About that film he said he is in debt to the realism of director Ken Loach . This film was shot between Jerez and the Sierra de Cádiz. It was a low budget production made with unknown actors, but it woke the interest of critics. The film was featured in several festivals, including Vancouver , Palm Springs , Chicago, Bahamas, Athens , etc. In Vancouver the film finished fifth out of more than 200 films. Vanguard International Cinema distributed the film in North America, and it came to be among the top ten Spanish best sellers DVDs by this company. Interestingly, the film has not been released or distributed in Spain. In 2007 Ivan was interviewed by [[Destroyer Magazine]] for issue 03.<ref>http://destroyerjournal.com/about</ref><br />
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For the next project, the director moved to a town of Seville, Lebrija. He lived there for a year to study the local people so that cast them correctly. For funding, Noel, lacking a budget, raised the money through sponsorships and donations. He arranged free rentals of shooting locations and the actors volunteered to work for free. It was recorded during the summer of 2008, and was released in 2009 with the title of [[Brecha]]. The film was received with great enthusiasm in it's early premieres. <br />
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In 2010 he released [[Primary!]], his third feature film. He shot it in the school San Francisco de Paula in Seville. He spent a year there teaching the children art. Since it was the first time in film making history that the same teacher of the children was also their director in a film, Noel believed that this would increase the naturalness in the representation of scenes by the child actors, creating a very favorable context to get real emotions and situations experienced. In this sense, Noel likes to say this film is "a story with children where nothing is invented, even the most unlikely thing."<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/http://www.noticiasaljarafe.es/noticia.php?id=2490</ref> Noel defines the film as "a comedy about the bowels of the primary starring three students, Jose Joaquin, Carlos and Carmen." The film also portrays the life of the faculty, focusing mainly on three of them. Noel manages to convey the personal lives of these teachers beyond their work without reaching the use of narration.<br />
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With [[Vuelve]], released in 2012, Noel gives a twist to his career with a thriller horror. Filmed in Argentina , it is about a boy who loses his mother under strange circumstances. She communicates with him from beyond the grave, seeking a reunion. With this film Noel departed from his realistic and intimate style, seeming to seek commercial success.<br />
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His next project, [[Limbo]], released in 2013, follows the same style as [[Vuelve]]. In these last two films, childhood is no longer the main theme but rather he is using his films as a means to impact the viewer.<br />
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Noel has also made video clips. In 2012 Sigur Ros had a contest asking film makers to shot a video of a song from their new album. The winner received $5,000 and international exposure by having the video shown on the band's site. Noel's video won the contest.<br />
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When asked about how he responds to the controversy surrounding his films he said:{{quote|So why is my film deemed controversial? …Dear God, today taking a picture of your own baby child in the bath is controversial! Silly, silly values of a society gone slightly nuts: complete loss of references: hysteria that is causing voluntary amnesia about what being young was about. Again, the predominance of morally regressive values, from a bored and overly wealthy society that has nothing other to do than point fingers just to exist, and score more socially correct points than the neighbor.<ref>http://www.theskykid.com/exclusive-interview-director-ivan-noel-of-en-tu-ausencia/</ref>}}<br />
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== List of Films ==<br />
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*[[En tu Ausencia]] (English: [[In Your Absence]]) (2008)<br />
*[[Brecha]] (2009)<br />
*[[Primaria]] (English: [[Primary!]]) (2010)<br />
*[[Vuelve]] (2013)<br />
*[[Limbo]] (English: [[Children of the Night]] (2014)<br />
*[[Ellos Volvieron]] (English: [[They Returned]]) (2015)<br />
*[[Rodillas Quemadas]] (English: [[Burnt Knees]])(Currently in production)<br />
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==See also==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[http://www.noelfilms.com Official Site]<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/user/yyyyyves Official YouTube channel]<br />
*[https://vimeo.com/user2068991 vimeo channel]<br />
*[https://www.facebook.com/Ivan-Noel-1586561354891067/ facebook]<br />
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<div>Ivan Noel is an Spanish producer and director, known for [[They Returned]] (2015), [[En tu Ausencia ]] (2008) and [[Primaria]] (2010). He originally started in the arts by writing and performing his own musical compositions. The transition from music to film came from his love for combining and juxtaposing the two art forms in order to make something greater than the two by themselves.<br />
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{{quote|“I was having a hard time finding the sort of films to put my own music to, so I began shooting small scenes for specific pieces of mine. From small scenes I made short movies, then eventually went on to write and produce feature films. All that just to showcase my music! There must have been a cheaper way, but it was more fun this way.”<br />
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–Ivan Noel<ref>http://www.noelfilms.com/about/</ref>}}<br />
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Since those first small scenes, he has gone on to release six feature films. All of the movies, despite their different plots, characters, and other thematic elements, share the commonality of confronting moral issues without yielding to the conventions of political correctness.<br />
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== Early Life ==<br />
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Noel was born in 1968 in Beruit. His mother is Australian and his father is French. He speaks four languages.<ref>http://www.semanarioprimerdiacom.ar/2012/03/con-ninos-actores-locales-se-viene.html</ref> His family was well-to-do but "nomadic resulting in him attending 8 different schools and living in 12 different countries.<ref>http://www.artsploitationfilms.com/film/children-of-the-night/</ref> <br />
{{quote|I started taking pictures when I was about 9 or 10. Then I bought an 8mm camera, and started shooting immediately. It was a very violent film about social injustice, acted by a crazed (11-year-old) beggar who had had enough. He took out his frustration by banging his head against tree trunks. It was a rather loose script and involved about 200 children from my own school (Lancing College), and was shot during playtime. It ended with the protagonist’s insane run through town and forest, ending when he (my best friend) bangs against a dead-end traffic sign."<ref>http://www.theskykid.com/exclusive-interview-director-ivan-noel-of-en-tu-ausencia/</ref>}}<br />
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He has a BA in education and composing soundtracks from the University of York and began his career as professor in the field of music, composing and giving concerts as a solo classical guitarist and piano player.<br />
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== Film making==<br />
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Noel entered the audiovisual world first through the production of short films. He won important prizes in Europe both for his photography (Best New Artists at the Petit Palais’ ‘Salon d’Automn’ exhibitions, Paris), but also his compositions (finalist winner of the British Songwriting competition in 2006.<ref>http://www.artsploitationfilms.com/film/children-of-the-night</ref> In 2006 he decided to sell his house to finance the filming of his first feature film, [[In your absence]] ( 2008 ). About that film he said he is in debt to the realism of director Ken Loach . This film was shot between Jerez and the Sierra de Cádiz. It was a low budget production made with unknown actors, but it woke the interest of critics. The film was featured in several festivals, including Vancouver , Palm Springs , Chicago, Bahamas, Athens , etc. In Vancouver the film finished fifth out of more than 200 films. Vanguard International Cinema distributed the film in North America, and it came to be among the top ten Spanish best sellers DVDs by this company. Interestingly, the film has not been released or distributed in Spain. In 2007 Ivan was interviewed by [[Destroyer Magazine]] for issue 03.<ref>http://destroyerjournal.com/about</ref><br />
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For the next project, the director moved to a town of Seville, Lebrija. He lived there for a year to study the local people so that cast them correctly. For funding, Noel, lacking a budget, raised the money through sponsorships and donations. He arranged free rentals of shooting locations and the actors volunteered to work for free. It was recorded during the summer of 2008, and was released in 2009 with the title of [[Brecha]]. The film was received with great enthusiasm in it's early premieres. <br />
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In 2010 he released [[Primary!]], his third feature film. He shot it in the school San Francisco de Paula in Seville. He spent a year there teaching the children art. Since it was the first time in film making history that the same teacher of the children was also their director in a film, Noel believed that this would increase the naturalness in the representation of scenes by the child actors, creating a very favorable context to get real emotions and situations experienced. In this sense, Noel likes to say this film is "a story with children where nothing is invented, even the most unlikely thing."<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/http://www.noticiasaljarafe.es/noticia.php?id=2490</ref> Noel defines the film as "a comedy about the bowels of the primary starring three students, Jose Joaquin, Carlos and Carmen." The film also portrays the life of the faculty, focusing mainly on three of them. Noel manages to convey the personal lives of these teachers beyond their work without reaching the use of narration.<br />
<br />
With [[Vuelve]], released in 2012, Noel gives a twist to his career with a thriller horror. Filmed in Argentina , it is about a boy who loses his mother under strange circumstances. She communicates with him from beyond the grave, seeking a reunion. With this film Noel departed from his realistic and intimate style, seeming to seek commercial success.<br />
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His next project, [[Limbo]], released in 2013, follows the same style as [[Vuelve]]. In these last two films, childhood is no longer the main theme but rather he is using his films as a means to impact the viewer.<br />
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Noel has also made video clips. In 2012 Sigur Ros had a contest asking film makers to shot a video of a song from their new album. The winner received $5,000 and international exposure by having the video shown on the band's site. Noel's video won the contest.<br />
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When asked about how he responds to the controversy surrounding his films he said:{{quote|So why is my film deemed controversial? …Dear God, today taking a picture of your own baby child in the bath is controversial! Silly, silly values of a society gone slightly nuts: complete loss of references: hysteria that is causing voluntary amnesia about what being young was about. Again, the predominance of morally regressive values, from a bored and overly wealthy society that has nothing other to do than point fingers just to exist, and score more socially correct points than the neighbor.<ref>http://www.theskykid.com/exclusive-interview-director-ivan-noel-of-en-tu-ausencia/</ref>}}<br />
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== List of Films ==<br />
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*[[En tu Ausencia]] (English: [[In Your Absence]]) (2008)<br />
*[[Brecha]] (2009)<br />
*[[Primaria]] (English: [[Primary!]]) (2010)<br />
*[[Vuelve]] (2013)<br />
*[[Limbo]] (English: [[Children of the Night]] (2014)<br />
*[[Ellos Volvieron]] (English: [[They Returned]]) (2015)<br />
*[[Rodillas Quemadas]] (English: [[Burnt Knees]])(Currently in production)<br />
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{{Navbox Ivan Noel films}}<br />
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==See also==<br />
[[BoyLovers as film producers/directors]]<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*http://www.noelfilms.com<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/user/yyyyyves Official YouTube channel]<br />
*[https://vimeo.com/user2068991 vimeo channel]<br />
*[https://www.facebook.com/Ivan-Noel-1586561354891067/ facebook]<br />
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== References ==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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<div>[[Iván Noel]] has demonstrated that films ''can'' be produced very inexpensively, and that these films ''can'' carry messages counter to those which are socially acceptable (and "politically correct") about young people and their sexuality.<br />
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:"Each genre in the cinema can be characterized using a few selected titles. A few years after its release – [[En Tu Ausencia]] (the independent feature film [by Ivan Noel]), earned its place among the films that first comes into one’s mind when the coming of age genre is mentioned. The film attracted a lot of attention and interest, which resulted in its becoming one of the Spanish films with notable sales in North America.<ref>http://www.theskykid.com/exclusive-interview-director-ivan-noel-of-en-tu-ausencia/</ref><br />
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==Quotes from Iván Noel==<br />
"There was no marketing campaign at all [for "En Tu Ausencia"]. Not of any sort. The reason for its relative success I guess has to do with the fact that I told a story no one would ever touch with a 10-foot barge-pole. Talking of preteen (and even teen) sexuality is wrecking your film’s chances at larger release. The odd thing is that, in actual fact, many people seek out the different, the true, the honest, and also pretty boys, though they don’t admit it. And the very few films that avoid those adult, socially correct, and moralistic filters tend to get noticed."<br />
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"…Dear God, today taking a picture of your own baby child in the bath is controversial! Silly, silly values of a society gone slightly nuts: complete loss of references: hysteria that is causing voluntary amnesia about what being young was about. Again, the predominance of morally regressive values, from a bored and overly wealthy society that has nothing other to do than point fingers just to exist, and score more socially correct points than the neighbor.<br />
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The worst of it, the most inexcusable and shocking, is that even artists these days partake of that silly game. We live in a new type of Victorian age, and as we now laugh at how they used to cover the legs of pianos, and dress horses up, we will be the laughing stock of future generations."<br />
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"If you mean by coming of age that moment in life when one ‘discovers life, sexuality, betrayal etc.’, then of course it is quite impossible for a mainstream film to portray that. Telling the truth, in some instances would have the director shipped off to some shock treatment. I mean, tell the truth about preteen’s discovery of sexuality? Impossible! There’d have to be at least five masturbation scenes daily for it to come close to any sort reality."<br />
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"When I was 11, me and all my friends would spend weekends happily playing with each other. When’s the last time you saw that in a film? To put in film what young teens ACTUALLY think, feel, and do is something probably not yet fully achieved, and will be for another country, in another age, on another planet, with another religion."<br />
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"You deal with films starring youths. Your audience is sensitive and empathetic towards such characters and stories. The complaints are always the same: there are too few movies that actually tell REAL stories. Too many ‘candy floss, peck-on-the-cheek’ stories, which in actual fact, only nuns relate to. Real films are subject to too much ridiculous censorship. My message is this: make the films anyway!<br />
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Make REAL films! To hell with the stereotype nonsense. You enjoy movies, make one yourself now. In case some have not noticed, cinema has just undergone a fabulous new complete makeover. A major event has happened, a turning of the tables. The one most important moment of history of cinema has just taken place! It’s called ‘digital’! You can make a feature, and an award-winning feature, with a simple SLR camera (I did, in all my films!). You don’t need an army to make a film, that’s nonsense invented by an industry that had too much money on its hands. I’ve never made a film with more than five people on the tech team.<br />
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No film of mine cost more than the price of a ‘Ka’ car. Brecha in fact, cost less than nothing, as I had to steal the DVD tapes to make it. Never has making films been this accessible, and with such outstanding tools at our disposal. Let’s not complain anymore, let’s not find reasons not to make it (moral reasons, finance reasons, etc.). Create a new purely 100% indie market which will, finally (since the 70’s and 80’s) offer us some REAL stories, daring ones, necessary ones. Art changes things in life more than anything else!"<ref>http://www.theskykid.com/exclusive-interview-director-ivan-noel-of-en-tu-ausencia/</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Ivan Noel]]<br />
*[[En tu Ausencia (film)]]<br />
*[[Brecha (film)]]<br />
*[[¡Primaria! (film)]]<br />
*[[Vuelve (film)]]<br />
*[[Limbo (film)]]<br />
*[[Ellos Volvieron (film)]]<br />
*[[Rodillas Quemadas (film) ]]<br />
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*Exclusive Interview: Director Ivan Noel of "En Tu Ausencia"<br />
:http://www.theskykid.com/exclusive-interview-director-ivan-noel-of-en-tu-ausencia/<br />
*More information about Iván Noel (including many quotes from him) and about the production of his films (all in Spanish) may be found here: <br />
:http://www.semanarioprimerdia.com.ar/search/label/ivan%20noel?&max-results=7<br />
*$30 Film School: How to write, direct, produce, shoot, edit, distribute, tour with, and sell your own no-budget DIGITAL movie by Michael W. Dean (Read on-line):<br />
:http://bookre.org/reader?file=491480<br />
*What They Don't Teach You at Film School: 161 Strategies For Making Your Own Movies No Matter What<br />
:http://dl.lux.bookfi.net/genesis/496000/bb144044c5f09200cd188ccbe8da379d/_as/What_They_Don't_Teach_You_at_Film_School.pdf<br />
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'''Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten''', (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British classical music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces. His best-known works include the opera '''Peter Grimes''' (1945), the '''War Requiem''' (1962) and the orchestral showpiece '''The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra''' (1945).<br />
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Born in Suffolk, the son of a dentist, Britten showed talent from an early age. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London and privately with the composer Frank Bridge. Britten first came to public attention with the ''a cappella'' choral work ''A Boy was Born'' in 1934. With the premiere of ''Peter Grimes'' in 1945, he leapt to international fame. Over the next 28 years, he wrote 14 more operas, establishing himself as one of the leading 20th-century composers in the genre. In addition to large-scale operas for Sadler's Wells and Covent Garden, he wrote "chamber operas" for small forces, suitable for performance in venues of modest size. Among the best known of these is '''The Turn of the Screw''' (1954). Recurring themes in the operas are the struggle of an outsider against a hostile society, and the corruption of innocence.<br />
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Britten's other works range from orchestral to choral, solo vocal, chamber and instrumental as well as film music. He took a great interest in writing music for children and amateur performers, including the opera '''Noye's Fludde''', a '''Missa Brevis''', and the song collection '''Friday Afternoons'''. He often composed with particular performers in mind. His most frequent and important muse was his personal and professional partner, the Peter Pears. Britten was a celebrated pianist and conductor, performing many of his own works in concert and on record. He also performed and recorded works by others, such as Johann Sebastian Bach's '''Brandenburg concertos''', Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's symphonies, and song cycles by Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann.<br />
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Together with Pears and the librettist and producer Eric Crozier, Britten founded the annual Aldeburgh Festival in 1948, and he was responsible for the creation of Snape Maltings concert hall in 1967. In his last year, he was the first composer to be given a life peer age.<br />
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Throughout his adult life, Britten had a particular rapport with children and enjoyed close friendships with several boys, particularly those in their early teens. The writer John Bridcut sees significance in evidence that Britten mentally regarded himself as perpetually 13 years old. Bridcut views this as manifest both in the Letts diaries Britten bought and used well into his adult life, in which he wrote several statistics relevant to himself when that age,<ref>Bridcut (2006), pp. 1–2</ref> and in his remark to Imogen Holst, "I'm still thirteen".<ref>Bridcut (2006), p. 8</ref> The first such friendship was with Piers Dunkerley, 13 years old in 1934 when Britten was aged 20.<ref>Bridcut (2006), p. 3</ref> Other boys Britten befriended were the young David Hemmings and Michael Crawford, both of whom sang treble roles in his works in the 1950s.<ref>Bridcut (2006), plate 13; and Carpenter, pp. 356–358 and 385</ref> Hemmings later said, "In all of the time that I spent with him he never abused that trust", and Crawford wrote "I cannot say enough about the kindness of that great man... he had a wonderful patience and affinity with young people. He loved music, and loved youngsters caring about music."<br />
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The composer met the thirteen year old son of Hermann Scherchen in 1934. Their relationship lasted six years, and inspired at least one major work, '''Young Apollo'''.<ref>Lie back and think of Britten "Adam Mars-Jones finds that John Bridcut has set himself a daunting task in Britten's Children - to prove whether 'Darling Benjamin' was a mentor or a menace to boys" Sunday June 4, 2006; The Observer [9]</ref><br />
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Britten also slept with 13 year old Bobby Rothman: {{quote| "When Britten stayed with the Rothman family, he shared a room with the thirteen-year-old Bobby:<br />
many an evening we used to spend […] a lot of time just really talking he in the bed next to me […] His fondness for me was something that was beyond my normal social connections, and I was a little overwhelmed that someone should be so fond of me […] I can still remember us talking late at night one time, and finding when it was really time to call it quits and go to sleep […] he said, ‘Bobby, would you mind terribly if, before we fell asleep, I came over and gave you a hug and a kiss?’ It was just one of those touching moments […] And I’ve got to say I really did not know what to do except say, ‘no, no I don’t mind’, and he gently got up and gave me a gentle hug and kiss and said goodnight.<ref>cite book |last1=Mitchell D. |first1=Reed P. |title=Letters from a Life Volume 3 (1946-1951): The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten |date=2011 |publisher=Faber & Faber |asin=B008E5PYZY |pages=784 |accessdate=27 April 2016</ref>}}<br />
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It was long suspected by several of Britten's close associates that there was something exceptional about his attraction to boys: Auden referred to Britten's "attraction to thin-as-a-board juveniles;... to the sexless and innocent",<ref>Carpenter, p. 164</ref> and Pears once wrote to Britten: "remember there are lovely things in the world still– children, boys, sunshine, the sea, Mozart, you and me".<ref>Bridcut (2006), p. 6</ref> In public, the matter was little discussed during Britten's lifetime and much discussed after it.The journalist Martin Kettle wrote in 2012 that although there is no evidence of wrongful conduct, it is important that allegations of [[pedophilia]] be openly discussed, both to avoid covering up criminal behavior and to avoid oversimplifying the complexity of Britten's sexuality and creativity.<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/21/britten-boys-obsession-cannot-ignore</ref> Carpenter's 1992 biography closely examined the evidence, as do later studies of Britten, most particularly John Bridcut's '''Britten's Children''' (2006), which concentrates on Britten’s friendships and relationships with various children and adolescents. Some commentators have continued to question Britten's conduct, sometimes very sharply.<ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/biographyandmemoirreviews/9857511/Benjamin-Britten-by-Paul-Kildea-review.html</ref><ref>http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/richardmorrison/article2045275.ece</ref> Carpenter and Bridcut conclude that he held any sexual impulses under firm control and kept the relationships affectionate, including bed-sharing, kissing and skinny dipping, but strictly platonic.<ref>http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:UKNB:GRDC&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=1129E6B3B2F7A350&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=102CDD40F14C6BDA</ref> <ref>http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:UKNB:DSTC&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=11234EEF7B59EC88&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=102CDD40F14C6BDA</ref><br />
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In the writing "This Day In Pedo History: February 25" it states:{{quote| <br />
*1935 - '''"I write the songs that make the young boys sing"''' - Britten's a cappella choral composition called A Boy Was Born had its debut performance on this date. Being the good pedo that he was, he composed it specifically to be performed, in part, by a boys choir. This was one of his first major works to receive critical acclaim, and helped to fully launch his career. The title might suggest to some a pedoish theme to the piece, but in fact it refers to the birth of Jesus, the story of a completely different type of boy worship.<ref name="tdiphfeb25">{{cite news |author= Author unknown|title=''This Day In Pedo History: February 25'' |date=2003 |accessdate= 3-10-15}} </ref> }}<br />
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*[https://www.boywiki.org/en/Historical_boylove_relationships#20th_century Historical boylove relationships]<br />
*[[Pederastic Relationships in History]]<br />
*[[Pederasty in the modern world]]<br />
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'''Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten''', (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British classical music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces. His best-known works include the opera '''Peter Grimes''' (1945), the '''War Requiem''' (1962) and the orchestral showpiece '''The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra''' (1945).<br />
<br />
Born in Suffolk, the son of a dentist, Britten showed talent from an early age. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London and privately with the composer Frank Bridge. Britten first came to public attention with the ''a cappella'' choral work ''A Boy was Born'' in 1934. With the premiere of ''Peter Grimes'' in 1945, he leapt to international fame. Over the next 28 years, he wrote 14 more operas, establishing himself as one of the leading 20th-century composers in the genre. In addition to large-scale operas for Sadler's Wells and Covent Garden, he wrote "chamber operas" for small forces, suitable for performance in venues of modest size. Among the best known of these is '''The Turn of the Screw''' (1954). Recurring themes in the operas are the struggle of an outsider against a hostile society, and the corruption of innocence.<br />
<br />
Britten's other works range from orchestral to choral, solo vocal, chamber and instrumental as well as film music. He took a great interest in writing music for children and amateur performers, including the opera '''Noye's Fludde''', a '''Missa Brevis''', and the song collection '''Friday Afternoons'''. He often composed with particular performers in mind. His most frequent and important muse was his personal and professional partner, the Peter Pears. Britten was a celebrated pianist and conductor, performing many of his own works in concert and on record. He also performed and recorded works by others, such as Johann Sebastian Bach's '''Brandenburg concertos''', Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's symphonies, and song cycles by Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann.<br />
<br />
Together with Pears and the librettist and producer Eric Crozier, Britten founded the annual Aldeburgh Festival in 1948, and he was responsible for the creation of Snape Maltings concert hall in 1967. In his last year, he was the first composer to be given a life peer age.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Boylove ==<br />
<br />
Throughout his adult life, Britten had a particular rapport with children and enjoyed close friendships with several boys, particularly those in their early teens. The writer John Bridcut sees significance in evidence that Britten mentally regarded himself as perpetually 13 years old. Bridcut views this as manifest both in the Letts diaries Britten bought and used well into his adult life, in which he wrote several statistics relevant to himself when that age,<ref>Bridcut (2006), pp. 1–2</ref> and in his remark to Imogen Holst, "I'm still thirteen".<ref>Bridcut (2006), p. 8</ref> The first such friendship was with Piers Dunkerley, 13 years old in 1934 when Britten was aged 20.<ref>Bridcut (2006), p. 3</ref> Other boys Britten befriended were the young David Hemmings and Michael Crawford, both of whom sang treble roles in his works in the 1950s.<ref>Bridcut (2006), plate 13; and Carpenter, pp. 356–358 and 385</ref> Hemmings later said, "In all of the time that I spent with him he never abused that trust", and Crawford wrote "I cannot say enough about the kindness of that great man... he had a wonderful patience and affinity with young people. He loved music, and loved youngsters caring about music."<br />
<br />
The composer met the thirteen year old son of Hermann Scherchen in 1934. Their relationship lasted six years, and inspired at least one major work, '''Young Apollo'''.<ref>Lie back and think of Britten "Adam Mars-Jones finds that John Bridcut has set himself a daunting task in Britten's Children - to prove whether 'Darling Benjamin' was a mentor or a menace to boys" Sunday June 4, 2006; The Observer [9]</ref><br />
<br />
Britten also slept with 13 year old Bobby Rothman: {{quote| "When Britten stayed with the Rothman family, he shared a room with the thirteen-year-old Bobby:<br />
many an evening we used to spend […] a lot of time just really talking he in the bed next to me […] His fondness for me was something that was beyond my normal social connections, and I was a little overwhelmed that someone should be so fond of me […] I can still remember us talking late at night one time, and finding when it was really time to call it quits and go to sleep […] he said, ‘Bobby, would you mind terribly if, before we fell asleep, I came over and gave you a hug and a kiss?’ It was just one of those touching moments […] And I’ve got to say I really did not know what to do except say, ‘no, no I don’t mind’, and he gently got up and gave me a gentle hug and kiss and said goodnight.<ref>cite book |last1=Mitchell D. |first1=Reed P. |title=Letters from a Life Volume 3 (1946-1951): The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten |date=2011 |publisher=Faber & Faber |asin=B008E5PYZY |pages=784 |accessdate=27 April 2016</ref>}}<br />
<br />
It was long suspected by several of Britten's close associates that there was something exceptional about his attraction to boys: Auden referred to Britten's "attraction to thin-as-a-board juveniles;... to the sexless and innocent",<ref>Carpenter, p. 164</ref> and Pears once wrote to Britten: "remember there are lovely things in the world still– children, boys, sunshine, the sea, Mozart, you and me".<ref>Bridcut (2006), p. 6</ref> In public, the matter was little discussed during Britten's lifetime and much discussed after it.The journalist Martin Kettle wrote in 2012 that although there is no evidence of wrongful conduct, it is important that allegations of [[pedophilia]] be openly discussed, both to avoid covering up criminal behavior and to avoid oversimplifying the complexity of Britten's sexuality and creativity.<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/21/britten-boys-obsession-cannot-ignore</ref> Carpenter's 1992 biography closely examined the evidence, as do later studies of Britten, most particularly John Bridcut's '''Britten's Children''' (2006), which concentrates on Britten’s friendships and relationships with various children and adolescents. Some commentators have continued to question Britten's conduct, sometimes very sharply.<ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/biographyandmemoirreviews/9857511/Benjamin-Britten-by-Paul-Kildea-review.html</ref><ref>http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/richardmorrison/article2045275.ece</ref> Carpenter and Bridcut conclude that he held any sexual impulses under firm control and kept the relationships affectionate, including bed-sharing, kissing and skinny dipping, but strictly platonic.<ref>http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:UKNB:GRDC&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=1129E6B3B2F7A350&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=102CDD40F14C6BDA</ref> <ref>http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:UKNB:DSTC&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=11234EEF7B59EC88&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=102CDD40F14C6BDA</ref><br />
<br />
In the writing "This Day In Pedo History: February 25" it states:{{quote| <br />
*1935 - '''"I write the songs that make the young boys sing"''' - Britten's a cappella choral composition called A Boy Was Born had its debut performance on this date. Being the good pedo that he was, he composed it specifically to be performed, in part, by a boys choir. This was one of his first major works to receive critical acclaim, and helped to fully launch his career. The title might suggest to some a pedoish theme to the piece, but in fact it refers to the birth of Jesus, the story of a completely different type of boy worship.<ref name="tdiphfeb25">{{cite news |author= Author unknown|title=''This Day In Pedo History: February 25'' |date=2003 |accessdate= 3-10-15}} </ref> }}<br />
<br />
== See Also ==<br />
*[https://www.boywiki.org/en/Historical_boylove_relationships#20th_century Historical boylove relationships]<br />
*[[Pederastic Relationships in History]]<br />
*[[Pederasty in the modern world]]<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Twentieth century boylovers|Benjamin Britten]]<br />
[[Category:Art|Benjamin Britten]]<br />
[[Category:Theater|Benjamin Britten]]<br />
[[Category:1913 births|Benjamin Britten]]<br />
[[Category:BoyLover history|Benjamin Britten]]</div>Thomasmannhttps://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=Benjamin_Britten&diff=35132Benjamin Britten2016-05-02T11:08:11Z<p>Thomasmann: </p>
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'''Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten''', (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British classical music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces. His best-known works include the opera '''Peter Grimes''' (1945), the '''War Requiem''' (1962) and the orchestral showpiece '''The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra''' (1945).<br />
<br />
Born in Suffolk, the son of a dentist, Britten showed talent from an early age. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London and privately with the composer Frank Bridge. Britten first came to public attention with the ''a cappella'' choral work ''A Boy was Born'' in 1934. With the premiere of ''Peter Grimes'' in 1945, he leapt to international fame. Over the next 28 years, he wrote 14 more operas, establishing himself as one of the leading 20th-century composers in the genre. In addition to large-scale operas for Sadler's Wells and Covent Garden, he wrote "chamber operas" for small forces, suitable for performance in venues of modest size. Among the best known of these is '''The Turn of the Screw''' (1954). Recurring themes in the operas are the struggle of an outsider against a hostile society, and the corruption of innocence.<br />
<br />
Britten's other works range from orchestral to choral, solo vocal, chamber and instrumental as well as film music. He took a great interest in writing music for children and amateur performers, including the opera '''Noye's Fludde''', a '''Missa Brevis''', and the song collection '''Friday Afternoons'''. He often composed with particular performers in mind. His most frequent and important muse was his personal and professional partner, the Peter Pears. Britten was a celebrated pianist and conductor, performing many of his own works in concert and on record. He also performed and recorded works by others, such as Johann Sebastian Bach's '''Brandenburg concertos''', Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's symphonies, and song cycles by Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann.<br />
<br />
Together with Pears and the librettist and producer Eric Crozier, Britten founded the annual Aldeburgh Festival in 1948, and he was responsible for the creation of Snape Maltings concert hall in 1967. In his last year, he was the first composer to be given a life peer age.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Boylove ==<br />
<br />
Throughout his adult life, Britten had a particular rapport with children and enjoyed close friendships with several boys, particularly those in their early teens. The writer John Bridcut sees significance in evidence that Britten mentally regarded himself as perpetually 13 years old. Bridcut views this as manifest both in the Letts diaries Britten bought and used well into his adult life, in which he wrote several statistics relevant to himself when that age,<ref>Bridcut (2006), pp. 1–2</ref> and in his remark to Imogen Holst, "I'm still thirteen".<ref>Bridcut (2006), p. 8</ref> The first such friendship was with Piers Dunkerley, 13 years old in 1934 when Britten was aged 20.<ref>Bridcut (2006), p. 3</ref> Other boys Britten befriended were the young David Hemmings and Michael Crawford, both of whom sang treble roles in his works in the 1950s.<ref>Bridcut (2006), plate 13; and Carpenter, pp. 356–358 and 385</ref> Hemmings later said, "In all of the time that I spent with him he never abused that trust", and Crawford wrote "I cannot say enough about the kindness of that great man... he had a wonderful patience and affinity with young people. He loved music, and loved youngsters caring about music."<br />
<br />
The composer met the thirteen year old son of Hermann Scherchen in 1934. Their relationship lasted six years, and inspired at least one major work, '''Young Apollo'''.<ref>Lie back and think of Britten "Adam Mars-Jones finds that John Bridcut has set himself a daunting task in Britten's Children - to prove whether 'Darling Benjamin' was a mentor or a menace to boys" Sunday June 4, 2006; The Observer [9]</ref><br />
<br />
Britten also slept with 13 year old Bobby Rothman: {{quote| "When Britten stayed with the Rothman family, he shared a room with the thirteen-year-old Bobby:<br />
many an evening we used to spend […] a lot of time just really talking he in the bed next to me […] His fondness for me was something that was beyond my normal social connections, and I was a little overwhelmed that someone should be so fond of me […] I can still remember us talking late at night one time, and finding when it was really time to call it quits and go to sleep […] he said, ‘Bobby, would you mind terribly if, before we fell asleep, I came over and gave you a hug and a kiss?’ It was just one of those touching moments […] And I’ve got to say I really did not know what to do except say, ‘no, no I don’t mind’, and he gently got up and gave me a gentle hug and kiss and said goodnight.<ref>cite book |last1=Mitchell D. |first1=Reed P. |title=Letters from a Life Volume 3 (1946-1951): The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten |date=2011 |publisher=Faber & Faber |asin=B008E5PYZY |pages=784 |accessdate=27 April 2016</ref>}}<br />
<br />
It was long suspected by several of Britten's close associates that there was something exceptional about his attraction to boys: Auden referred to Britten's "attraction to thin-as-a-board juveniles;... to the sexless and innocent",<ref>Carpenter, p. 164</ref> and Pears once wrote to Britten: "remember there are lovely things in the world still– children, boys, sunshine, the sea, Mozart, you and me".<ref>Bridcut (2006), p. 6</ref> In public, the matter was little discussed during Britten's lifetime and much discussed after it.The journalist Martin Kettle wrote in 2012 that although there is no evidence of wrongful conduct, it is important that allegations of [[pedophilia]] be openly discussed, both to avoid covering up criminal behavior and to avoid oversimplifying the complexity of Britten's sexuality and creativity.<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/21/britten-boys-obsession-cannot-ignore</ref> Carpenter's 1992 biography closely examined the evidence, as do later studies of Britten, most particularly John Bridcut's '''Britten's Children''' (2006), which concentrates on Britten’s friendships and relationships with various children and adolescents. Some commentators have continued to question Britten's conduct, sometimes very sharply.<ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/biographyandmemoirreviews/9857511/Benjamin-Britten-by-Paul-Kildea-review.html</ref><ref>http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/richardmorrison/article2045275.ece</ref> Carpenter and Bridcut conclude that he held any sexual impulses under firm control and kept the relationships affectionate, including bed-sharing, kissing and skinny dipping, but strictly platonic.<ref>http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:UKNB:GRDC&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=1129E6B3B2F7A350&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=102CDD40F14C6BDA</ref> <ref>http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:UKNB:DSTC&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=11234EEF7B59EC88&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=102CDD40F14C6BDA</ref><br />
<br />
In the writing "This Day In Pedo History: February 25" it states:{{quote| <br />
*1935 - '''"I write the songs that make the young boys sing"''' - Britten's a cappella choral composition called A Boy Was Born had its debut performance on this date. Being the good pedo that he was, he composed it specifically to be performed, in part, by a boys choir. This was one of his first major works to receive critical acclaim, and helped to fully launch his career. The title might suggest to some a pedoish theme to the piece, but in fact it refers to the birth of Jesus, the story of a completely different type of boy worship.<ref name="tdiphfeb25">{{cite news |author= Author unknown|title=''This Day In Pedo History: February 25'' |date=2003 |accessdate= 3-10-15}} </ref> }}<br />
<br />
== See Also ==<br />
*[https://www.boywiki.org/en/Historical_boylove_relationships#20th_century Historical boylove relationships]<br />
*[[Pederastic Relationships in History]]<br />
*[[Pederasty in the modern world]]<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Twentieth century boylovers|Benjamin Britten]]<br />
[[Category:Art|Benjamin Britten]]<br />
[[Category:Theater|Benjamin Britten]]<br />
[[Category:1913 births|Benjamin Britten]]</div>Thomasmannhttps://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=Benjamin_Britten&diff=35131Benjamin Britten2016-05-02T11:04:29Z<p>Thomasmann: /* See Also */</p>
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<div><br />
'''Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten''', (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British classical music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces. His best-known works include the opera '''Peter Grimes''' (1945), the '''War Requiem''' (1962) and the orchestral showpiece '''The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra''' (1945).<br />
<br />
Born in Suffolk, the son of a dentist, Britten showed talent from an early age. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London and privately with the composer Frank Bridge. Britten first came to public attention with the ''a cappella'' choral work ''A Boy was Born'' in 1934. With the premiere of ''Peter Grimes'' in 1945, he leapt to international fame. Over the next 28 years, he wrote 14 more operas, establishing himself as one of the leading 20th-century composers in the genre. In addition to large-scale operas for Sadler's Wells and Covent Garden, he wrote "chamber operas" for small forces, suitable for performance in venues of modest size. Among the best known of these is '''The Turn of the Screw''' (1954). Recurring themes in the operas are the struggle of an outsider against a hostile society, and the corruption of innocence.<br />
<br />
Britten's other works range from orchestral to choral, solo vocal, chamber and instrumental as well as film music. He took a great interest in writing music for children and amateur performers, including the opera '''Noye's Fludde''', a '''Missa Brevis''', and the song collection '''Friday Afternoons'''. He often composed with particular performers in mind. His most frequent and important muse was his personal and professional partner, the Peter Pears. Britten was a celebrated pianist and conductor, performing many of his own works in concert and on record. He also performed and recorded works by others, such as Johann Sebastian Bach's '''Brandenburg concertos''', Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's symphonies, and song cycles by Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann.<br />
<br />
Together with Pears and the librettist and producer Eric Crozier, Britten founded the annual Aldeburgh Festival in 1948, and he was responsible for the creation of Snape Maltings concert hall in 1967. In his last year, he was the first composer to be given a life peer age.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Boylove ==<br />
<br />
Throughout his adult life, Britten had a particular rapport with children and enjoyed close friendships with several boys, particularly those in their early teens. The writer John Bridcut sees significance in evidence that Britten mentally regarded himself as perpetually 13 years old. Bridcut views this as manifest both in the Letts diaries Britten bought and used well into his adult life, in which he wrote several statistics relevant to himself when that age,<ref>Bridcut (2006), pp. 1–2</ref> and in his remark to Imogen Holst, "I'm still thirteen".<ref>Bridcut (2006), p. 8</ref> The first such friendship was with Piers Dunkerley, 13 years old in 1934 when Britten was aged 20.<ref>Bridcut (2006), p. 3</ref> Other boys Britten befriended were the young David Hemmings and Michael Crawford, both of whom sang treble roles in his works in the 1950s.<ref>Bridcut (2006), plate 13; and Carpenter, pp. 356–358 and 385</ref> Hemmings later said, "In all of the time that I spent with him he never abused that trust", and Crawford wrote "I cannot say enough about the kindness of that great man... he had a wonderful patience and affinity with young people. He loved music, and loved youngsters caring about music."<br />
<br />
The composer met the thirteen year old son of Hermann Scherchen in 1934. Their relationship lasted six years, and inspired at least one major work, '''Young Apollo'''.<ref>Lie back and think of Britten "Adam Mars-Jones finds that John Bridcut has set himself a daunting task in Britten's Children - to prove whether 'Darling Benjamin' was a mentor or a menace to boys" Sunday June 4, 2006; The Observer [9]</ref><br />
<br />
Britten also slept with 13 year old Bobby Rothman: {{quote| "When Britten stayed with the Rothman family, he shared a room with the thirteen-year-old Bobby:<br />
many an evening we used to spend […] a lot of time just really talking he in the bed next to me […] His fondness for me was something that was beyond my normal social connections, and I was a little overwhelmed that someone should be so fond of me […] I can still remember us talking late at night one time, and finding when it was really time to call it quits and go to sleep […] he said, ‘Bobby, would you mind terribly if, before we fell asleep, I came over and gave you a hug and a kiss?’ It was just one of those touching moments […] And I’ve got to say I really did not know what to do except say, ‘no, no I don’t mind’, and he gently got up and gave me a gentle hug and kiss and said goodnight.<ref>cite book |last1=Mitchell D. |first1=Reed P. |title=Letters from a Life Volume 3 (1946-1951): The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten |date=2011 |publisher=Faber & Faber |asin=B008E5PYZY |pages=784 |accessdate=27 April 2016</ref>}}<br />
<br />
It was long suspected by several of Britten's close associates that there was something exceptional about his attraction to boys: Auden referred to Britten's "attraction to thin-as-a-board juveniles;... to the sexless and innocent",<ref>Carpenter, p. 164</ref> and Pears once wrote to Britten: "remember there are lovely things in the world still– children, boys, sunshine, the sea, Mozart, you and me".<ref>Bridcut (2006), p. 6</ref> In public, the matter was little discussed during Britten's lifetime and much discussed after it.The journalist Martin Kettle wrote in 2012 that although there is no evidence of wrongful conduct, it is important that allegations of [[pedophilia]] be openly discussed, both to avoid covering up criminal behavior and to avoid oversimplifying the complexity of Britten's sexuality and creativity.<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/21/britten-boys-obsession-cannot-ignore</ref> Carpenter's 1992 biography closely examined the evidence, as do later studies of Britten, most particularly John Bridcut's '''Britten's Children''' (2006), which concentrates on Britten’s friendships and relationships with various children and adolescents. Some commentators have continued to question Britten's conduct, sometimes very sharply.<ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/biographyandmemoirreviews/9857511/Benjamin-Britten-by-Paul-Kildea-review.html</ref><ref>http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/richardmorrison/article2045275.ece</ref> Carpenter and Bridcut conclude that he held any sexual impulses under firm control and kept the relationships affectionate, including bed-sharing, kissing and skinny dipping, but strictly platonic.<ref>http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:UKNB:GRDC&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=1129E6B3B2F7A350&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=102CDD40F14C6BDA</ref> <ref>http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:UKNB:DSTC&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=11234EEF7B59EC88&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=102CDD40F14C6BDA</ref><br />
<br />
In the writing "This Day In Pedo History: February 25" it states:{{quote| <br />
*1935 - '''"I write the songs that make the young boys sing"''' - Britten's a cappella choral composition called A Boy Was Born had its debut performance on this date. Being the good pedo that he was, he composed it specifically to be performed, in part, by a boys choir. This was one of his first major works to receive critical acclaim, and helped to fully launch his career. The title might suggest to some a pedoish theme to the piece, but in fact it refers to the birth of Jesus, the story of a completely different type of boy worship.<ref name="tdiphfeb25">{{cite news |author= Author unknown|title=''This Day In Pedo History: February 25'' |date=2003 |accessdate= 3-10-15}} </ref> }}<br />
<br />
== See Also ==<br />
*[https://www.boywiki.org/en/Historical_boylove_relationships#20th_century Historical boylove relationships]<br />
*[[Pederastic Relationships in History]]<br />
*[[Pederasty in the modern world]]<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
{{reflist}}</div>Thomasmannhttps://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=Christopher_Robins_Child-Adult_Loving_List&diff=35130Christopher Robins Child-Adult Loving List2016-05-02T11:02:50Z<p>Thomasmann: </p>
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<div>: '''THIS ARTICLE REQUIRES CLEANUP'''<br />
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(NOTE: THIS ARTICLE SHOULD NOT BE RELIED UPON FOR LEGAL ADVICE. SOME OF THE ENTRIES ARE DATED, AND LAWS MAY HAVE CHANGED. -- BoyWiki Editor)<br />
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<h1>Christopher Robins Child-Adult Loving List</h1><br />
<br />
A resource-list and directory of positive and/or useful sources, and<br />
other useful information. (Version : April '94)<br />
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<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
<h2>Contents</h2><br />
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<ol><br />
<li>BOOKS<ol><br />
<li>General Books</li><br />
<li>Children's rights</li><br />
<li>Writers and literature</li><br />
<li>History</li><br />
<li>Accounts of attempts to set up self-help/campaigning paedophile group</li></ol><br />
</li><li>BIBLIOGRAPHIES<br />
</li><li>ARTICLES<ol><br />
<li>General articles</li><br />
<li>Articles in academic and professional journals</li><br />
<li>Articles on state censorship and art</li><br />
<li>Articles on 'satanic abuse'/false-memory syndrome</li></ol><br />
</li><li>MAGAZINES, NEWSLETTERS AND JOURNALS<br />
</li><li>NOW DEFUNCT MAGAZINES<br />
</li><li>FANZINES<br />
</li><li>EUROPEAN SELF-HELP GROUPS<br />
</li><li>PUBLISHERS<br />
</li><li>PHOTOGRAPHY<br />
</li><li>PAINTERS, ARTISTS AND ILLUSTRATORS<br />
</li><li>FEATURE FILMS<br />
</li><li>QUALITY FICTION/AUTOBIOGRAPHY/POETRY<br />
</li><li>SONGS<br />
</li><li>LEGAL REPRESENTATION<br />
</li><li>FAMOUS CHILD-LOVERS<br />
</li><li>ETHICAL GUIDELINES<br />
</li><li>AGES OF CONSENT IN MORE ENLIGHTENED COUNTRIES<br />
</li></ol><br />
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<hr><br />
<h3>BOOKS</h3><br />
<br />
<h3>General books</h3><br />
<br />
O'Carroll, T. Paedophilia; the radical case. Contemporary Social<br />
Issues Series, No. 12. Peter Owen. London, 1980. (The definitive<br />
positive book. Also has extensive bibliography, and history of the<br />
persectution of the Paedophile Information Exchange in Britain during<br />
the late 1970s and early 1980s. Large university and reference<br />
libraries may hold copies - or you can get copies - 22.00 DM - from<br />
Berlin's largest gay bookshop,'Prinz Eisenherz - see 'European groups'<br />
for the address)<br />
<br />
<br />
Bernard, F. Paedophilia - a factual report. Netherlands, Enclave, 1985. ISBN 90 71179 028. Enclave, Postbus 6591, NL 3002, AN Rotterdam, Netherlands.<br />
<br />
Best, Joel. Threatened Childen. University of Chicago Press,<br />
1993. (Good account of the history and hysteria surrounding the<br />
current panics about childen in the US)<br />
<br />
Brongersma, E. (ed.) Loving Boys - a multidisciplinary study of<br />
sexual relations between adults and minor males. GÄ.P. Amsterdam,<br />
1987/8. Vol. 1: ISBN 1 55741 001 8. Vol. 2: ISBN 1 55741 001<br />
1. (Available from Global Academic Publishers. Postbus 2 2167,<br />
NL.1100, KD Amsterdam, Netherlands)<br />
<br />
Cook, M. and Howells, K. Adult Sexual Interest In Children.<br />
London. Academic Press, 1981. (An interesting attempt to provide an<br />
overview of both sociological and 'medical' facts and figures relating<br />
to the sexual, rather than the emotional, aspects o f paedophilia.<br />
Most of the articles are from a non-judgmental perspective, and the<br />
existence of sexual feelings in many children is positively<br />
acknowledged)<br />
<br />
Constantine, L. and Martinson, F. Children And Sex - new<br />
findings, new perspectives. Little Brown and Co. Boston, 1981. ISBN<br />
0 316 15335 1. (Massive interdisciplinary collection of academic<br />
articles. Starts from the premise that most children are sexual<br />
beings, and although neglecting the emotional aspects of adult-child<br />
relationships, this is a useful collection of academic<br />
literature-surveys and original research)<br />
<br />
Eberle, P. and Eberle, S. Abuse Of Innocence. Ophelia Editions.<br />
(A critical look at recent cases in the U.SÄ., and at the wider<br />
suppression of children's sexuality. Available for $29.50 from Ophelia<br />
Editions. (See 'Publishers' for address)<br />
<br />
Gardner, R. Sex Abuse Hysteria - the Salem witch-trials<br />
revisited. London, 1991. ISBN 0 933812 22 1.<br />
<br />
Goldman, R. "Show Me Yours !" - Children talking about sex.<br />
London. Penguin, 1988. (USA edition subtitled 'Understanding<br />
children's sexuality')<br />
<br />
Hertoft, Preben/Triobands Collective. Crimes Without Victims - a<br />
book about paedophilia. Global Academic Publishers, Amsterdam, 1993.<br />
(Translation of a 1986 book of positive essays and interviews by<br />
Danish group. Available from the Intermale address - see 'European<br />
Groups')<br />
<br />
The Howard League For Penal Reform. Unlawful Sex; report of the<br />
Howard League Working Party. London, 1985. (Chapter Four is a<br />
useful, if somewhat dated, overview of legal and penal aspects of<br />
child-adult loving in Britain. A balanced and informed survey of the<br />
research literature concludes that children in a consenting<br />
relationship usually have a positive and nurturing experience of great<br />
value to them. Categorically concludes that psychological damage<br />
arises almost solely from the involvement of police, social workers<br />
and doctors. Statistics and tables of mid-1980s<br />
arrest/conviction/sentence data)<br />
<br />
Lees, S. (ed) Sugar and Spice - sexuality and adolescent girls.<br />
Penguin, 1993. (Edited quotations from interviews and discussions<br />
back up this study of the social and sexual relations between<br />
adolescent boys and girls)<br />
<br />
McBride, W. and Fleischhaver, H. "Show Me!" - a picture book of<br />
sex for children. St. Martin's Press. New York, 1975.<br />
<br />
Middleton, Warren (Ed.) The Betrayal of Youth - radical<br />
perspectives on childhood sexuality, intergenerational sex, and the<br />
social oppression of children and young people. London. CL<br />
Publications, 1986. (No traceable copies in any UK libraries - but a<br />
vailable for Hf36.50 plus postage from the Intermale address - see<br />
'European Groups')<br />
<br />
Nelson, B. Making An Issue Of Child-Abuse - political<br />
agenda-setting for social problems. Chicago University Press.<br />
Chicago, 1984. (More useful than 'positive', this traces the<br />
development in the USA of the multi-million dollar child-abuse<br />
'diagnosis /therapy' industry, and its use as a political platform;<br />
the effect of which is to distract resources from the relatively few<br />
genuine cases of coercive and violent child abuse, brew up an ongoing<br />
moral-panic which denies the reality that most children ha ve sexual<br />
feelings and desires, and cause trauma and heartbreak to thousands of<br />
children and adults in loving consenting relationships)<br />
<br />
North American Man/Boy Love Association. Boys speak out on<br />
man/boy love. NAMBLA, 1986. (3rd edition) (See 'Magazines' for<br />
NAMBLA address)<br />
<br />
Parton, N. The Politics of Child Abuse. London. MacMillan,<br />
1985. (Still in print and in bookshops in 1993. Similar critique to<br />
that of Nelson (1984, see above) but in a British context, and with<br />
useful historical contextualisation. In parts, highly<br />
critical of the 'medicalisation' of the phenomenon, and the way in which prejudices about race, class, gender and age exist covertly within much of what passes for 'professional practice' in the field)<br />
<br />
Parents Special Interest Group. Girlhood sexual experiences -<br />
from the Parent SIG BBS. Passion Press, 1993. (52pp. Accounts of<br />
early sexual experiences gathered from submissions via a computer<br />
'bulletin board' on the InterNet. Available from the US Ophelia<br />
Editions address)<br />
<br />
Pascal, Mark. (Ed.) Varieties of Man-Boy Love - Modern Western<br />
Contexts. Wallace Hamilton Pres. New York, 1992. (Positive<br />
anthology pubished by NAMBLA, originally as Nambla Journal #8 -<br />
available in Europe from the Intermale address - see 'European G<br />
roups')<br />
<br />
Pieterse, M. Paedophiles discuss paedophilia. GÄ.P. Amsterdam,<br />
1988. ISBN 1 55741 008 9. (English text. Available from Global<br />
Academic Publishers. Postbus 22167, NL 1100, KD Amsterdam,<br />
Netherlands)<br />
<br />
Powell, G. and Chalkley, N. The Effect Of Paedophiliac Attention<br />
On A Child. IN: B. Taylor (ed.) Perspectives On Paedophilia.<br />
London. Batsford, 1981. (A scholarly review of the research<br />
literature by the Institute Of Psychiatry. Concludes that in incidents<br />
where no force or violence is used, there is very little evidence that<br />
the child will be psychologically disturbed or damaged by either the<br />
emotional or sexual aspects of the relationship)<br />
<br />
Randall, J. L. Childhood and Sexuality - a radical Christian<br />
approach. Pittsburgh. Dorrance, 1992. ISBN 0 8059 3284 4. (Forget<br />
the 'radical christian' tag, this is an excellent rebuttal of all the<br />
slanders and misinformation currently directed at pa edophiles, though<br />
the UK author does not delve too deeply into the reasons and factors<br />
behind the current post mid-80s moral panics. Highly recommended.<br />
Available from the US Ophelia Editions address)<br />
<br />
Richardson, J., Best, J., Bromley, D. The Satanism Scare.<br />
Publisher not known. (Available from the US Ophelia Editions address.<br />
Collection of sociological and criminological articles exposing the<br />
ludicrous falsity of the 'satanism' panic.)<br />
<br />
Rossman, P. Sexual Experience Between Men and Boys - exploring<br />
the pederast underground. Association Press. New York, 1976.<br />
(Well-balanced study, dated but with an international perspective -<br />
reprinted in the UK in 1985. Available from the 'Prinz Ei senarz'<br />
address.)<br />
<br />
Sandfort, T. The Sexual Aspects Of Pedophiliac Relationships -<br />
experiences of boys. Utrecht Sociological Institute, The Netherlands,<br />
1981.<br />
<br />
Sandford, T. Boys On Their Contacts With Men - A study of<br />
sexually expressed relationships. New York. GÄ.P., 1987.<br />
<br />
Sandford, T; Brongersma, E; and van Naerssen, A. (Eds.) Male<br />
intergenerational intimacy. 1992. (See 'Magazines' under Journal of<br />
Homosexuality for more information - available in Europe from the<br />
Intermale address)<br />
<br />
Tsang, D. (ed) The Age Taboo - gay male sexuality, power and<br />
consent. London. Gay Men's Press, 1981. (In USA by Alyson, Boston,<br />
1981) (Many reprinted articles from various hard-to-find<br />
radical/alternative/gay publications of the 1970s.) (** On the<br />
subject of 'consent', there is an excellent and useful overview of the<br />
subject of children and 'consent' in Priscilla Anderson's 'Children's<br />
Consent to Surgery' [Oxford University Press, 1994] which, according<br />
to the newspaper reviews, conclud es that "...beyond any doubt, many<br />
children, even young ones, can digest information and make decisions<br />
about themselves and their bodies as well as most adults." If her<br />
findings become accepted, then we have a ready-made and authoritative<br />
argument agai nst those who hold that children 'don't know what<br />
they're getting into', and thus cannot legally consent to loving<br />
intimate relationships with older people.<br />
<br />
The Obscene Publications Squad vs. Art. [anon; LÄ.S.] (Booklet<br />
giving full account of the raids by Scotland Yard's TO13 branch on<br />
well-known painter and photographer Graham Ovenden. See Articles:<br />
Bellos, A. for more information. Available from the US<br />
Ophelia Editions address)<br />
<br />
Wells, Dr. H. The Sensous Child. New York. Stein and Day, 1978.<br />
(Still in print in the USA from Scarborough Press; ISBN 08128 2472 5)<br />
<br />
Underwager, R., and Wakefield, H. (Eds.) The Real World Of Child<br />
Interrogations. (From the editors of the journal 'Issues in Child<br />
Abuse Accusations', which questions many of the edicts of the child<br />
abuse industry. Late 1980s/early 1990s ? No further information.)<br />
<br />
Wexler, R. Wounded Innocents - the real victims of the war<br />
against child abuse. USA. Promethious Books, 1990. ISBN 0 87975 602<br />
0. (No UK edition. Well-argued and researched book about the<br />
hysteria over alleged child-abuse in the USA, and the indust ry that<br />
has sprung up to exploit the panic. Wexler argues that most cases are<br />
unfounded, and that it is the investigative methods of the<br />
'child-police' which most often traumatize and stigmatize children)<br />
<br />
Wilson, G. and Cox, D. The Child-Lovers - a study of paedophilia<br />
in society. London, Peter Owen, 1983. ISBN 0 7206 0603 9 (Study of<br />
answers from a questionairre answered by 77 PIE members in Britain in<br />
the late 1970s. Also includes case-studies. Ve ry interesting, but<br />
although non-condemnatory, it is not wholly positive. Available from<br />
the Prinz Eisenharz address)<br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>Children's Rights</h3><br />
<br />
Farson, R. Birthrights. New York. MacMillan, 1977.<br />
<br />
Holt, T. Escape from Childhood - the needs and rights of<br />
children. London, Penguin, 1974. (An excellent multi-faceted<br />
argument for children's rights. Highly readable)<br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>Books - writers and literature.</h3><br />
<br />
Birkin, Andrew. J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys. London.<br />
Constable, 1979. (Account of the loves of the creator of 'Peter Pan'.<br />
Still in print in 1993)<br />
<br />
Cohen, Morton (Ed.) Lewis Carroll - interviews and recollections.<br />
University of Iowa Press, 1991. (One third of the book is devoted to<br />
the recollections of Carroll's child-friends)<br />
<br />
Cooley, John. Mark Twain's Aquarium - The Samuel Clemens Angel<br />
Fish Correspondence, 1905-1910. University Of Georgia, 1991. (Record<br />
of Twain's club for little girls)<br />
<br />
Crowley, J.W. (Ed.) Austen, Roger. Genteel Pagan - the double<br />
life of Charles Warren Stoddard. University of Massachusetts Press,<br />
Amhurst, 1991. (About the life of the American travel writer, also a<br />
boy-lover)<br />
<br />
Kilvert, F. (Plomer, W. ed.) Kilvert's Diary, 1870-1879.<br />
London. Penguin, 1977 (This one-volume selection, first published in<br />
the UK By Johnathan Cape in 1944, is still in print. Originally<br />
published in three volumes. A journal kept by a rural Eng lish<br />
Victorian vicar, a great lover of young girls, whose journal is<br />
claimed to be among the finest in the English language)<br />
<br />
Kincaid, J. R. Child-loving; the erotic child and Victorian<br />
culture. London. Routledge, 1993. (Caused much condemnatory<br />
foaming-at-the-mouth in the pages of the Sunday Times. Excellent<br />
positive account of the place of the 'child' in culture, especial ly<br />
literature, but ranges far beyond the Victorian era. By a senior<br />
lecturer at one of America's top universities)<br />
<br />
(Author unknown) The Green Avenue - the life and writings of<br />
Forrest Ried. Cambridge University Press, 1980.<br />
<br />
Gide, Andre. Journals, 1889-1949. London. Penguin, 1992. (Of<br />
limited interest. See index under 'pederasty')<br />
<br />
Hoyt, Edwin P. Horatio's Boys - the life and works of Horatio<br />
Alger. USA, 1983. Publisher Unknown.<br />
<br />
Morris, F. The Death Of Narcissus. Secker and Warburg. London,<br />
1976. (Useful thoughtful survey of paedophilia themes in pre-Nabokov<br />
literature, by a psychiatrist)<br />
<br />
Pollard, Patrick. Andre Gide - homosexual moralist. Yale<br />
University Press, New Haven, 1991. (Also looks at the historical<br />
origins of theories of boylove)<br />
<br />
Robinson, Christopher. Scandal in the Ink - male and female<br />
homosexuality in 20th century French literature. London, Cassell,<br />
1995. (Has a chapter on paedophilia)<br />
<br />
Shively, Charley. (Ed.) Drum-beats - Walt Whitman's Civil War<br />
boy-lovers. Gay Sunshine Press, USA, no date known (1980s ?)<br />
<br />
Smith, T. Love In Earnest. London. Routledge, 1970. (A study<br />
of paedophilia in British 'Uranian' poetry and verse of the 1880s and<br />
1890s)<br />
<br />
Saintogne, Pierre de. Livre d'Or des Texts Pedophiles: Des<br />
Origines a nos Jours. Societe Corydon, Paris, 1990. (If you can<br />
read French, this is an anthology of mainstream French literature with<br />
paedophile themes. Vol 2 out in 1992)<br />
<br />
For more details of this and other anthologies, see the<br />
introduction to my own anthology.<br />
<br />
For those who can read German, a special issue of the journal<br />
Literatussi (13/14, 1993) was devoted to homosexuality in literature,<br />
and had an article on 'Paedophilia and Literature'.<br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>History</h3><br />
<br />
Golden, Mark. Children and childhood in Classical Athens. 1990.<br />
(No further information)<br />
<br />
Koven, Seth. From rough lads to hooligans - boy life, national<br />
culture and social reform. IN: Parker, A. (Ed.) Nationalisms and<br />
Sexualities. Routledge, London, 1992. (Excellent article on the<br />
pederast underground in the late Victorian times, and its<br />
influence on the foundations of a welfare system in the UK)<br />
<br />
'nß. aristoff' (Ed.) Girl-love and Girl-lust in 19th Century<br />
England. Passion Press, 1992. (64pp. Part short anthology, part<br />
essay. Available from the Ophelia address)<br />
<br />
Oosterhuis, Harry. (Ed.) Homosexuality and male bonding in<br />
pre-Nazi Germany the youth movement, the gay movement, and male<br />
bonding before Hitler's rise; original transcripts from 'Der Eigene',<br />
the first gay journal in the world. Haworth Press. New York, 1992.<br />
(Anthology of writings translated from the German, mostly about<br />
boy-love)<br />
<br />
Ovenden, G. and Melville, R. Victorian Children. St. Martin's<br />
Press, late 1970s ? (Collection of original prints and negatives by<br />
pioneering Victorian photographers of children)<br />
<br />
Pearson, M. The Age Of Consent - Victorian prostitution and its<br />
enemies. London. David and Charles, 1972. (Readable rather than<br />
incisive, but still a useful overview. Somewhat superseded by<br />
Walkowitz in 1993.)<br />
<br />
Tarnowsky, Dr. Benjamin. Pederasty in Europe. (Trans. Paul<br />
Gardner) Falstaff Press, New York, circa 1930s. (Very scarce,<br />
Delectus Books had a s/h copy at �95 in 1994)<br />
<br />
Walkowitz, J.R. City of Dreadful Delight. Publisher unknown,<br />
1993. (Complex and detailed academic social history of sexual panics<br />
in nineteenth century Britain, with over half the book concentrating<br />
on the age-of-consent issue. Available from the US Ophelia Editions<br />
address)<br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>Accounts of attempts to set up<br />
self-help/campaigning paedophile groups</h3><br />
<br />
O'Carroll, T. Paedophilia - the radical case. (See above in 1a)<br />
)<br />
<br />
Campaign Against Public Morals. Paedophilia and Public Morals.<br />
London. CAPM, 1980. Pamphlet. Reproduces news-cuttings about the<br />
PIE arrests, along with analysis of where PIE tactics went wrong, and<br />
details of the defence campaign run by anarchists -<br />
the only section of the Left which had the courage to mount one! The title refers to the antiquated 17th Century charge of "conspiracy to corrupt public morals" used to prosecute PIE Executive Committee members)<br />
<br />
Moody, R. Indecent Assault. London. Peace News, 1980. Account<br />
of the trial and police harassment of a PIE campaigner, who was later<br />
acquitted of false charges of 'indecent assault' - available from the<br />
Intermale address)<br />
<br />
Plummer, K. Chapter 8. "The paedophile's" progress; a view from<br />
below. IN: Taylor, B. (ed.) Perspectives On Paedophilia. London.<br />
Batsford, 1981. ISBN 07134 37189. (Positive overview of paedophile<br />
attempts to set up self-help groups/organisations , in Britain and<br />
elsewhere)<br />
<br />
Smith, S. A. 'PIE - from 1980 until its demise in 1985' IN:<br />
Middleton, Warren (Ed.) The Betrayal of Youth - radical perspectives<br />
on childhood sexuality, intergenerational sex, and the social<br />
oppression of children and young people. London. CL Publications,<br />
1986. (pp. 215-245)<br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>BIBLIOGRAPHIES</h3><br />
<br />
(as if you needed more !)<br />
<br />
Jones, G. The Social Study Of Pederasty - in search of a<br />
literature base; an annotated bibliography of sources in English.<br />
Journal Of Homosexuality. Vol. 8, No. 1, 1982. pp. 61-95. (Extensive<br />
bibliography of consensual boy-man relationships)<br />
<br />
Dynes, W.R. Homosexuality - a research guide. Garland. New<br />
York/London, 1987. (Pages 604-612 contain a bibliography on<br />
'intergenerational sex', which has references for many<br />
foreign-language books and articles, as yet untranslated into<br />
English.)<br />
<br />
(Anon.) A Select Bibliography On Paedophilia. Gay Information<br />
(Australia), No.7, 1981, pp. 38-40, AND No.14-15, 1984, p. 67. (Might<br />
be useful if you're searching for Australian material from the 1970s<br />
and early 1980s)<br />
<br />
Young, Ian. The Male Homosexual in Literature. 2nd Ed. USA,<br />
1985.<br />
<br />
Schlesinger, B. Sexual Abuse Of Children - a resource guide and<br />
annotated bibliography. Toronto University Press. Toronto, 1982.<br />
(Useful for academic researchers)<br />
<br />
Kinsey Institute For Research in Sex. Pedophilia bibliography.<br />
Kinsey Institute, Indiana, USA, May 1984. (Kinsey Institute is at 313<br />
Morrison Hall, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.<br />
Bibliography costs $14.50 in USA, and an extra $1 gets<br />
you a copy of the list of all other 380 bibliographies available from the Institute, eg; 'Children and Sex Education'; 'Child and adolescent homosexuality'; and 'Child/Parent relationships'. Add lots of extra $'s if ordering from Europe).<br />
<br />
Prinz Eisenhart, the Gay mail-order bookshop In Germany (see<br />
elsewhere for address) do a large listing (several hundred items) of<br />
all the books they have had over the past few years on the subject of<br />
paedophilia.<br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>ARTICLES</h3><br />
<br />
Mostly post-1980 (Large libraries may keep back-copies of<br />
journals, and will have newspaper archives available on microfilm.<br />
You can also request article photocopies from libraries, who will send<br />
your request to the British Library Document Supply Centre, who then<br />
send back a copy of the article to the library for you to collect.<br />
You may have to pay a nominal fee and fill in a form.)<br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>General Articles</h3><br />
<br />
(not including all the articles published in Paidika. See<br />
'Magazines' for address. They will send a subscription form which<br />
also lists most of the articles published. Same goes for all the<br />
other paedophile journals and magazines)<br />
<br />
Barrie, E. Speak of the wolf - and see his tail. New Statesman<br />
and Society. 21.08.92. pp. 22-23. (Superb article, backed by<br />
references to current European research)<br />
<br />
Califia, P. The Age Of Consent - An issue and its affects in the<br />
gay movement. Advocate [USA gay paper], No. 303, October 16th 1980<br />
(pp. 19-23, 45) AND No. 304, October 30th 1980 (pp. 17-23, 45) (Argues<br />
that the 'Kiddie Porn' panics were stirred up by the moral reform<br />
element of the New Right to discredit and disrupt the sexual<br />
liberation movement of the late 1970s. This article may be collected<br />
in Califa's recent book-collection of essays)<br />
<br />
Cash, William. An American Tradition. The Spectator. 11.09.93.<br />
pp.15-17. (Excellent articles about the rise of child abuse hysteria<br />
in the US, comparing it with McCarthy-ism. Incisive criticism is<br />
backed-up by solid statistics, and resumes of the findings of recent<br />
US research which contradict those of the 'abuse industry')<br />
<br />
Coward, R. A culture obsessed with abuse. The Observer.<br />
06.06.93. p.54. (Excellent and perceptive article, reprinted in<br />
'Uncommon Desires Newsletter' number 15, 1994)<br />
<br />
Coward, R. The fatal attractions of a pied piper. The Observer.<br />
08.09.93. (Excellent analysis of the Michael Jackson 'scandal')<br />
<br />
Croall, J. The Harshest Accusation. The Guardian (Education<br />
Supplement) 05.10.93. pp. 6-7. (Looks at two cases of teacher's<br />
careers being ruined by false accusations of 'sexual abuse', and the<br />
consequent hysteria on the part of the 'child-police')<br />
<br />
Eaton, L. Child Abuse...who's counting ? The Guardian. April<br />
1993. (Questions the basis of child 'molestation'/abuse statistics,<br />
and finds them rather dubious)<br />
<br />
Featherstone, J. Positive child-adult sex - the evidence.<br />
Anarchy - a journal of desire armed. Vol.1, No. 33. Summer 1992.<br />
pp. 60-68. (See 'Magazines' for address)<br />
<br />
Illman, John. Let's Talk About Sex. The Guardian (2), 01.03.94.<br />
p. 18. (Reports that some family planning experts are hoping for a<br />
public debate on lowering the age of heterosexual consent in Britain,<br />
along the lines of the Dutch model - they'll be lucky !)<br />
<br />
Jervis, Margaret. First, confess sexual abuse. The Guardian.<br />
03.02.93. (Scathing expose of the Gracewell Institute methods of<br />
brainwashing/ 're-education'. The Institute was the only place in<br />
Britain offering 'treatment' for paedophiles, but has since been<br />
refused a license to continue operating as a clinic)<br />
<br />
Phillips, A. Beware the bogey mentality. The Guardian Weekend<br />
Supplement. 15.05.93. pp. 12. (Argues that 'stranger danger'<br />
indoctrination of children leaves a lasting scar on them, and is<br />
itself a form of abuse)<br />
<br />
Rickford, F. The Lottery Of Life. The Guardian (2), 30.03.94.<br />
p. 15. (Results of various recent reports. States that it is<br />
impossible to identify in advance an 'at risk' child, and that only<br />
one-in-seven bureaucratic child protection investigations result in<br />
the child being 'registered', and that such registration then has no<br />
qualitative effect on the level of 'protection'. Further research<br />
suggests that middle-class social workers are primarily drawing on<br />
their own moral attitudes to police the parenting practices of<br />
working-class and ethnic minority families, and evidence of<br />
'hostility' toward the social-worker meant that an investigation was<br />
more likely to be pursued, regardless of evidence.)<br />
<br />
Sage, A. Spanish gays offer Britain a moral. The Independent On<br />
Sunday. 29.09.91. p.4 (Article about Spain's lowering to 12 of age<br />
of legal consent)<br />
<br />
Sandler, F. To Miss with love. The Guardian (2), 21.09.93.<br />
p. 17. (Four interviews with lesbians who fell in love with their<br />
teachers as schoolgirls. In two instances the love was reciprocated<br />
and the interviewees look back on the experience as being very<br />
positive. Reprinted from the June '93 edition of 'SheBang'.<br />
Reprinted in issue 15 of Uncommon Desires Newsletter.)<br />
<br />
Scherer, Rene. On a 'minority complex'. Journal of<br />
Homosexuality, Vol. 25, No. 3. (On paedophilia)<br />
<br />
Shultz, L. G. Child Sexual Abuse In Historical Perspective.<br />
Journal of Social Work and Human Sexuality, Vol 1, No. 1. 1982.<br />
pp. 21 - 35.<br />
<br />
Steen, E. Has child sex reached the age of consent ? The<br />
Independent On Sunday. 18.11.90. (Broadly positive article on<br />
Holland's lowering of the age of legal consent to age 12)<br />
<br />
Waterhouse, R. At Breaking Point. The Independent on Sunday<br />
(Review supplement) 25.10.92. pp. 6-9. (Excellent, savagely detailed<br />
criticisms of the investigative methods and assumptions of<br />
social-workers following up uncorroborated allegations of sexual<br />
abuse, with case-studies of innocent families caught up in the cogs of<br />
an alternately misguided and paranoid bureaucracy)<br />
<br />
Wilson, E. Immoral panics - sensationalising paedophilia evades<br />
the issue. New Statesman and Society. 30.08.90. pp.18-19. (Not<br />
overly positive, but thoughtful and fairly balanced, given the climate<br />
of McCarthy-esque 'opinion' in Britain. By one of the UK's more<br />
rational feminists)<br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>Articles in academic/professional journals</h3><br />
<br />
Bradley, M.Z. Feminine equivalents of Greek Love in Modern<br />
Fiction. International Journal of Greek Love, Vol.1, No. 1. pp. 48 -<br />
58 (No date. Could 'M.Z. Bradley' be the famous science-fiction<br />
authoress?)<br />
<br />
Bredeck, Gregory. Milton's Ganymede - negotiations of the<br />
homoerotic tradition in 'Paradise Regained'. Publication of the<br />
Modern Language Association, Vol. 106, No. 2. 1991. pp. 262 - 276<br />
<br />
Brongersma, E. A defense of sexual liberty for all age groups.<br />
The Howard Journal Of Reform. Vol.27, No.1. February 1988. pp.32-43.<br />
(Also looks at the European research, and ask why it has not been<br />
reported in Britain)<br />
<br />
Brongersma, E. Aggression against paedophiles. International<br />
Journal Of Law and Psychiatry. No. 7, 1984. pp. 79-87.<br />
<br />
Hall, J. and Martin, D. Crimes against children. New Law<br />
Journal; June 26 1992. pp. 902-903. (Rightly condemnatory towards<br />
coercion and violent abuse, but in general a relatively balanced and<br />
interesting look at the decision-making process behind jud icial<br />
sentencing for child-abuse and incest in the British courts)<br />
<br />
Haugaard, J. Sexually abused children's opposition to<br />
psychotherapy. Journal Of Sexual Abuse, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1992.<br />
pp. 1-16. (This appears in a hyper-'correct' journal with a hideously<br />
negative attitude [where else would you find articles on 'satanic abuse networks' being taken seriously ?], but this is an interesting admission that many children who have been 'caught' in consenting relationships are often very resistant to their subsequent regime of 'therapy' - a 'therapy' which medicalises the love they have experienced, denies the validity of their own feelings, and which tells them that their loved adult was 'bad'. Of course, the author can't see children's resistance as evidence that many children in consenting relationships might not want psychotherapy, but rather he sees resistance as just a 'problem' to be overcome by more rigourous coercive practices)<br />
<br />
Jones, M. Mark Twain and Sexuality. PMLA 71, (1956) pp. 595-616.<br />
(Discussion of Twain's platonic love of young girls, and the less<br />
platonic aspects of his dreams, as given in his journal and the<br />
posthumously published fragment 'My Platonic Sweetheart' . Twain's<br />
arguments for abolishing the age-of-consent can be found in Harper's<br />
Weekly, July 5th 1902, p. 732. There is a book on Twain's love of<br />
girls, "Mark Twain's Aquarium" available from the US Ophelia Editions<br />
address)<br />
<br />
Leahy, T. Positively Experienced Man-Boy Sex - the discourse of<br />
seduction and the social construction of masculinity. Australian and<br />
New Zealand Journal of Sociology. 28 (1), March 1992. pp. 71-88.<br />
Refs. (Examines the accounts given by the younger partner to validate<br />
their participation in a man/boy relationship.)<br />
<br />
Menard, J. and Johnson, G. Incest; family dysfunction or sexual<br />
preference ? Family Therapy, Vol. 19. No. 2. (1992) pp. 115-122.<br />
(Interesting attempt to open up a space for debate)<br />
<br />
Middleton, William. 'Last Rights'. Out, Vol. 1, No. 3, Dec/Jan<br />
1993. (English summary of the events surrounding the assassination of<br />
Pasteur Joseph Douce "for paedophilia" by unknown murderers)<br />
<br />
Moon, Micheal. "The gentle boy from the dangerous classes" -<br />
pederasty, domesticity and capitalism in Horatio Alger.<br />
Representations, 19, 1987.<br />
<br />
Okami, P. Self-reports of positive childhood and adolescent<br />
sexual contacts with older persons - an exploratory study. Archives<br />
Of Sexual Behaviour. 20 (5), 1991.<br />
<br />
Okami, P. "Child perpetrators of sexual abuse"; the emergence of<br />
a problematic 'deviant' category. Journal Of Sex Research, Vol. 29<br />
(Feb. 1992) pp. 109-130. (Argues that the 'discovery' of alleged<br />
child-child sexual 'abuse', while it may happen traumatically in a<br />
few rare cases, is primarily an attempt to construct a new media<br />
panic, by professional industry-builders who seek ever more resources,<br />
funding and media 'response')<br />
<br />
Okami, P. Personality correlates of pedophilia; are they reliable<br />
indicators ? Journal Of Sex Research, Vol. 29 (Aug 1992)<br />
pp. 297-328. (Argues that FBI attempts to establish a 'personality<br />
profile' for paedophiles is methodologically flawed and should<br />
not be used as evidence in U.S. legal proceedings)<br />
<br />
Shiltz, L.G. Child sexual abuse in historical perspective. IN:<br />
Conte, J.R. and Shore, D. (Eds.) 'Social Work and Child Sexual Abuse'.<br />
New York. Haworth Press, 1982. pp. 21-35. (Interesting overview,<br />
from a covertly positive perspective, of the historical development<br />
of ideas about child sexuality, with special reference to the moral<br />
reform movements in the USA. Not much to say about the historical<br />
development of the medico-legal category of 'the paedophile')<br />
<br />
Rind, B. and Bausermann, R. Biased terminology effects and biased<br />
information processing in research on adult-nonadult sexual<br />
interactions - an empirical investigation. Journal of Sex Research 30<br />
(3), August 1993, pp. 260-269. Tables, Refs. (Examines the way in<br />
which students processed neutral and positive data on the subject in a<br />
biased way, and were influenced to make a negative interpretation<br />
partly by negative terminology. Very relevant to almost every<br />
social-work degree course)<br />
<br />
Roth, N. "Fawn of my delights" - Boy-love in Hebrew and Arabic<br />
verse. IN: Salisbury, J. (ed.) Sex In The Middle Ages - A book of<br />
essays. Garland. New York, 1991. pp. 157-172. (Very interesting, if<br />
only to reveal the links between such poetry and t hat of Lorca.<br />
Bibliography also lists previous articles by Roth and others on this<br />
subject)<br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>State censorship and art</h3><br />
<br />
Bellos, A. In the eye of the beholder ? Sunday Telegraph<br />
(Review) 02.01.94. p. 5. (Good article on the persecution of artist<br />
and photographer Graham Ovenden. Illus.)<br />
<br />
Bellos, A. Propriety or puritanism ? The Guardian 05.02.94,<br />
p. 25. Good positive article on the Ron Oliver case, although it<br />
doesn't add much to Preston's previous Independent article.<br />
<br />
Freeley, M. Little women. The Guardian Weekend Supplement.<br />
16.01.93. pp. 16-17. (On Nancy Honey's magical photography)<br />
<br />
Gale, Iain. Portrait of the artist as an accused man. The<br />
Independent 15.02.94. p. 25. (Full-page feature article about the<br />
persectution of artist Graham Ovenden. Very sympathetic, and plugs a<br />
London exhibition of the photographs which 'helped the O PS with their<br />
inquiries')<br />
<br />
Morgan, Ted. Balthus: a private view of the painter. The<br />
Observer (Magazine supp.) 30.01.94. pp. 36-41. (Rare contemporary<br />
interview and profile of a man arguably regarded as 'the world's<br />
greatest living painter', and who is notorious for his eroticised<br />
paintings of young girls)<br />
<br />
Preston, R. A question of taste. The Independent (Colour<br />
magazine supplement) 04.09.93. p. 1, pp. 28-32. (Article about the<br />
vicious persecution in Britain of the photographic artist Ron Oliver,<br />
and the seizure by the Obscene Publications Squad of arc hives<br />
representing 16 years of work. Bravely, The Independent, a top<br />
British newspaper which has been so credulous to the claims of the OPS<br />
in the past, has chosen to illustrate the article with selections of<br />
Oliver's work, including a full page nude study)<br />
<br />
Williams, V. The naked truth. The Guardian (2). 22.09.92.<br />
p.17. (On Sally Mann's evocative, startling and often challenging<br />
photographs of children)<br />
<br />
<br />
<h3>Articles on 'satanic' abuse'/false-memory syndrome</h3><br />
<br />
Ascherson, N. Damn the children when the Devil must be found.<br />
The Independent On Sunday. 13.12.92.<br />
<br />
Anon. Arlene's Agony. The Guardian (2). 06.01.94. pp. 2-3.<br />
(First hand account of the terror inflicted on a family when one<br />
member got sucked into a 'therapy' cult that used allegations of<br />
'sexual abuse' as a weapon against the family of the cult member)<br />
<br />
Barrett, John and Dexter, Frank. Satanic abuses. Here and Now,<br />
No. 11 (1991) pp. 17-21. (Good socio-political analysis of the Orkney<br />
and Rochdale cases in the UK. See Long for H&amp;N address. Back issues<br />
available)<br />
<br />
Evans-Pritchard, Ambrose. Forced memories of sex abuse fuel an<br />
industry. The Sunday Telegraph 05.12.93. p.25 (Excellent and highly<br />
skeptical feature article about the situation in the US, which<br />
highlights the huge financial gains made when dubious 'therapists'<br />
extort 'compensation' from their 'patients' parents; 'compensation'<br />
which then goes to pay the exorbitant 'fees' charged by the<br />
'therapist'. "Evil con-trick" is the phrase that springs to mind)<br />
<br />
Grant, L. A past imperfect ? The Guardian (2). 24.05.93.<br />
pp. 10-11. (Useful article about 'False Memory Syndrome' and the<br />
wilder excesses of the alternative 'therapy' industry in Britain)<br />
<br />
Hoggart, Simon. Tricks of the memory. The Observer (Magazine)<br />
27.03.94. pp. 42-45. (Good highly skeptical article which rubbishes<br />
the claims made by therapists, but doesn't really add much new<br />
information.)<br />
<br />
Jervis, Margaret. Virtual reality of tricks of memory. The<br />
Sunday Telegraph. 13.02.94. p.13. (Excellent article chronicling<br />
and attacking the way in which the myth of 'satanic abuse' has gained<br />
a stranglehold on the child-abuse industry)<br />
<br />
Long, David. "When reason sleeps, monsters reign" (Goya); the<br />
satanic abuse myth. Here and Now, No. 13 (1992). pp. 10-13.<br />
(Excellent critique by an exsocial worker. Bibliography. 'Here and<br />
Now', a situationist-influenced journal of politics, is one<br />
of the few sites in the UK in which there has been a sustained attempt to critique this phenomenon at a high level of analysis. See also elsewhere [Barrett and Dexter, and Richards] in this listing. Copies of H&amp;N and backissues can be obtained from: H<br />
&amp;N, c/o Transmission Gallery, 28 King St, Glasgow, G1 5QP. 50p for sample copy, #3 for 3-issue sub in UK)<br />
<br />
McDonald, Victoria. and Elliot, Valerie. Satanic networks<br />
dismissed in two reports. The Sunday Telegraph 13.02.94. p. 13.<br />
(Lengthy news-report which reveals the findings of two official<br />
reports on the alleged 'satanic abuse' panic. Both the Dept. of<br />
</p><p> Health and the Metropolitan Police reports' expose the panic as a<br />
myth, authoritatively discrediting the wild claims made by evangelical<br />
social workers. A lengthy feature article (see Jervis, above)<br />
accompanies the article, giving evidence on how the panic has gained<br />
a stranglehold on the child-abuse industry)<br />
<br />
Richards, A. Orcadian Abuse. Here and Now, No. 12 (1991).<br />
pp. 22-24. (Short article which critically analyses the text of a key<br />
editorial article which appeared in 'Scottish Child' at the time of<br />
the Orkney debacle, and goes on to draw wider criticisms. See Long<br />
for H&amp;N address)<br />
<br />
Waterhouse, R. Government Enquiry Decides Satanic Abuse Does Not<br />
Exist. Independent on Sunday, 24.04.94, p. 1. (Lead news story<br />
revealing more contents and conclusions of the unreleased official<br />
Department of Health report on the subject, using leaked photocopies<br />
of sections of the report. Blames Evangelical social workers and<br />
self-styled 'experts' for the panic and the damage to people's lives)<br />
<br />
<h3>MAGAZINES, NEWSLETTERS AND JOURNALS(non-pornographic)</h3><br />
<br />
<br />
Paidika - a journal of paedophilia. Stitching Paidika Foundation.<br />
Postbus 15463, 1001 ML Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Scholarly and<br />
cultural articles, poetry and news. Sub: Airmail Df.125 for four<br />
issues, Eurocheques OK. Two issues per year. Single cur rent issue<br />
is available from the US Ophelia Editions address for $14.30, or<br />
current/back issues from the Amsterdam Intermale address for Df.37.<br />
Currently starting its third volume. Circulation 750. ISSN 0167<br />
5907.)<br />
<br />
Uncommon Desires Newsletter. Postbus 408, 1000 AK, Amsterdam,<br />
Netherlands. or in USA: PO Box 2377, New York, NY 10185, USA.<br />
(Bi-monthly, a very well presented 'adult-girl loving' newsletter.<br />
15 for four issues. Currently up to issue 15. Four issue s per<br />
year. The editor can send you a 'no photographs' version if you're in<br />
a censorious country)<br />
<br />
Blaze. PO Box M231, Strawberry Hill, NSW 2021, Australia.<br />
(Working for decriminalisation of consenting relationships. Reviews<br />
research and political developments)<br />
<br />
Koinos Magazine. Amikejo Foundation. PO Box 178, 2000 AD,<br />
Haarlem, The Netherlands. (International, in English and German.<br />
Boy-lovers [12+] slick magazine started in 1994, and currently on its<br />
fourth issue. 25/Hf60 Eurocheque four issue subscription)<br />
<br />
North American Man-Boy Love Association. PO Box 174, Midtown Sta.<br />
New York, NY 10018. USA. Campaigning group with regular<br />
newsletter/bulletin, currently up to Volume 14, Number 5. Editor:<br />
Bill Andriette. Ten issues per year. $5 per issue, $25 subs<br />
- $40 outside USA. Circulation 2,000. NAMBLA also publish a new magazine with longer articles, stories and art 'Gayme', edited by Bill Andriettee, which is about older youths. Currently on its second issue - which can be had from the Intermale address, or the Prinz Eisenhart address. I believe there may also be a 'NAMBLA Journal' twice a year.)<br />
<br />
Anarchy - a journal of desire armed. $3 for sample copy/back-copy<br />
by surface mail. CAL Press, POB 1446, Columbia, MO. 652051446. USA.<br />
(The main USA anarchist magazine, complete with glossy colour cover!<br />
Often carries a few listings and addresses for paedophile publications in its extensive 'alternative press review' section, soon to be hived off as a separate publication. Issue 19 [May/July 1989] was a special issue on 'Children's Sexuality'. Current and back-issues available in Britain at 3 each including postage, from: AK Retail, 22 Lutton Place, Edinburgh EH8 9PE)<br />
<br />
Journal Of Homosexuality. (USA. Volume 20, No. 1 and 2, 1990,<br />
titled 'Male Intergenerational Interaction'. [Eds.: Sandford,<br />
Brogsmera, van Naerssen. ISSN/ISBN 0091-8369]. A special<br />
double-issue on the subject of man-boy paedophilia, containing many v<br />
ery interesting, diverse, and well-researched positive academic<br />
articles. One of the editorial board is also on the board for<br />
Paidika. JoH is available from Haworth Press, 10 Alice St,<br />
Binghampton, NY 13904. USA. Tel: 800-342-9678. Can also be had in<br />
Europe from the Intermale address)<br />
<br />
Martijn. (I have not seen this, but apparently it is still<br />
publishing. Dutch paedophile magazine, text in dutch. PO Box 442,<br />
7000 AK Hoogeven, Netherlands. Another possible address is Postbus<br />
5478, 1007 AL Amsterdam)<br />
<br />
Philius. (German with a majority of boy-loving coverage. 48<br />
pages typescript, started in 1987 and published bi-monthly. Essays,<br />
book reviews, reports. Wolfgang Timmer Verlag. PO Box 110765, D-1000<br />
Berlin 11. Tel; (030) 694 34 78, or (030) 465 39 60 . *Information<br />
dated 1989, so may be out of date)<br />
<br />
Lesbian and Gay Freedom Movement newsletter. LGFM, BM Box 207,<br />
London WC1N 3XX. (12 pages. Costs 0.60p inc. postage. Excellent<br />
well-presented newsletter from an anarchist-aligned UK group, who's<br />
aims include, among others, "Sexual freedom for all age s", and to<br />
support "Children in their fight for liberation and freedom to choose<br />
their own sexuality" and support for "Oppressed sexualities<br />
including...girl/girl lovers, girl/woman and man/boy lovers...".<br />
Currently up to issue 7, Summer '93. The LGFM hold regular meetings<br />
in London.)<br />
<br />
Semiotext(e) Magazine (New York). Loving Boys - special issue.<br />
'Semiotext(e) Special, Intervention Series 2: Loving Children (Summer<br />
1980)'. (Interviews with a variety of left theoreticians and<br />
activists, including Kate Millet and the late Michel Foucault. I'm<br />
not sure where you could acquire a copy of this - try writing to<br />
Semiotext(e) publishers; Autonomedia, Box 568, Williamsburg Station,<br />
Brooklyn, NY 11211-0568. USA. A more current magazine from<br />
Semiotext(e)/Autonomedia is 'Wild Children', a 64-page open-access<br />
'zine in which children speak for themselves on a variety of subjects.<br />
Includes a reprint of the hilarious British "School Stoppers Textbook:<br />
99 ways to sab otage your school", compiled by children active in the<br />
Sheffield school-strikes during the mid-1980s. Available in UK for<br />
#4.45 inc. p&amp;p, from Counter Productions, PO Box 556, London SE5 0RL)<br />
<br />
'Vogue Bambini'. Children's clothing trade-magazine by Vogue.<br />
Text in Italian. Published six times a year. (Packed with stunningly<br />
beautiful 'art' style colour photographs, of the exceptional quality<br />
associated with Vogue magazine. Often available i n very large<br />
city-centre branches of newsagents, at #5 a copy, distributed via<br />
Comag. Be discreet when you purchase copies - dress smartly to look<br />
like you might be in the fashion business - and always use cash, as<br />
credit-cards can leave a record of wha t you purchase in 'consumer<br />
profile' computer databases!) ** Other overseas fashion magazines<br />
available, if ordered from large newsagents, are; Gap Italia Bambibi<br />
(Italy, quarterly), Kindermode (Netherlands, 2 per year), Studio<br />
Bambini (Australia), and JPG Enfants and Sacha Pancha Enfants (both<br />
France).<br />
<br />
<h3>NOW DEFUNCT MAGAZINES</h3><br />
<br />
(Non-pornographic. If you see old adverts for these, don't send<br />
for them. Always be very wary of entrapment. Some ads are placed by<br />
law-enforcement agencies, or they may seize and note addresses on mail<br />
sent to a legitimate ma iling address after police raids)<br />
<br />
Childhood Sensuality Circle Newsletter (USA); Gay Youth Community<br />
News (USA); Wonderland (USA - an FBI 'sting' operation !); Pan<br />
(Amsterdam); PIE Newsletter (UK, PIE); Childhood Rights (UK);<br />
Understanding Paedophilia (UK); Magpie (UK, PIE); Hermes (USA); Boys<br />
International; Better Life (USA).<br />
<br />
<h3>FANZINES/AMATEUR MAGAZINES</h3><br />
<br />
(Non-pornographic - though you should be aware that some may have<br />
'risque' images which could cause customs postal inspectors to<br />
prevent delivery)<br />
<br />
"Dry Pocket". Some child-loving material amongst other<br />
sex-positive articles and letters. Stevec Bones, Box 8039, Richmond,<br />
IN 47357-8039, USA. (38 pages, $1, maybe $3 overseas)<br />
<br />
"I Am". Man-boy love culture zine; comix, poetry, reviews,<br />
articles. Address changed from that given in Update 1. Is now :<br />
Chuck Dodson, c/o The Guide, Box 593, Boston, MA 02199, The United<br />
States of America, USA. (46 pages, $5.50, maybe $8 for overs eas)<br />
<br />
"Ped-Men". Non-fiction experiences of man-boy love from prisoners<br />
in the USA. J.M. Box 571, Whitman, MA 02382, USA. (10 pages, $5.50,<br />
maybe $8 overseas)<br />
<br />
"F'Sheet5" Andrew Roller, 5960 S. Land Park Drive, Suite 331,<br />
Sacramento, CA 95822, USA. (12 pages, $1 for sample copy, maybe $2.50<br />
overseas)<br />
<br />
"Man-bag" Frankie, Artpolicecomics Inc. 1611 Elliot Ave.<br />
Minneapolis, MN 55404-1621, USA. ($2.50 per issue, maybe $5 overseas<br />
? Two issues so far. Mentioned in UDN)<br />
<br />
"Inciting Desire". General sexzine with a positive attitude, with<br />
some childloving material and poetry. 343 Soquel Avenue, Suite 151,<br />
Santa Cruz, CA 95062, USA (32 pages. $5 for sample copy. Maybe $8<br />
for overseas)<br />
<br />
<h3>EUROPEAN SELF-HELP GROUPS</h3><br />
<br />
(Listings here are taken from a 1989 publication, so some may now<br />
be defunct...)<br />
<br />
Amsterdam, Netherlands: CÖ.C. Amsterdam, Rozenstraat 14. Tel; 23<br />
40 79 (Dutch society for sexual reform, has paedophile group. If you<br />
are in Amsterdam you might also like to check out the Intermale<br />
bookshop - Spuistraat 251-253, 1012 VR Amsterdam. T el: (0)20-6250009.<br />
They do a 'Special Catalogue' for boy-lovers ordering by mail)<br />
<br />
Copenhagen, Denmark. [Kobenhavn]: Paedophile group meets weekly.<br />
PO Box 330, 1503 Kobenhavn V. Tel; 38 19 23<br />
<br />
Berlin, Germany: Arbeitsgruppe Pedophilie. PO Box 360226. Tel;<br />
453 53 57. (If you are in Berlin, a gay bookshop which also does a<br />
wide range of books on boy-love and general paedophilia is Prinz<br />
Eisenherz - Bleibtreustr. 52, 1000 Berlin 12. Tel: 030 -3139936)<br />
<br />
<h3>PUBLISHERS</h3><br />
<br />
The Coltsfoot Press. (PO Box 3496, 1001 AG, Amsterdam.<br />
Publishers of fiction and academic books about relationships between<br />
men and boys)<br />
<br />
Ophelia Editions. (Amsterdam and New York, Geldersekade 80a III,<br />
NL 1012 BL Amsterdam. Current book-list includes non-fiction and<br />
art/photography books, all currently legal in USA. UK readers would<br />
probably be best ordering from their Amsterdam addre ss [see end of<br />
the 'Fiction' listing] but should beware that photography books from<br />
Amsterdam are probably more likely to be stopped by Customs officers<br />
than those coming from elsewhere...)<br />
<br />
Academy Editions. (Information may be out-of-date. Same address<br />
as Ophelia ?)<br />
<br />
Other publishers to look out for are Acolyte Press, Global<br />
Academic Publishers, Promethious Books, Haworth Press, Dyanthus Press.<br />
<br />
<h3>PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTIONS</h3><br />
<br />
(Non-pornographic)<br />
<br />
Hamilton, D. (Text by Coutts, D.) The Best Of David Hamilton.<br />
London. Collins, 1981. ISBN 0 00 216078 1. (Lovely misty romantic<br />
photographs of blond young girls, by this world-famous photographer.)<br />
<br />
Hamilton, D. David Hamilton's Private Collection. Morrow. New<br />
York, 1980 ISBN 0 688 00402 4.<br />
<br />
Hamilton, D. and Robbe-Grillet, A. Dreams Of A Young Girl.<br />
Morrow. New York, 1971. ISBN 0 688 01482 8.<br />
<br />
A retrospective of the work of David Hamilton '25 Years as an<br />
Artist' is to be published in Britain in 1993.<br />
<br />
A collection of work by the acclaimed art photographer Ron Oliver<br />
(see 'Preston, R.' above, in 'articles') is likely to be published in<br />
November 1994, by Iconography II, Amsterdam. No UK publication<br />
details as yet, if ever, given the current neuroses of the OPS at Scotland Yard.<br />
<br />
Mann, Sally. Immediate Family. London. Phaidon, 1992. (There<br />
was also a previous collection called 'At Twelve'. Both are available<br />
from Ophelia Editions)<br />
<br />
During August-October 1993, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery<br />
staged a major exhibition called "Photographing Children", covering<br />
photography from Victoriana to the modern day. There may well be an<br />
illustrated catalogue available. Aperture have pu blished a mostly<br />
theoretical book of essays on nude and erotic images in contemporary<br />
photography, 'The Body In Question', available from the Ophelia<br />
address.<br />
<br />
See also the work of Robert Doisneau (Les Enfants, 1992)<br />
<br />
For boys see also the work of Ian David Baker ('Younger Days', GMP 1993), and Will McBride, member of the Magnum school. The turn-of-the-century equivalent of David Hamilton (for boys) was Wilhelm von Gloeden. Tashen published a collection of his adole<br />
scent nudes in 1994.<br />
<br />
For girls, see also the work of Jan Saudek, Graham Ovenden,<br />
Henson, Dubin, and the Ophelia postcards series. (All Ophelia<br />
Editions).<br />
<br />
<h3>PAINTERS, ARTISTS AND<br />
ILLUSTRATIONS</h3><br />
<br />
(There are a host of lovely studies by 19th century romantic<br />
painters and sculptors, including George Clausen and Jaques Joseph<br />
Tissot. For a choice selection, you might track down the catalogue<br />
for the "Innocence And Experience" exhibition [Shown in Manchester and<br />
Nottingham, 1992/93] )<br />
<br />
See also: Balthus (started off as a surrealist, but now hailed as<br />
'the world's greatest living artist'), Peter Blake (contemporary),<br />
Gilbert And George (Contemporary. Especially early work, like<br />
'Friendship' and 'Trust'), and Ascsah Barlow Brewster (esp ecially the<br />
lovely 1921 girl-nude watercolour 'Hamadryad') who had a 1992<br />
exhibition in New York by Borghi and Co.<br />
<br />
Graham Ovenden. Barley Splatt, Panters Bridge, Warloggan, Mount,<br />
Bodmin. Cornwall. (Commissions. Beautifully painted portraits of<br />
girls by an extremely talented contemporary artist. Mainly works on<br />
commission for overseas customers due to the current repressive<br />
climate in Britain. As seen on Channel 4 in 'Lolita Unclothed'!<br />
Collections of work available from Ophelia Eds, or an original work<br />
from Piccadilly Gallery, 16 Cork St, London W1). Was also featured,<br />
along with other Ruralists, in a special profile issue of 'Art and<br />
Design': Papadakis, A.C. (Ed.) 'The Ruralists'; an Art and Design<br />
Profile. Academy Editions, London. 10 from Academy Group Ltd, 7<br />
Holland Road, LONDON W8 4NA.<br />
<br />
In the first years of this century, Picasso returned to rural<br />
Spain and painted charmingly fresh nude studies of children and<br />
adolescents in a romantic and non-abstact style (what is now known<br />
rather tastelessly as his 'flesh' period. He also wrote a pl ay with<br />
the intruiging title 'The Four Little Girls', published circa 1970 in<br />
the USA by John Calder.)<br />
<br />
Girl-lovers might be interested in the paintings of surrealist<br />
Christin Couture. For more details check: Chadwick, N. Women Artists<br />
and the Surrealist Movement. London. Thames and Hudson, 1985.<br />
<br />
Cooper, E. The Life And Work Of Henry Scott Tuke. London. Gay<br />
Men's Press, 1987. (Famous Victorian painter of semi-naked pubescent<br />
boys and seascapes)<br />
<br />
Micheal Parkes. Micheal Parkes. Steltman Editions, Amsterdam<br />
1993. (Collections of impressive paintings of girls. Available from<br />
Ophelia Editions)<br />
<br />
Cabanes, M. Heart Throbs. Xpresso Books. London, 1991. ISBN 1<br />
85386 262 2. (Award-winning graphic-novel from Belgium. Its luminous<br />
watercolour panels tell a semi-autobiographical story, and the book<br />
represents one of the pinnacles of the European gr aphic-novel<br />
tradition)<br />
<br />
Johnson, Judy M. (Ed.) Children and their world - a treasury of<br />
vintage cuts and illustrations. New York, Dover Publications Inc,<br />
1990. ISBN 0-48626457-2. (350 classic black-and-white line<br />
illustrations from childrens books from 1900s-1920s. And all copyright-free !)<br />
<br />
Johnson, Judy M. (Ed.) Vintage spot illustrations of children -<br />
795 cuts from the teens and twenties. New York, Dover Publications<br />
Inc, (date unknown). ISBN 0-486-26351-7.<br />
<br />
Belanger Grafton, Carol (Ed.) Children - a pictorial archive from<br />
Nineteenth Century sources. New York, Dover Publications Inc, (date<br />
unknown). ISBN 0486-23694-3.<br />
<br />
(The above three are all copyright-free - and the three books<br />
together cost only $18 in the USA. Dover's address is: 31 East 2nd<br />
Street, Mineola, NY 11501.)<br />
<br />
<h3>FEATURE FILMS</h3><br />
<br />
(Mainstream, non-pornographic)<br />
<br />
Broken Blossoms. 1919 (USA. Dir. D.W. Griffiths. A young<br />
oriental man falls in love with a beautiful twelve-year-old waif,<br />
played by Lillian Gish, and is heartbroken when she is murdered killed<br />
by her sadistic father. Available on video. From the n ovel<br />
Limehouse Nights, available from the US Ophelia Editions address)<br />
<br />
Madchen in Uniform. 1931 (Germany. Dir. Leonitine Sagan. Moving<br />
melodrama about a schoolgirl's affair with a female teacher. Still<br />
much acclaimed today, and available on video. Banned by the Nazi's,<br />
which is all the more reason to see it)<br />
<br />
Pennies From Heaven 1936. (USA. 8-year-old orphan Edith Fellows<br />
falls in love with Bing Crosby, a singing ex-convict who she meets in<br />
fairground. An antique mix of comedy, melodrama and musical, but<br />
still enjoyable, although the problems caused by of ficialdom are<br />
eventually ironed out by marriage and adoption)<br />
<br />
Major And The Minor. 1942. (USA. The 'Lolita' of the 1940s.<br />
Comedy)<br />
<br />
The Curse of the Cat People. 1944. (USA. Dir. Gunther von<br />
Fritsch. Sequel to the eerie 'Cat People', this stars the<br />
six-year-old Ann Carter as a lonely sensitive girl who summons up the<br />
ghost of the first 'human cat', Simone Simon, in what seems to b ecome<br />
a lightly disguised allegory of inter-generational 'forbidden' love,<br />
complete with 'good' child-lover and 'bad' child-hater conflict at the<br />
end. You may 'read' it as just a good creepy psychological ghost<br />
story, but it is certainly very open to in terpretation. It helps if<br />
you've also seen the original 'Cat People', but see 'Curse...' anyway<br />
and judge for yourself. Available on video)<br />
<br />
Portrait of Jennie. 1948. (US. An etherial romance between two<br />
generations; a struggling New York painter and a mysterious little<br />
girl he falls in love with in Central Park, and whose age moves from<br />
childhood to womanhood as the film progresses. Char mingly handled<br />
with expert direction, photography and acting all round, and a lyrical<br />
score taken from Debussy's 'Afternoon of a Faun'. Based on the novel<br />
by Robert Nathan. Available on video)<br />
<br />
Don't Ever Leave Me. 1949. (UK. An antique now, but rather<br />
charming in its own fey way. Comedy, with tinges of seriousness)<br />
<br />
Olivia. 1951 (France. Dir. Jacqueline Audry. Covers similar<br />
ground to Madchen In Uniform (1931), but is nowhere near as positive,<br />
seeing lesbianteacher crushes as 'phases' which 'healthy girls' should<br />
leave behind as they grow into same-age heterosex uality. From a<br />
psuedonymous novel (1949) by Dorothy Bussey, sister of Lytton<br />
Strachey)<br />
<br />
The Spanish Gardener. 1956 (UK. Dir. Philip Leacock. Film of<br />
the A.J. Cronin novel, starring Dirk Bogarte. An excellent article on<br />
the film by Andy Medhurst, '"It's as a man that you've failed" -<br />
masculinity and forbidden desire in 'The Spanish Gard ener'.' IN:<br />
Kirkham, P. and Thumin, J. (Eds.) You Tarzan - masculinity, movies<br />
and men. Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1993. Though Bogarte is<br />
unconvincing - no attempt at a Spanish accent - this is an very<br />
accomplished film with a top-notch cast)<br />
<br />
Shane. (USA. Classic western. Boy-lovers should adore it)<br />
<br />
The Scamp. 1957. (UK. Dir. Wolf Rilla. Richard Attenborough<br />
stars as a childless schoolteacher who cares for a ten-year-old<br />
working-class boy)<br />
<br />
The Young One. 1961. (Mexico. Interesting if somewhat sordid<br />
early Luis Bunuel film)<br />
<br />
The Greengage Summer. 1961. (UK. Dir. Lewis Gilbert. Complex<br />
romantic drama with Kenneth Moore and Susannah York. From the novel<br />
by Rumer Godden)<br />
<br />
Term Of Trial. 1962. (UK. Dir. Peter Glenville. Schoolteacher<br />
Lawrence Olivier is accused of indecently assaulting a 15 year-old<br />
pupil)<br />
<br />
Lolita. 1962. (USA. Disappointing and shapeless film of the<br />
novel, despite Peter Sellers and Nabokov's Oscar-nominated screenplay.<br />
Available on video)<br />
<br />
Sundays And Cybele. 1962 (French, orig. title 'Cybele ou les<br />
Dimanches'. Moving story about the love between a 30-something<br />
amnesiac and a twelve-year-old orphan girl. Not on video)<br />
<br />
This Special Friendship. 1965 (France. No further details)<br />
<br />
A High Wind In Jamaica. 1965 (UK. Dir. Alexander McKendrick.<br />
Very moving and unconventional melodrama with Anthony Quinn as a<br />
pirate who captures a group of children. Available on video. From<br />
the best-selling 1929 novel by Richard Hughes, whose rec ent biography<br />
shows him to have had a 'Lewis Carroll'type attraction to little<br />
girls)<br />
<br />
Sky West and Crooked. 1966. (UK. Stars Haley Mills. Available<br />
on video)<br />
<br />
Twinky (Italy/US, 1969. Charles Bronson and Susan George;<br />
touching love story, with flashes of comedy, about a young teenage<br />
bride who arrives in New York with her fourty-something husband, and<br />
the problems and prejudices they face. Not really paedoph ile, but<br />
about intergernerational relationships)<br />
<br />
Le Souffle au Coeur. 1970 ? (France. No further details)<br />
<br />
Death In Venice. 1971. (Italy. From the famous novelette by<br />
Thomas Mann. Available on video)<br />
<br />
Mourir d'aimer. 1971. (France. Dir. Andrea Cayette. Fictional<br />
account of the 'Russier affair', when a woman had an affair with an<br />
adolescent during the May 1968 events in Paris. Won the 'Grand Prix<br />
du Cinema Francais', but is now hard to locate)<br />
<br />
The Mark. 1971. (UK. Further details unknown, concerns the<br />
blackmail of a paedophile)<br />
<br />
The Last Snows Of Spring 1973 (Italy. No further details)<br />
<br />
The Offence. 1973. (UK. Dir. Sidney Lumet. Sean Connery and<br />
Ian Bannen star as detective and alleged paedophile, locked in a<br />
battle of wills as Connery gradually realises that it is he who<br />
harbours dark thoughts about children, not the alleged paedophile he<br />
is brutally questioning)<br />
<br />
Paper Moon. 1973. (USA. Charming Oscar-winner. From the novel<br />
'Addie Pray')<br />
<br />
Short Eyes 1977 (USA. Not for the squeamish - an innocent man<br />
accused of child molesting is subject to brutal treatment in prison.<br />
Available on video)<br />
<br />
Pretty Baby. 1978. (USA. Disjointed and rather distastful.<br />
Available on video)<br />
<br />
L'Adolescente. 1979. (French. No further details. Available on<br />
video)<br />
<br />
Little Darlings. 1980. (USA. Purient 'girls coming-of-age'<br />
story. Available on video)<br />
<br />
The Nest. 1981. (Spain. Dir. Jaime De Armenian. No further<br />
details. Available on video in USA.)<br />
<br />
Dreamchild. 1985. (USA/UK. Dir. Gavin Miller. Award-winning<br />
story of Lewis Carroll and his love for the real Alice, Alice Lidell,<br />
and her subsequent life and memories of him. C4 TV movie(?) )<br />
<br />
Lamb. 1988. (UK. Channel Four. Not available on video. From<br />
the novel by Bernard MacLaverty, about an Irish priest who takes a boy<br />
away from a cruel children's home)<br />
<br />
Summer Vacation 1999. 1988. (Japan. Dir. Shusuke Kaneko.<br />
Exquisite gay love story of four schoolboys who stay behind at their<br />
boarding school in the countryside during the summer holidays.<br />
Visually striking, full of mystery and ghostly auras. Not on video)<br />
<br />
Kung Fu Master. 1989. (France. Dir. Agnes Varda. Story of love<br />
between a 40 year old woman and a 15 year old boy)<br />
<br />
"Great Balls Of Fire !" 1989. (USA. Available on video. Story<br />
of Jerry Lee Lewis's romance and marriage with his 13-year-old cousin.<br />
Very positive story)<br />
<br />
The Children. 1990. (UK. Channel Four. From Edith Wharton's<br />
novel, recently reprinted by Virago in the UK. Not available on<br />
video)<br />
<br />
The Stolen Children. 1992. (Italy. Dir. Gianni Amelio. Based<br />
on a true story of a young policeman entrusted to take a 11-year-old<br />
prostitute and her younger brother from Milan to Rome, and the trust<br />
and love that grows between them)<br />
<br />
Leolo. 1993. (Canada. Bizzare family (sex) life of a young boy.<br />
Available on video)<br />
<br />
Voor een Verloren Soldaat. 1992 (Netherlands. Dir. Roeland<br />
Kerbosh. Based on the novel by Rudi van Dantzig, about a boy who<br />
falls in love with a soldier)<br />
<br />
Leon. 1995 (France. Dir. Luc Bresson. Mainstream film about a<br />
hit man and a twelve year old girl, and their love affair.))<br />
<br />
See also the books:<br />
<br />
Sinclair, M. Hollywood Lolitas - the nymphet syndrome in the<br />
movies. Holt. USA, 198?. ISBN 0 8050 0931 0. (Now out-of-print in<br />
USA, but available from the US Ophelia Editions address)<br />
<br />
Goldstien, G.M. and Zornow, E. The Screen Image of Youth - movies<br />
about children and adolescents. New Jersey. Scarecrow Press, 1980.<br />
<br />
<h3>QUALITY FICTION/AUTOBIOGRAPHY/POETRY</h3><br />
<br />
Airey, S. Messer Rondo and other stories by gay men. Gay Men's<br />
Press. London, 1983. ISBN 0 907040 21 7. (Wonderful title novella)<br />
<br />
Bradford, E.E. To Boys Unknown. Gay Men's Press. London, 1988.<br />
(Poems. Bradford was a rural vicar in Norfolk from 1899 to the 1940s)<br />
<br />
Brown, J.D. Addie Pray. (Turned into the Oscar-winning film<br />
'Paper Moon'. Has an extra chapter which takes the story beyond the<br />
film's ending)<br />
<br />
Bey, Hakim (Ed. and translator) O Tribe That Loves Boys - the<br />
poetry of Abu Nuwas. (Fifty-three free translations of pederastic<br />
poems from the poet of Baghdad's '1001 Nights'. Available from the<br />
Intermale address, and possibly from the Gay Men's Press in the UK)<br />
<br />
'Olivia' (Psued. of Dorothy Strachey Bussy.) Olivia. Hogarth<br />
Press, 1949. (Girl-woman loving novel, on the 'dangers' of schoolgirl<br />
crushes with teachers. Later filmed in France and subject of radio<br />
play in UK)<br />
<br />
Califa, Pat. Doc and Fluff - the dystopian tale of a girl and her<br />
biker. Alyson, Boston, 1990. (Science fiction novel depicting<br />
cross-generational relationship)<br />
<br />
Colette. Claudine at School. New York, 1957. (Since reprinted<br />
by Penguin. Woman-girl love)<br />
<br />
Coote, S. (ed.) The Penguin Book Of Homosexual Verse. Penguin.<br />
London, 1986. (Second revised edition. A mixed bunch, but this<br />
contains much to interest lovers of boys, with a variety of<br />
translations from Greek, Roman and Latin poets, and many more Vi<br />
ctorian and contemporary man-boy love poems)<br />
<br />
Men and Boys: an anthology. New York. Coltsfoot Press, 1978.<br />
(Reprint, with commentary, of the 1924 edition of man/boy love poetry)<br />
<br />
Cook, D. Happy Endings. London. Arena, 1989. ISBN 0 09 958300<br />
3. (Winner of the 1977 E.M. Forster Award. Poignant story of a<br />
teacher who loves young girls. Still available in some bookshops in<br />
1993)<br />
<br />
Cook, D. Crying Out Loud. London. Alison, 1988.<br />
<br />
Ferguson, Margaret. Sign of The Ram. Blackiston, Philidelphia,<br />
1957. (Womangirl love)<br />
<br />
Filipacchi, Amanda. Nude Men. Heinemann. London, 1993. (A<br />
weird and magical comedy novel about a licentious 11-year-old and her<br />
seduction of the vulnerable Jeremy Acidophilus. A roller-coaster<br />
plot, and often hilarious, but gets darker towards the e nd)<br />
<br />
Gamble, Peter. The More We Are Together - memoirs of a wayward<br />
life. Paul Watkins, Stamford, UK, 1994. (19.95. Frank<br />
autobiography of a boy-lover, made interesting by the fact that he was<br />
a Church of England priest acting as Chaplain at several lead ing<br />
public schools, including Harrow. H/b Available from the Intermale<br />
address)<br />
<br />
Godden, Rumer. The Greengage Summer. (See 'Films')<br />
<br />
Hughes, Richard. A High Wind in Jamaica. 1929. (See 'Films')<br />
<br />
Holland, Isabelle. The Man Without A Face. Lippincott. New<br />
York, 1972. Reissued: Pan. London, 1993. (A 14 year-old boy becomes<br />
emotionally involved with a disfigured older man, and falls in love.<br />
Very poignant and rather positive, though with an all-too-convenient<br />
ending. Filmed (badly) in 1993 with Mel Gibson and an altered plot)<br />
<br />
John, Edmund. The Flute of Sardonyx. The Old Stile Press,<br />
Llandogo, Wales, 1991. (Limited edition reprint of the best volumes<br />
of Uranian poetry).<br />
<br />
Mann, Thomas. Death In Venice. (1912) London. Penguin, 1992.<br />
(Wonderful novella, utterly moving and beautifully written)<br />
<br />
Maugham, Robin. Behind The Mirror. (No further details.<br />
Mentioned in 'The Death of Narcisuss')<br />
<br />
Moore, Pamela. Chocolates For Breakfast. Rinehart, New York,<br />
1956. (Womangirl love)<br />
<br />
Nabokov, V. Lolita. (1955) London. Penguin, 1993. (The classic<br />
novel, a landmark of world fiction, and quite possibly the finest<br />
novel of the 20th century)<br />
<br />
Anias Nin (Short story 'Little Birds')<br />
<br />
Penna, Sandro. Remember me, God of Love. Carcanet. Manchester,<br />
1993. (Poems of man-boy love and eroticism)<br />
<br />
Pears, Tim. In Place Of Fallen Leaves. Hamilton, 1993.<br />
(First-novel about a 13 year-old Devon farm girl and her relationship<br />
with a shy aristocrat. Not really paedophiliac, but a superb novel)<br />
<br />
Philebus; John, Edmund; and Wright, Cuthbert. Blue Boys. Gay<br />
Men's Press, London, 1990. (Selection of poetry and verse from the<br />
late 1800's, by three Uranian poets)<br />
<br />
Rampling, Anne (pseudonym of Anne Rice) Belinda. MacMillan, 1986.<br />
(First published Arbor House, New York, 1986, then reprinted by<br />
various USA publishers. UK 'Books In Print' lists MacMillan paperback<br />
still in print in UK. Story of a love affair betw een a world-famous<br />
children's book illustrator and a young girl. He produces his very<br />
best work painting and drawing her, but can show it to no-one for fear<br />
it would ruin his career. By a world-famous and hugely popular<br />
writer)<br />
<br />
Reid, Anthony. The Eternal Flame - A world anthology of<br />
homosexual verse. (Volume 1: Greece, Italy, Islam, France.) Dyanthus<br />
Press. New York, 1992. (With first translations of much unknown<br />
material and has much boy-love poetry)<br />
<br />
Rolfe, Frederick. W. (Alias Baron Corvo) The Desire and Pursuit<br />
of the Whole. (1934. Recently reissued in complete edition in UK by<br />
Quartet. Man-boy love novel set in Venice, where Nicholas Crabbe<br />
falls for his servant, the adolescent mutable boy/gi rl Zildo. Also<br />
available from the Prinz Eisenhart address)<br />
<br />
Saikaku, Iharu. (Trans. and Ed. Schalow, P.) The Great Mirror Of<br />
Male Love. 1990. (Japanese man-boy love classic)<br />
<br />
Stewart, Angus. Sandel. Panther Books. London, 1970. (About an<br />
Oxford undergraduate's attraction to choirboys)<br />
<br />
Theroux, Paul. Millroy The Magician. London. Hamish Hamilton,<br />
1993. (Story of Millroy, who spots Jilly, a motherless 14-year-old,<br />
at a country fair, and the relationship that ensues)<br />
<br />
Twain, Mark. My platonic sweetheart. (Twain attempts to distill<br />
his dream landscape and the character of the young girl whom he loves<br />
within it. You may come across the later short work in the Collected<br />
Works (USA edition) in Writings XXVII, pages 287 -304, or in a<br />
collection of the 'Mysterious Stranger' manuscripts)<br />
<br />
Wharton, Edith. The Children (1928) London. Virago, 1985,<br />
reprinted 1994.<br />
<br />
Winsloe, Christa. The Child Manuela. Farrar, New York, 1933.<br />
<br />
X, Victor. The Confessions Of Victor X. (Translated by Rayfield,<br />
D.) New York. Grove Press, 1985. ISBN 0 394 62055 0. (Written in<br />
the early 1900s in pre-revolutionary Russia. A primary inspiration<br />
for Nabokov's 'Lolita')<br />
<br />
Thomas Mann's 'Death In Venice' and Nabokov's 'Lolita' are now<br />
available in the UK in sumptous acid-free paper hardback editions, at<br />
about 9 each from Everyman (althogh 'Lolita' has a fairly hideous<br />
'introduction' by the slimy Martin Amis). A museum de dicated to the<br />
life and work of Vladimir Nabokov (author of Lolita, 1899-1977) is<br />
being planned for his family house in St. Petersburg. Information in<br />
exchange for a small donation (dollar bill ?) from: Valentina<br />
Bushlyaeva, 47 Bolshaya Morskaya Ulitsa, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation.<br />
<br />
You can find some man-boy/adolescent fiction and autobiography<br />
(eg; by Forrest Reid, Richie McMullen, Felice Picano, Casimir Dukahz<br />
[Acolyte's 1991 'Shakespeare's Boy' has a bibliography of his works],<br />
Michael Davidson, Patrick Drevet, Bruno Vogel, Step hen Dueweke, Kevin<br />
Esser, Andre Gould, Bo Huston, Rudi van Dantzig, and Wallace Hamilton)<br />
in the Gay Men's Press catalogue: PÖ. Box 247, LONDON N15 6RW. If<br />
GMP don't stock particular books or authors, you could try putting a<br />
classified advert in Gay T imes or the Pink Paper. For a useful<br />
bibliography of more mainstream fiction, see also: Cueso, Allan.<br />
Homosexual Characters in Young Adult Novels. Scarecrow Press, 1992,<br />
and Young, Ian. The Male Homosexual in Literature. 2nd Ed, 1985.<br />
<br />
If you want to venture overseas for English-language fiction, you<br />
can also order a host of man-boy fiction (rather trashy-looking stuff<br />
like the Acolyte Reader and similar, it must be said) from the<br />
Intermale and Prinz Eisenhart addresses via their mail- order<br />
catalogues from the Prinz Eisenherz and Intermale bookshops - for<br />
addresses see the 'European groups' section.<br />
<br />
Fiction of interest to girl-lovers can be obtained from the<br />
ever-wonderful Ophelia Editions, PO Box 2377, New York, New York,<br />
10185 [Fax (212) 787-5834]. Send $2 for their latest flyers and<br />
price-list. They also do a limited selection of academic books and<br />
expensive art-photographic books. If you are regularly<br />
buying/subscribing mail-order from USA, you might like to ask your<br />
bank about opening a dollar cheque account so you can sent cheques at<br />
a cheaper rate than bank's expensive 'money-orders'. It is also more private as you don't have to declare who you want a money-order made payable to. The same goes for Europe and eurocheques)<br />
<br />
<h3>SONGS</h3><br />
<br />
The Police: 'Don't stand so close to me'.<br />
<br />
Jerry Lee Lewis: 'Sweet little sixteen'.<br />
<br />
The Paragons: 'Hey Little Schoolgirl'<br />
<br />
Chuck Berry: 'School Day'/'Sweet little sixteen'/'Sweet little<br />
rock&amp;roller'/'Little Marie'.<br />
<br />
The Smiths: 'Reel around the fountain'/ 'The hand that rocks the<br />
cradle'/'This charming man'/'Handsome devil'/'I want the one I can't<br />
have'/'Barbarism begins at home'/'Stretch out and wait'.<br />
<br />
The Pet Shop Boys 'Young Offender' <br />
<br />
Morrissey 'Billy Budd'<br />
<br />
<h3>LEGAL REPRESENTATION</h3><br />
<br />
Only about 10 % of child-adult relationship/sex allegations are<br />
brought to court in Britain (Guardian 03.02.94), and most defendents<br />
in non-violent cases are granted bail. Of cases brought to court<br />
about 80% result in a conviction (usually because of a confession),<br />
and of those only 10% are given a custodial prison sentence: and then<br />
usually only in cases of incest, or in the repulsive cases where<br />
coercion/force/violence has been used, or where an adult's position of<br />
authority was misused. However, if accused (even unjustly) in the<br />
current climate of neo-puritan hysteria and zealous Kafka-esque<br />
bureaucracy, it is vital to exercise your right-to-silence, and get<br />
sympathetic independent legal represention. Do not confide in the<br />
legal solicitor's clerk s on 'duty' at police stations, as a recent<br />
report revealed that they can be all too 'chummy' with the police -<br />
just use them to 'back up' your right-to-silence and advise you on<br />
further legal options. Recommended solicitor: Simonetta Hornby, of<br />
Hornby and Le vy, 2 Acre Lane, London SW2 5SG. Obviously, you won't<br />
mention where you found the contact details. You would also be well<br />
advised to relocate or destroy any incriminating collection, however<br />
'innocent' it may appear. If you have been, or fear you may be,<br />
'exposed' in the tabloid newspapers ('News of the World', etc), your<br />
first stop should be the Press Complaints Commission's Help Line: Tel,<br />
071 353 3732.<br />
<br />
<h3>FAMOUS CHILD LOVERS</h3><br />
<br />
(check biographies, autobiographies, diaries, letters): Many<br />
ancient Greek poets and philosophers, Dante, Goethe, Pierre de Ronsard<br />
(1524-1585. French poet.); Cellini (Autobiography reprinted by<br />
Penguin 1993); Remy Belleaue (Fren ch contemporary of Ronsard), Andrew<br />
Marvell (1621-78; famous metaphysical poet and satirist), Samual<br />
Peyps, Novalis, Lord Byron, Lewis Carroll, John Ruskin, Edward Lear,<br />
Charles Kingsley, Edgar Allen Poe, Hugh Walpole, Anton Bruckner<br />
(1824-96; famous Aus trian composer), A.E. Houseman, Mark Twain, Walt<br />
Whitman, Gauguin, [[Benjamin Britten]] (see Faber's 1992 biography and the<br />
letters), E.M. Forster, Frederico Garcia Lorca (Spanish poet and<br />
playwright) J.M. Barrie, Henry James, Andre Gide, Mogidliani (artist, fell in love with Jeanne H when she was 14), Thomas Mann, Forrest Reid, W.H. Auden, Field Marshall Montgomery, Arthur Ransome, John Barrymore (actor), T.H. White, William Carlos Williams (?), Howard Hughes, Lord Baden-Powell (Founder of the Boy-Scouts,<br />
was def<br />
initely gay, and several biogs suspect attraction to young boys), T.E. Lawrence, Sir Roger Casement, Anne Saxton (poet; had incestious relationship with daughter, according to biog.), Charlie Chaplin, Errol Flynn, Lord Reith (founder of the BBC), William Douglas, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Roman Polanski.<br />
<br />
<h3>SOME USEFUL ETHICAL GUIDELINES</h3><br />
<br />
<ol><br />
<li> A paedophile should not seek intimate contact with a child,<br />
without first establishing a friendly relationship with the child, and<br />
knowing and understanding the child's interests and feelings, and<br />
establishing the extent to which his/her own feelings toward the child<br />
are reciprocated.<br />
<br />
</li><li> A loving and affectionate friendship with a child should never<br />
develop into any form of sexual intimacy without the child first fully<br />
understanding and consenting to any sex play, including the social,<br />
legal and medical implications of such an extension of the<br />
relationship.<br />
<br />
</li><li> A child should never be treated as a sexual object to be enjoyed<br />
at the whim of the paedophile. No coercion, force or violence should<br />
ever be used.<br />
<br />
</li><li> A paedophile should not provide his/her young friend with<br />
alcohol, drugs, stimulants or pornography. A paedophile should not<br />
give frequent and/or expensive presents to his/her young friend.<br />
<br />
</li><li> A paedophile must be as honest and truthful as possible with<br />
his/her young friend.<br />
<br />
</li><li> A paedophile should accept the child's right to end the<br />
relationship at any time, or to curtail certain aspects of the<br />
relationship.<br />
<br />
</li><li> A paedophile should not 'cruise' places such as fairgrounds or<br />
parks in order to 'pick up' unknown children.<br />
<br />
</li><li> A paedophile should never take photographs/videos of his/her<br />
young friend.<br />
<br />
</li><li> A paedophile should never introduce his/her young friend to<br />
another paedophile with sexual intent, even if the child has expressed<br />
an interest in doing so.<br />
<br />
</li><li> A paedophile should do everything possible to protect his/her<br />
young friend from any harm; including embarrassment, distress or<br />
exposure because of arrest.<br />
<br />
</li><li> A paedophile should guide and encourage his/her young friend to<br />
avoid drugs and delinquency. A paedophile should nurture and<br />
encourage his/her young friend to develop educationally,<br />
intellectually, artistically and emotionally.<br />
<br />
</li></ol><br />
<br />
<h3>LEGAL AGE OF SEXUAL CONSENT IN MORE ENLIGHTENED EUROPEAN COUNTRIES</h3><br />
<br />
(Most European countries do not have seperate legislation for<br />
homosexual acts, but many have some sort of legislation against<br />
'corruption of minors'. Although intergenerational love is not<br />
frowned upon in Thailand, the police can and do use laws framed for<br />
'kidnapping' to prosecute/blackmail Westerners found in the company of<br />
children)<br />
<br />
Spain - 12; Holland - 12; Portugal - 12; Italy - 14; Austria - 14;<br />
Leichtenstein - 14; Iceland - 14; Bulgaria - 14; Germany - 14; Hungary<br />
- 14; Luxembourg - 14; Turkey - No age of consent; Malta - 12 years<br />
(but there is also a charge of 'corruption of minors' which is in<br />
use); San Marino - 14; Outside Europe: Canada - 14. Japan - 13.<br />
<br />
In Britain, the age of consent was only raised from 12 to 13 in<br />
1875, and finally raised to 16 in 1885. Incest was not made<br />
deliniated as a seperate crime until 1908. "Paedophilia" was a medical<br />
term first coined in 1906, although there is some evidence of earlier use of such terms as 'pedophil'.<br />
<br />
<hr><br />
<br />
Phew, well that's about as complete as I can make it. I dare say<br />
there's a few errors here and there, but on the whole I think this is<br />
a fairly useful resource. Feel free to make additions and corrections<br />
and make further copies and pass on...<br />
<br />
The text above is anti-copyright. Christopher Robin. England,<br />
1994.<br />
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'''Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten''', (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British classical music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces. His best-known works include the opera '''Peter Grimes''' (1945), the '''War Requiem''' (1962) and the orchestral showpiece '''The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra''' (1945).<br />
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Born in Suffolk, the son of a dentist, Britten showed talent from an early age. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London and privately with the composer Frank Bridge. Britten first came to public attention with the ''a cappella'' choral work ''A Boy was Born'' in 1934. With the premiere of ''Peter Grimes'' in 1945, he leapt to international fame. Over the next 28 years, he wrote 14 more operas, establishing himself as one of the leading 20th-century composers in the genre. In addition to large-scale operas for Sadler's Wells and Covent Garden, he wrote "chamber operas" for small forces, suitable for performance in venues of modest size. Among the best known of these is '''The Turn of the Screw''' (1954). Recurring themes in the operas are the struggle of an outsider against a hostile society, and the corruption of innocence.<br />
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Britten's other works range from orchestral to choral, solo vocal, chamber and instrumental as well as film music. He took a great interest in writing music for children and amateur performers, including the opera '''Noye's Fludde''', a '''Missa Brevis''', and the song collection '''Friday Afternoons'''. He often composed with particular performers in mind. His most frequent and important muse was his personal and professional partner, the Peter Pears. Britten was a celebrated pianist and conductor, performing many of his own works in concert and on record. He also performed and recorded works by others, such as Johann Sebastian Bach's '''Brandenburg concertos''', Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's symphonies, and song cycles by Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann.<br />
<br />
Together with Pears and the librettist and producer Eric Crozier, Britten founded the annual Aldeburgh Festival in 1948, and he was responsible for the creation of Snape Maltings concert hall in 1967. In his last year, he was the first composer to be given a life peer age.<br />
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<br />
== Boylove ==<br />
<br />
Throughout his adult life, Britten had a particular rapport with children and enjoyed close friendships with several boys, particularly those in their early teens. The writer John Bridcut sees significance in evidence that Britten mentally regarded himself as perpetually 13 years old. Bridcut views this as manifest both in the Letts diaries Britten bought and used well into his adult life, in which he wrote several statistics relevant to himself when that age,<ref>Bridcut (2006), pp. 1–2</ref> and in his remark to Imogen Holst, "I'm still thirteen".<ref>Bridcut (2006), p. 8</ref> The first such friendship was with Piers Dunkerley, 13 years old in 1934 when Britten was aged 20.<ref>Bridcut (2006), p. 3</ref> Other boys Britten befriended were the young David Hemmings and Michael Crawford, both of whom sang treble roles in his works in the 1950s.<ref>Bridcut (2006), plate 13; and Carpenter, pp. 356–358 and 385</ref> Hemmings later said, "In all of the time that I spent with him he never abused that trust", and Crawford wrote "I cannot say enough about the kindness of that great man... he had a wonderful patience and affinity with young people. He loved music, and loved youngsters caring about music."<br />
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The composer met the thirteen year old son of Hermann Scherchen in 1934. Their relationship lasted six years, and inspired at least one major work, '''Young Apollo'''.<ref>Lie back and think of Britten "Adam Mars-Jones finds that John Bridcut has set himself a daunting task in Britten's Children - to prove whether 'Darling Benjamin' was a mentor or a menace to boys" Sunday June 4, 2006; The Observer [9]</ref><br />
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Britten also slept with 13 year old Bobby Rothman: {{quote| "When Britten stayed with the Rothman family, he shared a room with the thirteen-year-old Bobby:<br />
many an evening we used to spend […] a lot of time just really talking he in the bed next to me […] His fondness for me was something that was beyond my normal social connections, and I was a little overwhelmed that someone should be so fond of me […] I can still remember us talking late at night one time, and finding when it was really time to call it quits and go to sleep […] he said, ‘Bobby, would you mind terribly if, before we fell asleep, I came over and gave you a hug and a kiss?’ It was just one of those touching moments […] And I’ve got to say I really did not know what to do except say, ‘no, no I don’t mind’, and he gently got up and gave me a gentle hug and kiss and said goodnight.<ref>cite book |last1=Mitchell D. |first1=Reed P. |title=Letters from a Life Volume 3 (1946-1951): The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten |date=2011 |publisher=Faber & Faber |asin=B008E5PYZY |pages=784 |accessdate=27 April 2016</ref>}}<br />
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It was long suspected by several of Britten's close associates that there was something exceptional about his attraction to boys: Auden referred to Britten's "attraction to thin-as-a-board juveniles;... to the sexless and innocent",<ref>Carpenter, p. 164</ref> and Pears once wrote to Britten: "remember there are lovely things in the world still– children, boys, sunshine, the sea, Mozart, you and me".<ref>Bridcut (2006), p. 6</ref> In public, the matter was little discussed during Britten's lifetime and much discussed after it.The journalist Martin Kettle wrote in 2012 that although there is no evidence of wrongful conduct, it is important that allegations of [[pedophilia]] be openly discussed, both to avoid covering up criminal behavior and to avoid oversimplifying the complexity of Britten's sexuality and creativity.<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/21/britten-boys-obsession-cannot-ignore</ref> Carpenter's 1992 biography closely examined the evidence, as do later studies of Britten, most particularly John Bridcut's '''Britten's Children''' (2006), which concentrates on Britten’s friendships and relationships with various children and adolescents. Some commentators have continued to question Britten's conduct, sometimes very sharply.<ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/biographyandmemoirreviews/9857511/Benjamin-Britten-by-Paul-Kildea-review.html</ref><ref>http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/richardmorrison/article2045275.ece</ref> Carpenter and Bridcut conclude that he held any sexual impulses under firm control and kept the relationships affectionate, including bed-sharing, kissing and skinny dipping, but strictly platonic.<ref>http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:UKNB:GRDC&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=1129E6B3B2F7A350&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=102CDD40F14C6BDA</ref> <ref>http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:UKNB:DSTC&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=11234EEF7B59EC88&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=102CDD40F14C6BDA</ref><br />
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In the writing "This Day In Pedo History: February 25" it states:{{quote| <br />
*1935 - '''"I write the songs that make the young boys sing"''' - Britten's a cappella choral composition called A Boy Was Born had its debut performance on this date. Being the good pedo that he was, he composed it specifically to be performed, in part, by a boys choir. This was one of his first major works to receive critical acclaim, and helped to fully launch his career. The title might suggest to some a pedoish theme to the piece, but in fact it refers to the birth of Jesus, the story of a completely different type of boy worship.<ref name="tdiphfeb25">{{cite news |author= Author unknown|title=''This Day In Pedo History: February 25'' |date=2003 |accessdate= 3-10-15}} </ref> }}<br />
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== See Also ==<br />
*[https://www.boywiki.org/en/Historical_boylove_relationships#20th_century Historical boylove relationships]<br />
*[[Pederastic Relationships in History]]<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
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<div><div style="margin-left: 25px; float: right;">__TOC__</div>'''Backyard Politics For Minor-attracted Adults'''<br />
<br />
By '''Jay Edson'''.<br />
<br />
A Primer for Political Action in an Impossible Situation<br />
<br />
:''In the sweet name of''<br />
:''Protecting the little ones...'' <br />
:''Such atrocities!''<br />
<br />
:''The Inquisition'' <br />
:''Reigns, its own creations the'' <br />
:''True monstrosities.''<br />
<br />
==Introduction==<br />
<br />
In the popular imagination, any individual who experiences a significant emotional/sexual attraction to “children” is called a “pedophile” and is portrayed in the mass media as a kind of monster. If you find yourself in this group you naturally ask whether you are in fact a psychological and spiritual freak – an genetic mistake that should never have been born. Are the majority right in their apparently unshakable consensus about your nature? And suppose they are wrong. Is there anything that you can do to improve your situation?<br />
<br />
If we are looking only at attraction to pubescent and pre-pubescent individuals, research suggests that between 25 and 30% of men are attracted to children in these age categories to an extent that is at least equal to the attraction they feel for sexually mature individuals. (See, for example, Godeon, C, Hall, N, Hirshsman, R and Oliver, L., “Sexual Arousal and Arousability to Pedophilic Stimuli in a Community Sample of Normal Men.” Behavior Therapy, 1995, 26). That is a very large number of people. But society now defines “children” as people up the age of eighteen – which obviously includes a very large number of sexually mature individuals. The number of men who are attracted to these older “children” is much larger. It seems reasonable to surmise that virtually all males who are not exclusively child-oriented feel attracted to people who are socially defined as “children” but who are sexually mature. Hormones, after all, are not controlled by social definitions and norms. So depending on how we define “children” and thus understand who is a “pedophile” we find that anywhere from 25% to almost 100% of men fall into this category. That's an awful lot of people to demonize.<br />
<br />
For a variety of reasons, it is much more difficult to assess what percentage of women might find different categories of males and females attractive, but one can presume that attractions to “inappropriate” sexual objects is probably quite common. Again the question of how we are to define our terms is important. An unknown number of women experience genital arousal during breast feeding. The similarity of breast feeding to coitus has been pointed out by a number of authors. (See, for example, Floyd Martinson in the ''Sexual Life of Children'' – especially Chapter 1 on early developmental experiences. Bergin and Garvey, 1994. ) There is no reason to consider women who feel an intense erotic bond with the infant during breastfeeding abnormal. Some feel that the experience would be almost universal if it were not so strongly inhibited. If that is true, then almost all women have a strong pedophilic element in their natures. Even setting aside the issue of breastfeeding, however, books such as “The Beautiful Boy” by Germain Greer suggest that a great many women are not oblivious to the charms of older children.<br />
<br />
As we try to nail down the meaning of the word “pedophile” we find that it is more than a little vague in its popular usage. Terms such as “homosexual” “heterosexual” can also be problematic. Certainly what the term “normal” designates is more a political than a scientific question. In order to side step all this confusion, perhaps another term might be worth defining. This term is “bonding profile.” The concept of a bonding profile is based on the assumption that virtually all people are attracted emotionally and sexually to a variety of types of individuals. Most people probably experience some degree of attraction to adults of the same sex, adults of the opposite sex, and to “children” (whatever we mean by this term) of either sex. The relative intensity of these different attractions varies from individual to individual, and the whole pattern constitutes each individual's “bonding profile”. Bonding profiles cannot meaningfully be designated as either “normal” or “abnormal.” They simply are. The concept is similar to what John Money referred to as a person's “love map.”<br />
<br />
For our purposes, we will use the term “minor attracted adults” and define that as all adults who find people who are socially defined as “children” as attractive or more attractive than individuals defined as “adults.” From the facts we have already pointed out, we can surmise that minor-attracted adults constitute the largest stigmatized and persecuted group in the country. Indeed it may include a clear numerical majority of people.<br />
<br />
Given the prevalence of strong attractions to minors, and the intensity of the persecution, it might seem surprising at first glance that very little political action is in evidence with regard to this issue. The reason for this dearth of political action is not hard to find. Sexual self-determination is denied to a wide range of individuals, from pre-pubescent people to those whose secondary sexual characteristics are fully developed but who are nevertheless not recognized as “adults” in our society. Sexual contact with this broad class of people is forbidden by those who are perceived as adults. Merely to confess that one finds pubescent and prepubescent individuals attractive can be an act of social suicide. To ever act upon such impulses, or even to give the appearance of such action, opens one to the possibility of devastating economic legal and social consequences. In such a climate, political action seems virtually impossible. <br />
<br />
Most minor-attracted individuals go to great lengths to keep the nature of their bonding profile a [[secret]] even from those closest to them. This may provide for a modicum of safety, but at a great cost. The cost of such a choice is a life plagued by shame, fear, and loneliness. In other words, even if individuals are never “outed” and are perceived as “normal,” the inner ramifications of discovering unacceptable impulses within one's bonding profile are still very significant. One would assume, for example, that a significant portion of teenage suicide is connected to the difficulties young individuals face when they realize that socially condemned impulses are very strong within them.<br />
<br />
The primary thesis of this pamphlet is that in order to improve their situation, minor-attracted adults must become political. The secondary thesis is that despite the general hysteria that consumes the general public, despite the draconian laws that provide outlandishly severe punishments, and despite the examples on web-based pillories of what happens to people who have dared to break any of the laws, political action is possible. <br />
<br />
Political action is needed for three reasons. First, only through political action can individuals begin to overcome a sense of self as helpless, shameful, and inferior. Second, political action is needed so that individuals do not live out their lives in isolation regarding matters of central importance to them. Third, ultimately only through political action initiated by minor-attracted adults, will the external situation be improved. Although other groups and individuals may ultimately prove to be supportive and sympathetic to the cause of minor-attracted adults, every minority must assume primary responsibility for its own emancipation. <br />
<br />
What then can minor-attracted adults do with regard to political action, that will eventually lead to some possibility of social change? Indeed, what can minor-attracted adults do politically without being utterly destroyed? I would suggest that quite a number of things can be done, in relative safety, that will in fact eventually lead to significant social change. Furthermore I would maintain that you and I can begin immediately, whatever our situation is, and however isolated we are. We do not need to wait until we have been elected to national and state legislatures or have the ability to conduct parades and mass rallies. Politics is a multifaceted activity that aims to change norms and power relations in a society. While ultimately political action aims at changing the situation in which we live, it begins inside our own heads, where we must learn to think differently.<br />
<br />
Here then is a beginning list of things that you and I can do starting today, in our own backyard. I say a “beginning” list because hopefully this list will grow, with your contributions.<br />
<br />
==Get Informed==<br />
<br />
Effective political action must begin with accurate information. This is especially important with regard to issues related to minor-attracted adults. The popular media is awash with misinformation. Both in terms of how we see ourselves, and how the general public sees us, it is crucial that this misinformation be challenged. A good starting point might be to review the information in the following little essay, called “Factoids.”<br />
<br />
:'''Factoids and the Sex Abuse Panic'''<br />
<br />
:Sex offenders in the US have been subjected to a large variety of draconian laws and practices. Many of these laws are highly questionable from a constitutional point of view. They also serve to make the world a more dangerous place for everybody -- not only for the sex offenders and their families -- but for the young people they purport to protect as well. Whatever a person might think about sex offenders and their treatment in this society, surely we can all agree on the need for a rational and informed discussion of the issue. One of the main obstacle in the way of the needed discussion is the huge amount of misinformation that is published in the nation's media. This misinformation is largely in the form of factoids. <br />
<br />
:A factoid is a statement of presumed fact that people believe to be true because they hear it repeated over and over. The extensive use of factoids has been a central strategy of those who appear motivated to maintain a high level of sex abuse hysteria. Here are a few examples of common factoids:<br />
<br />
:'''1. Factoid: The “pedophile” is set apart from most men because he finds children or adolescents sexually attractive.'''<br />
<br />
:'''Fact:''' a study of randomly selected “normal” men at Kent State University (Hall, G. N., Hirschman, R, and Oliver, L. 1995) discovered that “20% of the current subjects self-reported pedophilic interest and 26.25% exhibited penile arousal to pedophilic stimuli that equaled or exceeded arousal to adult stimuli.”<ref>[http://www.mhamic.org/sources/halletal.htm The Kent State Study]</ref><br />
<br />
:'''2. Factoid: The “pedophile” is a violent man who forces himself on children.'''<br />
<br />
:'''Fact:''' Michael Baurmann in the largest study of child abuse ever carried out discovered that in 80% of all cases of reported illegal sexual contacts “the perpetrator had exhibited something other than threatening or violent behavior.”<ref name=Baurmann>[http://baurmann.gnustories.com/ BOYWIKI EDITOR'S NOTE: Site defunct, see https://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/baurmann_sum.htm <br />
Baurmann, Michael. “Sexuality, Violence, and Psychological Sequalae.” 1983, Wiesbaden: Federal German Police Bureau, pg. 291. (English Translation)]</ref><br />
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:'''3. Factoid: The activities of the “pedophile” are always traumatizing and cause great harm to the “victims.”'''<br />
<br />
:'''Fact:''' In their study “A Meta-Analytic Review of Findings from National Samples on Psychological Correlates of Child Sexual Abuse,” Rind and Tromovitch (1998) came to the following conclusion: “CSA [child sexual abuse] is not associated with pervasive harm and that harm, when it occurs, is not typically intense.” This peer reviewed article appeared in the most prestigious psychological journal in the US.<ref>http://www.tegenwicht.org/13_rbt_eng/rbt_files.htm</ref><br />
<br />
:'''4. Factoid: The “pedophile” is unable to control himself and will always “re-offend.”'''<br />
<br />
:'''Fact:''' One of the more extensive studies on this issue is called “Recidivism of Sex Offenders Released from Prison in 1994” It is available from the US Department of Justice. (Langan, P, Schmitt, E., and Durose, M., 2003) According to this study, “Within the first three years following release from prison, 3.3% (141 of 4,296) of released child molesters were rearrested for another sex crime against a child.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20040405215414/http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/rsorp94.pdf</ref><br />
<br />
:'''5. Factoid: The “pedophile” is a brutish, primitive, self centered person who is incapable of empathy.'''<br />
<br />
:'''Fact:''' Who have been some well known pedophiles? (I will use this term to mean a person who is strongly attracted to children or young adolescents.) Here are a few: Thomas Mann, James Barrie, Lewis Carroll, Alan Ginsberg, Walt Whitman, T.E. White, W. H. Auden, and last but not least Shakespeare. Most people who know anything about these people would not see them as brutish and primitive.<br />
<br />
:'''6. Factoid: Minors never feel positive about their relationships with older partners if there is a sexual component in that relationship.''' <br />
<br />
:'''Fact:''' Heinz Kohut, the founder of “Self Psychology” and one of the most important psychological theorists of the 20th Century reported that "I had this private tutor, who was a very important person in my life. He would take me to museums and swimming and concerts and we had endless intellectual conversations and played complicated intellectual games and played chess together." They also did sexual things together, which they both enjoyed, but Kohut felt the sex was more or less incidental. The important thing for him was the relationship. He said "I was an only child. So it was in some way psychologically life-saving for me. I was very fond of this fellow." Heinz was about 10 or 11 at the time. He describes his years with his tutor as being perhaps the happiest ones in his life. (Strozier, 2001. “Heinz Kohut: The making of a Psychoanalyst.” PP. 95 and 96.)<br />
<br />
:(If a person were interested in how relationships typically appeared to the younger partner in a more permissive society, he or she could read “Boys and Their Contacts with Men” by Theo Sandfort.)<br />
<br />
:'''7. Factoid: Every one convicted of sexually abusing a child was also abused as a child.”'''<br />
<br />
:'''Fact:''' In “Self-Reported Sexual Interest in Children: Sex Differences and Psychosocial Correlates in a University Sample,” Smiljanich and Briere report that no statistically significant relationship was found between childhood sexual abuse and adult attraction to children. A small correlation between childhood sexual experiences and adult sexual behavior toward children has been reported in studies using prison populations, but no responsible researcher has ever suggested that every child abuser was abused as a child.<ref>http://www.mhamic.org/sources/smiljanich&briere.htm</ref><br />
<br />
:'''8. Factoid: Children are not able to consent to a sexual relationship with an older partner.'''<br />
<br />
:'''Fact:''' Before saying whether this is true or not it is first necessary to determine what the statement means. If it means that they are not legally permitted to make such decisions, the statement is true providing the child falls within the age range of people who are not permitted to make their own decisions about their sexual lives. If it means that they cannot make an “informed decision” and by this use of the term it is meant that they cannot see all the possible ramifications of their decision, this is also true. But it is true of every important decision anyone of any age ever makes. So by itself it has only a very limited meaning. If it means that children are not able to express their disinclination to do something they don't want if they are in a relationship with an older person, it is untrue. Anyone who has ever tried to get a child to eat something he or she does not like, or do his or her homework when a special program was on TV or tried to get a child to go to bed when she or he did not want to knows this is not true. Children do in fact know what they want, and in a situation where they are permitted to say yes or no, they are quite capable of doing so in accordance with their real wishes.<br />
<br />
:'''9. Factoid: There is a natural progression in the “career” of the typical sex offender from minor and non-violent offenses to acts of violence or even murder.'''<br />
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:'''Fact:''' A person who has engaged in sexual activity with a child or young adolescent that is non-violent and consensual is no more likely to progress toward violent acts that is the heterosexual or homosexual person who is sexually active with adults. Michael Baurmann, in the conclusion to the study cited above, gives great emphasis to the fact that exhibitionists, non-violent individuals who have disregarded social norms, and violent sexual offenders are three very distinct groups. He says that “the uncritical conflation of these three groups, combined with anxious attitudes regarding sexuality, prevent the rational discussion of deviant sexual behavior that we so desperately need.” He points out that people who have committed violent acts of any kind against people are more likely to commit violent sexual acts than are non-violent sexual offenders. (Pg. 468). <br />
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:'''10. Factoid: Children do not experience significant sexual urges until after puberty. This factoid is frequently expressed by the affirmation that children are "innocent."'''<br />
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:'''Fact:''' Mary Calderone, an internationally recognized pioneer in the field of human sexuality sums up what is known about this very nicely. "What do we know about childhood sexuality? First of all, that it exists in every child ... from birth, even before birth. ...Both boy and girl babies discover by the end of their first year that penis and clitoris are sources of pleasurable sensations when touched. Parents tend to equate puberty with the onset of sexual feelings [but] sexual responsiveness [is] present from before birth." From SIECUS Report VIII (2). From an anthropological point of view Floyd Martinson makes the following point: "Anthropologists have complained for years that both the hormone and the psychoanalytic theories failed to account for the sexual activities of young children in certain primitive societies. United States data have shown the romantic interest in the opposite sex begins in infancy or early childhood, depending on the degree of permissiveness and stimulation in the social environment. In Wolman and Money, "Handbook of Human Sexuality" pg. 31. <br />
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:'''11. Factoid: Homosexual contacts between men and boys are a particularly damaging form of sexual abuse.''' <br />
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:'''Fact:''' Baurmann, in his summary of the German study “Sexuality, Violence, and Psychological Sequalae.” by the Federal German Police Bureau states that "homosexual contacts played no important statistical or criminological role in this study. On the one hand, they composed only 10-15% of the cases, and on the other, the sexual contacts were described by the victims themselves as "harmless", almost exclusively without the use of violence by the suspect (page 287), and as a result, none of the male victims questioned felt themselves to have been injured. In addition no injury could be determined in these cases with the help of test procedures.<ref name=Baurmann/><br />
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In addition to the factoid list, here are a few links to places where a person who is interested in facts might begin to inform himself or herself:<br />
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Attracted To Children -- http://web.archive.org/web/20091219143407/http://www.attractedtochildren.org/<br />
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Accounts_and_Testimonies -- https://web.archive.org/web/20080725060041/http://newgon.com/wiki/Accounts_and_Testimonies#Minors.27_relationships_with_Adults<br />
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Legal Issues and Court Cases: affecting sex offenders -- http://web.archive.org/web/20091026235529/http://geocities.com/eadvocate/issues/<br />
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Love and Liberation -- http://web.archive.org/web/20111123005933/http://www.loveandliberation.info/webpages.html <br />
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IPCE (A scholarly On-line Library) -- http://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/index.htm <br />
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Male Homosexual Attraction to Minors Information Center -- http://www.mhamic.org/index.htm <br />
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The Origins of Peace and Violence -- http://www.violence.de/ <br />
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Pedophilia -- Some Answers -- http://www.boylover.net/reference/index.php?page=pedophilia---some-answers<br />
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Reform Sex Offender Laws – http://reformsexoffenderlaws.org/index.ph/ <br />
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BOYWIKI EDITOR'S NOTE: The website has changed radically since the above link was posted. Archived copies may be found here: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://reformsexoffenderlaws.org/<br />
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A 2011 example of the site may be found here: http://web.archive.org/web/20111222010325/http://www.reformsexoffenderlaws.org/<br />
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You Found Me (A Challenging Personal Blog) -- http://youfoundme.org/<br />
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==Inform Others==<br />
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One need not conduct a complicated piece of social research, write the Great American novel, or produce a full-length book in order to do meaningful work with regard to informing the general public. In fact probably the most useful work will be done by many people challenging bits of misinformation that they find in newspapers, on chat groups, and in ordinary conversations between individuals. When such misinformation is found it is useful to point it out. A brief letter to a local newspaper that identifies a bit of mis-information in a column or news story, and that provides corrective information, along with a reference where the validity of the correct information can be verified, is a powerful political act. A similar comment in a chat group or simply made verbally in a conversation among family or friends can be equally powerful. Generally speaking involved arguments should probably be avoided. The current atmosphere of hysteria and persecution is supported by misinformation. When the misinformation is successfully challenged the basis for the current laws and social practices will collapse.<br />
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One technique that might be useful would be to send copies of the factoid sheet to key politicians, educators, writers, and people in the public media. Even if the factoid sheet is not published in a newspaper or other media outlet to which it is sent, the fact that the writers in the public media have this information may modify the way they present stories in the future.<br />
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Efforts to educate the public can expose a person to a lot of abuse. Here is one activist's explanation of why he persists in spite of some very negative reactions. <br />
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:"''My form of activism consists of posting on listservs and other websites which may have nothing directly to do with pedophilia. As such, the members may represent a cross-section of the population, or a particular subset (e.g. teachers).''<br />
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:''I attempt to respond to a post which may only be peripherally related to pedophilia in a way that causes the reader to rethink his preconceived notions on the subject. This is most often covert except when the subject specifically is pedophilia.''<br />
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:''It is in the latter cases where I encounter the troubling or hostile posts, especially if it is a forum open to the general public, e.g. U-Tube. There comments are limited to 500 characters so one cannot really go into too much depth, although with persistence one can post a bunch of 500-character posts to make a longer point. But that is where you meet people in the "raw" state.''<br />
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:''Recently I had this exchange:''<br />
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::''Me: "Some people like to complain that the Rind study is outdated even though it is only ten years old. Well, here is a new one:''<br />
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::''From Archives of Sexual Behavior, 5 June 2009: "Boyhood Sexual Experiences with Older Males."''<br />
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::''In this study, David Riegel reports the results that "the majority [of boys] reported that they consented (in the simple, non-legal sense), enjoyed the sexual experiences at the time, and experienced no ill effects afterward."''<br />
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::''Read it at sebrom.info'' <br />
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::''which immediately brought this response:''<br />
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:::''"fuck you..you are a peophile..so deal with it if people insult you stop nbeong a fucking pussy..and stop with the BULLSHIt!!!it isnt ok to have sex with kids so go get ome help okay you habve a MENTAL DISORDER!!!!"''<br />
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:''This is typical of many haters who post there, suggesting various ways in which I should be drawn, quartered, castrated, stung up, etc. I try not to return the abuse, but sometimes the really persistent ones do get the better of me.''<br />
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:''Some ask me, "Why do you continue to post there and waste time with such Neanderthals?" First of all, such ignorant posters are the worst case scenario. I am often pleasantly surprised by some who are supportive or offer reasoned comments. And sometimes people will even contact me privately for help. But the main reason I persist is that my aim is not to convince any single poster. Rather, I want the word to get out to as many others as possible. For every one who posts, there are probably 100 who do not. They are my audience.''"<br />
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==Refuse To Internalize Society's Hysterical Images==<br />
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The first benefit from becoming better informed comes to oneself. On the basis of new information one can resist internalizing the images that one finds in the mass media. An informed person does not have to allow people who are ignorant and hysterical to paint his or her portrait. Informed people who have already been “outed” and demonized know that they are not as they are visualized in the quasi-psychotic imagination of their neighbors. Or if they have not “come out,” they know that their [[secret]] self is not as others might see it.<br />
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So long as minor-attracted adults internalize the images of themselves that they find in newspapers, magazines, TV shows, and the like, they will remain paralyzed by shame and will cower in the shadows of society. Meaningful and effective political activity by such shame driven and self hating individuals is not possible. The revolution must begin in our own heads, with the establishment of more positive self images that are based on facts.<br />
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Some minor attracted adults never do internalize society's view of them. Here is an interesting, in which the writer explains why this was not a problem for him. <br />
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:"''I recently had lunch with a friend who knows I am forced to be on the national registration for sex offenders. We were discussing how the words of hatred that are used to describe “boy lovers”, men who are emotionally and sexually attracted to boys, cause so much internalization of self loathing. The question was raised as to why I didn't have those feelings and why I never internalized all the many negative things that were and are being said about me.''<br />
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:''I think and feel that the reason I suffered little self loathing is because I myself was a “loved boy”. I had a relationship with and older man when I was 11 years old. I know in my heart and mind he never did or never wanted to hurt me. When I hear the negative comments in the national press, Oprah type shows and people I meet, the “bad words” mean nothing to me. I lived the life of a loved boy. I know what they are saying is not true.''"<br />
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Not everybody is that fortunate. Probably in a majority of cases minor attracted adults do internalize, to one degree or another, the negative stereotypes that one sees daily in the mass media. Most will need some help extricating themselves from the oppressive influence of these images.<br />
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==Come Out Of The Closet – Gradually==<br />
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Being outed as a member of the most despised group in one's community can obviously be devastating. The following description of the experience by a self identified girl-lover is not a-typical. The writer, a sixteen year old boy, had been outed by the Perverted Justice group. He is writing in a forum for the support of girl lovers, but is addressing his persecutors. <br />
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:"''Congratulations! You've ruined the life of a 16year old kid. You hated him so much you started cataloging everything he said when he just started posting at 14. Congratulations! You save the fucking children [you] misguided Son of bitches. Why didn't you save me? What have I done do deserve all of this? TELL me. Am I really some kind of fucking monster? REALLY? I'm afraid of my own shadow. When I was happy, I was the nicest sweetest brightest person I could be. I tried every day to wake up with a smile. Hell, that's still even my goal though it seems unobtainable. So what am I supposed to do? I have a life full of regrets, and a future I don't even wanna think about.''"<br />
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Even if the outing is only to one's own family the consequences can be stressful in the extreme. Here is the description of a young man whose continuing membership in his family became problematic after they learned about his bonding profile. This account is pieced together from two posts that the writer submitted to a group that was supportive to boy lovers.<br />
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:"''I'm 17 and my parents know I'm paedosexual and that I'm proud of it. They at first seemed to accept it reasonably well, however a new situation is developing which they seem to be very uncomfortable with. I've recently managed to get a 12 year old YF, who is a friend of my younger brother.''<br />
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:''I usually see this YF in a situation where there are lots of people around and also quite often when my brother invites him over to the house etc. Anyway, I was with my YF on Sunday and my Dad appeared to be trying to prevent me spending time with this YF. Well, I completely lost control and almost had a fight with my Dad in the middle of a street. He didn't mention the fact that he was trying to prevent me seeing this YF because I'm paedosexual, but it was obvious enough.''<br />
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:''Anyway, today I brought it up with my parents, first my Mum, then my Dad. My Mum said she knows I'm not a danger to boys (I hope she means that) and she was quite upset that I wasn't sure that I believed her. I think she accepts that I'm a decent person as regards respecting boys.''<br />
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:''[My Dad] believes that it's "inappropriate" for a 17 year old to spend time with a 12 year old. I guess someone must be sending telepathic signals to my YF, which forces him to LOVE being around me!''<br />
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:''I rarely feel lost. I always have an answer to everything, regardless of whether it makes much sense or not.''<br />
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:''Now, however, I do not know what to do.''<br />
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:''I have told my Dad that I hate him and I don't want to spend time with him any longer.''<br />
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:''I am uninterested in living with my family and I only live with them now because I need the financial support; there is no way that someone as angry as me can have a job. I cannot function correctly. I have chest pains, I feel tired, I feel awful.''<br />
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:''Why does everything good which happens in my life *always* get destroyed?"''<br />
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So if being outed is quite likely to destroy everything good in one's life, why would it ever be a good thing? Consider this description of a person who was “outed” in the most extreme way. <br />
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:''"Seeing myself demonized in the newspaper was horrifying. The year during which I anticipated the prison sentence that I knew was inevitable was torture. The experience of prison was an even deeper hell than I had anticipated. The “treatment” group was the most deeply humiliating experience of my life. If I were faced with all this again, would I prefer death? Absolutely. Yet now that it is done, even though my external life continues to be constricted, I am in some ways happier than I have ever been. They have done their best and I have not allowed them to paint my portrait. My relationships with other people are more honest than they have ever been. When I have a good experience with someone else I am no longer plagued by the question that always used to nag at me: yes, they seem to like me, but what if they knew who I really was?'' <br />
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:''How can I sum it up? It was, when all is said and done, liberating. If I were once again a respected member of society – with my true nature hidden, would I pray for such a liberation? I am sure I would think more than twice about it. But liberation it was."''<br />
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Of course situations occur in which one is outed whether one wishes for it or not. For the majority of people, however, some degree of choice is possible. What is advisable then? With the possible exception of an absolutely trusted friend or significant other, I think it is almost never worth the risk to let anyone know of events that could have legal repercussions. It should be kept in mind that very few people are able to control their tongues. Beyond this, it is difficult to say what is best.<br />
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In some cases to come out completely may not be advisable or possible. However there are degrees of being in the closet. Anyone can connect up with a boy-love or girl-love group on the Internet with almost no risk at all. This will give the person an initial experience of hearing how other people with similar feelings think, and will provide the opportunity to share one's own thoughts and feelings with others. It is a place where one's new identity can be tested. Following this perhaps one can “come out” with one or two very close friends that can be trusted. It is incredibly liberating to be who one actually is with at least a few other human beings. The most useful way to formulate the issue of “coming out” is to ask to what degree, and in what contexts, should I “come out”? For different individuals the answer will not be the same. But to formulate the matter in an absolute way – I am either totally in the closet, or totally out – is a recipe for paralysis. For most of us it would be much more productive to come out gradually, testing the waters at each step.<br />
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Each person must find his or her own way between the Scylla of loneliness and isolation and the Charybdis of social condemnation and punishment. But everybody needs to have at least one friend or group with whom he can be who he is. <br />
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==Network with like-minded individuals==<br />
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As we come out of the closet we begin to develop friendship networks, and eventually political networks, with other like-minded individuals. These networks need not have any official organization, or name. They are simply networks of individuals who know one another, support one another, and work together. Invariably some people will be members of more than one network, and consequently networks will become interconnected. In this way the possibilities of various kinds of support, and access to information and other resources, will be greatly expanded. Possibilities for meaningful action will also be expanded. We will find out that, as the title of that liberating movie suggests, ''We Are Not Alone''.<br />
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The following account is written by a person who we will call Mike. Mike was fairly well known in the field of preventive health care. Because of his speaking too freely about his love of boys, he was accused of illegal activities and vilified in more than one newspaper. As the result of reading one of these articles, Jake, a colleague in the field of health care came to visit him, and confessed that he too had similar feelings about boys. They were able to talk openly about their experiences, and this marked the emergence of a new and supportive network of relationships coming into Mike's life.<br />
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:"''As result of my being vilified and outed, I often felt I was in a kind of prison without walls. Fortunately, however, as some doors closed to me, others miraculously opened. My unforeseen interchange with Jake was the start of a whole new network of understanding and supportive friends, including a number of men who, like me, were attracted to boys. I found myself at the doorway of a largely underground sector of the community that I had formerly had little knowledge of.'' <br />
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:''Jake gave me some good leads. Through him I discovered that several other activists in the international health field – persons whose commitment to social justice I had long admired – also had an affinity for young men. One turned out to be a close friend of mine in the Philippines, a highly regarded leader of the Community Based Health Care movement there. Another was a professor at a nearby University – also a good friend – who coordinated an excellent program for volunteer students overseas. Until I talked with Jake, I’d no idea of these friends’ feelings toward boys, nor they of mine. Now, thanks to course of events, we have been able to “come out” to each other, and our friendships have grown much closer. We are there for each other in times of need.''"<br />
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To the extent that they are outed, minor attracted adults are shunned by the rest of society. The surprising thing here is that people who consider themselves to be progressives are often in the forefront of this shunning process, parroting the same mis-information and stirring up the same hysteria as right wing extremists. This can be devastating in the extreme. Human beings are social animals. We are not meant to live out our lives in isolation. Probably the only way most minor attracted people can find a genuine sense of belonging is by networking with others who share their feelings.<br />
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==Find Safe And Shame-free Releases For Ones Sexual Frustrations==<br />
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This is perhaps the touchiest issue to deal with. Let's face it, though, we are in fact sexual creatures, and most of us have fairly strong urges that seek some kind of release. Something more than simply “just say no” is necessary. On the other hand engaging in illegal activities can be risky both for one's own self, and for the younger partner. Each individual will need to put together whatever works for himself or herself. However the starting point for any realistic plan for dealing with one's own frustrations is to try to free oneself from shame. The only shameful thing we can do is to hurt others. Whatever outlet we find for ourselves that is harmless should be engaged in without fear or shame.<br />
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For some of us the solution may be fairly simple. If we have more than one strong place in our bonding profile, the satisfactions that we experience with our partners who are legal will make it easier to tolerate the frustrations that we experience in other areas of our lives. This enables us to keep our relationships with our younger friends on a safe footing. For some of us the experience of being physically and emotionally close to younger people may satisfy most of our needs most of the time. While this may be sufficient for some, probably many individuals will need to add some sort of explicit sexual release in the form of masturbation. It seems sensible to go ahead and release the tensions in a safe and harmless manner rather than to try to bottle them up and be driven by them, with the risk that one might be tempted into activities that are dangerous for everyone. Although we still struggle with this issue because of a long heritage of puritanism, it's important to understand that masturbation is not either shameful or sinful for adults anymore than it is for children. If it's the best option a person has, then it should be used without hesitation.<br />
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I am not arguing that most of the illegal activities that we might desire would in fact be intrinsically damaging if they were mutually desired. It can be argued that if the younger partner is aware to a reasonable degree of what is entailed in the relationship, a relationship that includes a sexual dimension can be entered into with an acceptable level of safety. Also, it does seem to me that we owe no absolute obedience to an authority that has intruded far past its legitimate limits in trying to impose restrictions on people's love lives. The fact is, however, that in the present social reality such activities generally entail very serious risks not only for the older person, but for the younger partner as well. For this reason, it would seem that the default position for everybody should be to simply avoid illegal activities. It should also be noted that if people are going to become politically active in any visible way, their lives are likely to be scrutinized more carefully than other peoples. It is questionable whether one can become politically active in a safe way, if one is engaged in illegal activities. <br />
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The issue of the need to comply with laws that are unreasonable and unjust is one that needs ongoing discussion in the community of minor-attracted adults.<br />
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==Create cognitive dissonance==<br />
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Cognitive dissonance is created whenever two firmly held beliefs in an individual's mind contradict each other, or when a belief that a person has difficulty giving up comes into conflict with irrefutable facts. The existence of dinosaur bones for example, creates significant cognitive dissonance with individuals who believe in a literal interpretation of the first chapters of Genesis – one which demands the belief that the world was created some 7000 years ago. Established empirical evidence in this case contradicts one's beliefs. Some adjustment is necessary. Often this takes the form of a very convoluted explanation of things that is not really persuasive to anyone. Perhaps God created the dinosaur bones when he created the earth in order to tempt, mislead and test Christians who would be born 7000 years later. Whatever explanation one comes up with to resolve the difficulty, any form of cognitive dissonance is a serious channel challenge to a person's belief system.<br />
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One learns from the media that all “pedophiles” are devious and insensitive monsters. If one is acquainted with a person who has been identified as a “pedophile” and on the basis of long experience knows that individual to be a sensitive and caring person, this may create a serious degree of cognitive dissonance. Perhaps this is not an “true” pedophile. Perhaps he is basically a good person who was abused in his childhood and has been unable to overcome a tragic flaw in his otherwise good character. If the “pedophile” insists that he was in fact never abused in his childhood, and that he perceives his relationships with minors as positive, this blocks any easy resolution of the cognitive dissonance. A crack then appears in the public consensus.<br />
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A similar form of cognitive dissonance can occur with regard to historical figures that one reads about. The overwhelming evidence is that Shakespeare was attracted to boys. His love sonnets were in any case clearly addressed to a younger male. James Barrie, the author of ''Peter Pan'', Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson), the author of ''Alice in Wonderland'', and Walt Whitman are other well-known minor-attracted adults. The person who most consider one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, [[Benjamin Britten]], was clearly attracted to boys. It's rather difficult to view these individuals as unintelligent or insensitive. The fact that their creative impulse was almost certainly derived in large part from their forbidden erotic impulses further complicates the issue. These men were creative geniuses not in spite of their erotic orientation, but as an outcome of it.<br />
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Perhaps the most poignant illustration of the extreme sensitivity of a minor-attracted adult is found in a letter by EB White, the author of ''The Once And Future King''. He confesses that he was very attracted to a young nephew and it seems clear that he probably would have acted on these feelings if he had not feared the social repercussions both for himself and the boy. The letter is quite revealing of the author's sensibilities:<br />
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:"''I have fallen in love with Zed. On Braye Beach with Killie I waved and waved to the aircraft till it was out of sight – my wild geese all gone and me a lonely old Charlie on the sands who had waddled down to the water's edge but couldn't fly. It would be unthinkable to make Zed unhappy with the weight of this impractical, unsuitable love. It would be against his human dignity. Besides, I love him for being happy and innocent, so it would be destroying what I loved. He could not stand the weight of the world against such feelings – not that they are bad in themselves. It is the public opinion which makes them so. In any case, on every score of his happiness, not my safety, the whole situation is an impossible one. All I can do is behave like a gentleman. It has been my hideous fate to be born with an infinite capacity for love and joy with no hope of using them. I do not believe that some sort of sexual relation with Zed would do him harm – he would probably think and call them t'riffic.''<br />
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:''I do not believe I could hurt him spiritually or mentally. I do not believe that perverts are made so by seduction. I do not think that sex is evil, except when it is cruel or degrading, as in rape, sodomy, etc., or that I am evil or that he could be. But the practical facts of life are an impenetrable barrier – the laws of God, the laws of Man. His age, his parents, his self-esteem, his self-reliance, the process of his development in a social system hostile to the heart, the brightness of his being which has made this what a home should be for three whole weeks of utter holiday, the fact that the old exist for the benefit of the young, not vice versa, that factual impossibilities set up by law and custom, the unthinkableness of turning him into a lonely or sad or eclipsed or furtive person – every possible detail of what is expedient, not what is moral, offers the fox to my bosom, and I must let it gnaw.” (Quoted in O'Carroll, T., Pedophilia: The Radical Case, 1982, p 17)''"<br />
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Another form of creating cognitive dissonance is presenting testimonials by the younger person in a intergenerational relationship. A large number of such testimonials exist, and they suggest that the same range of positive neutral and negative relationships exist in intergenerational relationships that exist in any other kind of relationship. One of the most carefully documented collection of such statements is found in Theo Sandfort's work, ''Boys On Their Contacts with Men: A Study of Sexually Expressed Friendships.'' I give a brief example from Chapter 2, to suggest the nature of these statements. A 14 year old boy who is called “Bart” in the study states that his relationship with “Albert”, who is 46, is “extremely important.”<br />
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:"''We send each other letters, cards, packages and so on. I think that if you go to bed with someone, if you love someone, then you naturally do things together. I can't understand how boys can just see someone and jump into bed with him and then go away. I come for the pleasure of his company, too. If somehow I got in an accident and got castrated, to give a crazy example, I'd still come because it's so nice to be with him. I feel just wonderful with Albert: here is someone who really cares about me; he knows me and I know him; we have no secrets from each other. I really wouldn't want to be without it.''"<br />
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Providing examples, whenever it is appropriate, that contradict the stereotypical images that people have of minor-attracted adults is a powerful political action. The same thing can be said with regard to coming out of the closet with one's friends, whether this happens against one's will or because of a deliberate choice. The revelation that you are a minor-attracted adult is likely to create a cognitive dissonance in your friends and family that will challenge their assumptions about the demonic nature of the dreaded “pedophile”.<br />
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==Challenge Society's Identity Templates -- Across The Board==<br />
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Terms such as “gay”, “bisexual”, “Lesbian”, etc. may serve some limited purpose when we're trying to communicate in a shorthand manner. However, real human beings do fit into any tidy set of templates. Many “lesbians” are attracted to men as well as to women. Many “gay” men are are also in fact attracted by women. Most “bisexuals” are probably to one extent or another “quadra sexuals” -- that is to say that they are probably attracted to boys and girls as well as to men and women. There are not just two or three or four bonding profiles. Each person has his or her own unique pattern of attraction. There are as many bonding profiles as there are people. If we think of terms like “gay” “bisexual”, “heterosexual”, and “lesbian” as anything more than convenient shorthand terms for designating strong inclinations in individuals, we are imposing templates over reality in an artificial manner. Each of us is to one degree or another both a man and a woman, a girl and a boy, an old person and a young person. Most of us experience a sexual/emotional attraction to people in a variety of categories. If we are to be free to be who we actually are, we must cast aside all of society's identity templates and simply allow ourselves to emerge. I attempted to express something with this idea in this poem:<br />
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:'''An Occasion for Mirth'''<br />
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:''I'm becoming earth.''<br />
:''It's an occasion for mirth.''<br />
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:''I have rocks'' <br />
:''In my socks,''<br />
:''And plants'' <br />
:''In my pants.''<br />
:''My insides are turning to loam.''<br />
:''My fingers are starting to roam''<br />
:''Like rhizomes,''<br />
:''Like gnomes''<br />
:''Making new paths in the woods''<br />
:''In twilight neighborhoods''<br />
:''That are now my second home.''<br />
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:''I'm becoming one''<br />
:''With radishes and germs,'' <br />
:''With spiders ants and worms.'' <br />
:''I'm becoming dung.''<br />
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:''Around my house a plethora grows,''<br />
:''Neither garden nor jungle,''<br />
:''An in-between kind of thing,''<br />
:''Something at the edge,''<br />
:''A gardungle,''<br />
:''A beach, a line of sedge,''<br />
:''Where androgynous birds are heard to sing.''<br />
:''Its rather like the fungal''<br />
:''Crop that thrives between my toes.''<br />
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:''I'm becoming one''<br />
:''With compost piles that feed''<br />
:''The multiplicity of seed''<br />
:''I live among.''<br />
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:''It's an occasion for mirth.''<br />
:''I'm becoming birth.''<br />
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This is a poem about what I call my gardungle self. The gardungle self is both wild and domesticated. It exists at the edge of things. It is a place where we are in-between – where we draw on the complete multiplicity of seeds that we have at out disposal as we formulate and affirm our identities – where we are forever sending out rhizomes to new places. Within our natures we can find both a man and a woman, an adult and a child, a domesticated and faithful pet and a wild thing, a garden and a jungle. We strike a poor bargain when we exchange our rich and diversified inheritance for a bowl of pottage – for a uni-dimensional and safe, but sterile, identity template. <br />
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Every template is a prison. To refuse to be confined by society's identity templates is a political act. It is also a political act to be appreciative of the complex of identity elements in our friends and acquaintances.<br />
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==Support Other Marginalized Groups==<br />
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Although it would seem that at the present time minor-attracted adults are the most fanatically attacked and completely ostracized group in society, they are by no means the only marginalized group. Those with psychiatric labels are intensely marginalized. Even when society purports to be sympathetic to their plight, they are not treated as individuals whose communications need to be taken seriously. Illegal aliens are allowed into the country on the sly, because they perform important economic tasks at an extremely low wage. But they are marginalized ruthlessly. Trans-genders are held in a contempt that is still very intense. The homeless are also shunned by the mainstream of society. <br />
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The problem is that groups that wish to advocate either for themselves or for other marginalized groups almost universally distance themselves from minor-attracted adults. We see this most pathetically in the choice of the gay/lesbian/bi/transgender community which has deliberately distanced itself from minor-attracted adults in order to gain acceptance by the mainstream. The reason for this kind of distancing is clear. Groups that have been marginalized don't wish to associate themselves with groups that are even more marginalized than they are, as they feel doing so will hurt their cause. While this rejection of the more marginalized group is understandable, it is nevertheless unfortunate. The dominant elite in society has always kept its power by the technique of divide and conquer. This is obvious in the economic sphere where every immigrant group was set up to be in conflict with the already existing labor force. It is equally in evidence with regard to groups that are marginalized for various non-economic reasons. <br />
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It is unlikely that minor-attracted adults will be able to form alliances with groups that are afraid of being tarnished by their intense stigma. Even so, it is probably in the interest of minor-attracted adults to support other marginalized groups in whatever ways they can, while at the same time they challenge the wisdom of the other groups who will not reciprocate.<br />
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The fact is that other marginalized groups reject a significant portion of their own natural membership when they reject any alliance with minor-attracted adults. This is most obvious in the case of gay men. As was pointed out in an article by Bruce Rind, the historical norm for homosexuality was not relationships between adult men, but intergenerational relationships between men and boys.<ref>[http://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/rind_98_biased.html Review of: Biased Use of Cross-Cultural and Historical Perspectives on Male Homosexuality in Human Sexuality Textbooks. The Journal of Sex Research 35:4 (1998), pp. 397-407]</ref> It is almost certain that many if not most gay men feel some degree of attraction to pubescent and adolescent males.<br />
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With the community of people who are psychiatrically labelled we find a similar situation. Certainly one of the most difficult and stressful psychological realities that anybody has to deal with is the discovery that they are driven by impulses that society considers disgusting, vile, and monstrous. If the very fount of a person's love energy is perceived by a person to be polluted at its source, such a person would be much more likely to develop problems in living that would eventually gain him or her a psychiatric label. Perhaps inroads with some other marginalized groups could be made by an appeal that they not abandon some of their own natural membership.<br />
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==Avoid Unnecessary Risks, And Take Care Of Yourself==<br />
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It is not possible to do politics in a way that is totally risk free. But then, neither is it possible to NOT do politics in a way that is totally risk free. How does one weigh the relative risks of doing nothing against taking action? No general assessment is possible. Every situation is different, and each person must find his or her own balance between risk and safety. It is possible to say, however, that with a life of action one can at least have some hope for a better future, and can live in the present knowledge that one is doing what is possible to make that future a reality. At the same time, we need no macho politics. The point should never be to prove how daring we are. Rather, calculated risks should be taken to achieve goals that might possibly be attainable. There is a time to attack, and a time to retreat – a time to lay low, and a time to speak out. Our actions and reactions in the moment must fit into a larger strategy.<br />
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Minor-attracted adults – especially ones who have been “outed” and have tasted the unholy wrath of our fellow countrymen – have a tendency to fall into what I would call “nightmare mode.” If you have ever experienced this, you will know exactly what I mean. You are living your life and managing fairly well, when suddenly you are reminded by a passing event – something you hear, or read perhaps – of some of the more terrifying or humiliating things that have happened to you. Your waking life takes on the subjective quality of a nightmare. Your appetite for life dries up. Your thoughts become negative. There is nothing to be done, you tell yourself. Power always trumps truth. Hope evaporates and the despair you have only barely managed to hold at bay swallows you up. <br />
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Nightmare mode is a fact. It will happen. But we cannot afford to allow ourselves to be remain passive and helpless in its clutches. Nightmare mode is fed by negative thoughts and isolation. Knowing what feeds nightmare mode provides us the clues we need to fight it. First we must examine exactly what thoughts are feeding it and either counter these thoughts with more positive ones, or make some change in our situation that reduces the immediate risks that have thrown us off balance. Then we need to find someone we can talk with. This cannot be a professional counsellor, of course. They are all mandated reporters. They work for the system whether they want to or not. So we must reach out to a friend who will listen to us and help us evaluate the risks in a realistic manner. Nightmare mode distorts our perception of things. We must always keep this in mind. We may at times need the corrective influence of others.<br />
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As political activists you must take care of yourself. Do not be an easy target. Keep connected with others who can provide support. Avoid nightmare mode. Back off when the immediate threats outweigh any gains you are likely to be able to achieve. If you survive today, tomorrow you will find another opportunity to act. Keep some activities in your life that give you pleasure. Above all, do not give up hope. Our persecutors have numbers on their side. The relentless repetition of misinformation and demonizing images in the mass media has had its effect. Also the persecutors have the legal and bureaucratic machinery of the society under their control. It can indeed look hopeless. But we have the truth on our side, so it is perhaps an equal battle. The sex abuse industry has built its case on prejudice, hysterical fears and misinformation. Like all flat earth theories, this structure of belief will crumble in the face of accurate facts. Misinformation is their Achilles heel. We know this, and that gives us good reason for hope that we will eventually prevail. <br />
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By taking carefully considered political action you will be stepping beyond the your own frustration and needs, and taking on the cause of an entire mistreated group. Taking on this larger cause of trying to help build a fairer, more accepting society – win or lose – can in itself be liberating.<br />
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==References==<br />
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Note: Many links to sites dealing with intergenerational sex become defunct quickly, often due to censorship by Internet Service Providers (ISP) therefore the archive.org "wayback machine" is often the only way to view the defunct sites. Links in this essay have been updated as necessary.<br />
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Source of this essay: https://www.newgon.com/wiki/Essay:Backyard_Politics_For_Minor-attracted_Adults<br />
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[[Category:Essays]]</div>Thomasmannhttps://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=Benjamin_Britten&diff=35126Benjamin Britten2016-05-02T10:56:10Z<p>Thomasmann: </p>
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'''Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten''', (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British classical music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces. His best-known works include the opera '''Peter Grimes''' (1945), the '''War Requiem''' (1962) and the orchestral showpiece '''The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra''' (1945).<br />
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Born in Suffolk, the son of a dentist, Britten showed talent from an early age. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London and privately with the composer Frank Bridge. Britten first came to public attention with the ''a cappella'' choral work ''A Boy was Born'' in 1934. With the premiere of ''Peter Grimes'' in 1945, he leapt to international fame. Over the next 28 years, he wrote 14 more operas, establishing himself as one of the leading 20th-century composers in the genre. In addition to large-scale operas for Sadler's Wells and Covent Garden, he wrote "chamber operas" for small forces, suitable for performance in venues of modest size. Among the best known of these is '''The Turn of the Screw''' (1954). Recurring themes in the operas are the struggle of an outsider against a hostile society, and the corruption of innocence.<br />
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Britten's other works range from orchestral to choral, solo vocal, chamber and instrumental as well as film music. He took a great interest in writing music for children and amateur performers, including the opera '''Noye's Fludde''', a '''Missa Brevis''', and the song collection '''Friday Afternoons'''. He often composed with particular performers in mind. His most frequent and important muse was his personal and professional partner, the Peter Pears. Britten was a celebrated pianist and conductor, performing many of his own works in concert and on record. He also performed and recorded works by others, such as Johann Sebastian Bach's '''Brandenburg concertos''', Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's symphonies, and song cycles by Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann.<br />
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Together with Pears and the librettist and producer Eric Crozier, Britten founded the annual Aldeburgh Festival in 1948, and he was responsible for the creation of Snape Maltings concert hall in 1967. In his last year, he was the first composer to be given a life peer age.<br />
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== Boylove ==<br />
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Throughout his adult life, Britten had a particular rapport with children and enjoyed close friendships with several boys, particularly those in their early teens. The writer John Bridcut sees significance in evidence that Britten mentally regarded himself as perpetually 13 years old. Bridcut views this as manifest both in the Letts diaries Britten bought and used well into his adult life, in which he wrote several statistics relevant to himself when that age,<ref>Bridcut (2006), pp. 1–2</ref> and in his remark to Imogen Holst, "I'm still thirteen".<ref>Bridcut (2006), p. 8</ref> The first such friendship was with Piers Dunkerley, 13 years old in 1934 when Britten was aged 20.<ref>Bridcut (2006), p. 3</ref> Other boys Britten befriended were the young David Hemmings and Michael Crawford, both of whom sang treble roles in his works in the 1950s.<ref>Bridcut (2006), plate 13; and Carpenter, pp. 356–358 and 385</ref> Hemmings later said, "In all of the time that I spent with him he never abused that trust", and Crawford wrote "I cannot say enough about the kindness of that great man... he had a wonderful patience and affinity with young people. He loved music, and loved youngsters caring about music."<br />
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The composer met the thirteen year old son of Hermann Scherchen in 1934. Their relationship lasted six years, and inspired at least one major work, '''Young Apollo'''.<ref>Lie back and think of Britten "Adam Mars-Jones finds that John Bridcut has set himself a daunting task in Britten's Children - to prove whether 'Darling Benjamin' was a mentor or a menace to boys" Sunday June 4, 2006; The Observer [9]</ref><br />
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Britten also slept with 13 year old Bobby Rothman: {{quote| "When Britten stayed with the Rothman family, he shared a room with the thirteen-year-old Bobby:<br />
many an evening we used to spend […] a lot of time just really talking he in the bed next to me […] His fondness for me was something that was beyond my normal social connections, and I was a little overwhelmed that someone should be so fond of me […] I can still remember us talking late at night one time, and finding when it was really time to call it quits and go to sleep […] he said, ‘Bobby, would you mind terribly if, before we fell asleep, I came over and gave you a hug and a kiss?’ It was just one of those touching moments […] And I’ve got to say I really did not know what to do except say, ‘no, no I don’t mind’, and he gently got up and gave me a gentle hug and kiss and said goodnight.<ref>cite book |last1=Mitchell D. |first1=Reed P. |title=Letters from a Life Volume 3 (1946-1951): The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten |date=2011 |publisher=Faber & Faber |asin=B008E5PYZY |pages=784 |accessdate=27 April 2016</ref>}}<br />
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It was long suspected by several of Britten's close associates that there was something exceptional about his attraction to boys: Auden referred to Britten's "attraction to thin-as-a-board juveniles;... to the sexless and innocent",<ref>Carpenter, p. 164</ref> and Pears once wrote to Britten: "remember there are lovely things in the world still– children, boys, sunshine, the sea, Mozart, you and me".<ref>Bridcut (2006), p. 6</ref> In public, the matter was little discussed during Britten's lifetime and much discussed after it.The journalist Martin Kettle wrote in 2012 that although there is no evidence of wrongful conduct, it is important that allegations of [[pedophilia]] be openly discussed, both to avoid covering up criminal behavior and to avoid oversimplifying the complexity of Britten's sexuality and creativity.<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/21/britten-boys-obsession-cannot-ignore</ref> Carpenter's 1992 biography closely examined the evidence, as do later studies of Britten, most particularly John Bridcut's '''Britten's Children''' (2006), which concentrates on Britten’s friendships and relationships with various children and adolescents. Some commentators have continued to question Britten's conduct, sometimes very sharply.<ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/biographyandmemoirreviews/9857511/Benjamin-Britten-by-Paul-Kildea-review.html</ref><ref>http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/richardmorrison/article2045275.ece</ref> Carpenter and Bridcut conclude that he held any sexual impulses under firm control and kept the relationships affectionate, including bed-sharing, kissing and skinny dipping, but strictly platonic.<ref>http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:UKNB:GRDC&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=1129E6B3B2F7A350&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=102CDD40F14C6BDA</ref> <ref>http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:UKNB:DSTC&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=11234EEF7B59EC88&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=102CDD40F14C6BDA</ref><br />
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In the writing "This Day In Pedo History: February 25" it states:{{quote| <br />
*1935 - '''"I write the songs that make the young boys sing"''' - Britten's a cappella choral composition called A Boy Was Born had its debut performance on this date. Being the good pedo that he was, he composed it specifically to be performed, in part, by a boys choir. This was one of his first major works to receive critical acclaim, and helped to fully launch his career. The title might suggest to some a pedoish theme to the piece, but in fact it refers to the birth of Jesus, the story of a completely different type of boy worship.<ref name="tdiphfeb25">{{cite news |author= Author unknown|title=''This Day In Pedo History: February 25'' |date=2003 |accessdate= 3-10-15}} </ref> }}<br />
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== See Also ==<br />
*[https://www.boywiki.org/en/Historical_boylove_relationships#20th_century Historical boylove relationships]<br />
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== References ==<br />
{{reflist}}</div>Thomasmannhttps://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=Benjamin_Britten&diff=35125Benjamin Britten2016-05-02T10:54:08Z<p>Thomasmann: /* Boylove */</p>
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'''Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten''', (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British classical music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces. His best-known works include the opera '''Peter Grimes''' (1945), the '''War Requiem''' (1962) and the orchestral showpiece '''The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra''' (1945).<br />
<br />
Born in Suffolk, the son of a dentist, Britten showed talent from an early age. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London and privately with the composer Frank Bridge. Britten first came to public attention with the ''a cappella'' choral work ''A Boy was Born'' in 1934. With the premiere of ''Peter Grimes'' in 1945, he leapt to international fame. Over the next 28 years, he wrote 14 more operas, establishing himself as one of the leading 20th-century composers in the genre. In addition to large-scale operas for Sadler's Wells and Covent Garden, he wrote "chamber operas" for small forces, suitable for performance in venues of modest size. Among the best known of these is '''The Turn of the Screw''' (1954). Recurring themes in the operas are the struggle of an outsider against a hostile society, and the corruption of innocence.<br />
<br />
Britten's other works range from orchestral to choral, solo vocal, chamber and instrumental as well as film music. He took a great interest in writing music for children and amateur performers, including the opera '''Noye's Fludde''', a '''Missa Brevis''', and the song collection '''Friday Afternoons'''. He often composed with particular performers in mind. His most frequent and important muse was his personal and professional partner, the Peter Pears. Britten was a celebrated pianist and conductor, performing many of his own works in concert and on record. He also performed and recorded works by others, such as Johann Sebastian Bach's '''Brandenburg concertos''', Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's symphonies, and song cycles by Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann.<br />
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Together with Pears and the librettist and producer Eric Crozier, Britten founded the annual Aldeburgh Festival in 1948, and he was responsible for the creation of Snape Maltings concert hall in 1967. In his last year, he was the first composer to be given a life peer age.<br />
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== Boylove ==<br />
<br />
Throughout his adult life, Britten had a particular rapport with children and enjoyed close friendships with several boys, particularly those in their early teens. The writer John Bridcut sees significance in evidence that Britten mentally regarded himself as perpetually 13 years old. Bridcut views this as manifest both in the Letts diaries Britten bought and used well into his adult life, in which he wrote several statistics relevant to himself when that age,<ref>Bridcut (2006), pp. 1–2</ref> and in his remark to Imogen Holst, "I'm still thirteen".<ref>Bridcut (2006), p. 8</ref> The first such friendship was with Piers Dunkerley, 13 years old in 1934 when Britten was aged 20.<ref>Bridcut (2006), p. 3</ref> Other boys Britten befriended were the young David Hemmings and Michael Crawford, both of whom sang treble roles in his works in the 1950s.<ref>Bridcut (2006), plate 13; and Carpenter, pp. 356–358 and 385</ref> Hemmings later said, "In all of the time that I spent with him he never abused that trust", and Crawford wrote "I cannot say enough about the kindness of that great man... he had a wonderful patience and affinity with young people. He loved music, and loved youngsters caring about music."<br />
<br />
The composer met the thirteen year old son of Hermann Scherchen in 1934. Their relationship lasted six years, and inspired at least one major work, '''Young Apollo'''.<ref>Lie back and think of Britten "Adam Mars-Jones finds that John Bridcut has set himself a daunting task in Britten's Children - to prove whether 'Darling Benjamin' was a mentor or a menace to boys" Sunday June 4, 2006; The Observer [9]</ref><br />
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Britten also slept with 13 year old Bobby Rothman: {{quote| "When Britten stayed with the Rothman family, he shared a room with the thirteen-year-old Bobby:<br />
many an evening we used to spend […] a lot of time just really talking he in the bed next to me […] His fondness for me was something that was beyond my normal social connections, and I was a little overwhelmed that someone should be so fond of me […] I can still remember us talking late at night one time, and finding when it was really time to call it quits and go to sleep […] he said, ‘Bobby, would you mind terribly if, before we fell asleep, I came over and gave you a hug and a kiss?’ It was just one of those touching moments […] And I’ve got to say I really did not know what to do except say, ‘no, no I don’t mind’, and he gently got up and gave me a gentle hug and kiss and said goodnight.<ref>cite book |last1=Mitchell D. |first1=Reed P. |title=Letters from a Life Volume 3 (1946-1951): The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten |date=2011 |publisher=Faber & Faber |asin=B008E5PYZY |pages=784 |accessdate=27 April 2016</ref>}}<br />
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It was long suspected by several of Britten's close associates that there was something exceptional about his attraction to boys: Auden referred to Britten's "attraction to thin-as-a-board juveniles;... to the sexless and innocent",<ref>Carpenter, p. 164</ref> and Pears once wrote to Britten: "remember there are lovely things in the world still– children, boys, sunshine, the sea, Mozart, you and me".<ref>Bridcut (2006), p. 6</ref> In public, the matter was little discussed during Britten's lifetime and much discussed after it.The journalist Martin Kettle wrote in 2012 that although there is no evidence of wrongful conduct, it is important that allegations of [[pedophilia]] be openly discussed, both to avoid covering up criminal behavior and to avoid oversimplifying the complexity of Britten's sexuality and creativity.<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/21/britten-boys-obsession-cannot-ignore</ref> Carpenter's 1992 biography closely examined the evidence, as do later studies of Britten, most particularly John Bridcut's '''Britten's Children''' (2006), which concentrates on Britten’s friendships and relationships with various children and adolescents. Some commentators have continued to question Britten's conduct, sometimes very sharply.<ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/biographyandmemoirreviews/9857511/Benjamin-Britten-by-Paul-Kildea-review.html</ref><ref>http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/richardmorrison/article2045275.ece</ref> Carpenter and Bridcut conclude that he held any sexual impulses under firm control and kept the relationships affectionate, including bed-sharing, kissing and skinny dipping, but strictly platonic.<ref>http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:UKNB:GRDC&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=1129E6B3B2F7A350&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=102CDD40F14C6BDA</ref> <ref>http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:UKNB:DSTC&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=11234EEF7B59EC88&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=102CDD40F14C6BDA</ref><br />
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In the writing "This Day In Pedo History: February 25" it states:{{quote| <br />
*1935 - '''"I write the songs that make the young boys sing"''' - Britten's a cappella choral composition called A Boy Was Born had its debut performance on this date. Being the good pedo that he was, he composed it specifically to be performed, in part, by a boys choir. This was one of his first major works to receive critical acclaim, and helped to fully launch his career. The title might suggest to some a pedoish theme to the piece, but in fact it refers to the birth of Jesus, the story of a completely different type of boy worship.<ref name="tdiphfeb25">{{cite news |author= Author unknown|title=''This Day In Pedo History: February 25'' |date=2003 |accessdate= 3-10-15}} </ref> }}<br />
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{{reflist}}</div>Thomasmannhttps://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=January_4&diff=35124January 42016-05-02T10:49:57Z<p>Thomasmann: /* Events */</p>
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*1785 - '''He was a philologist? What kind of pervert is that?''' - Jakob Grimm, who along with his brother Wilhelm produced a famous collection of fairy tales, was born in Hanau in what is now Germany on this date. Among the many famous stories they collected were "Hansel and Gretel," a story that taught children of the dangers of taking candy from strangers and "Little Red Riding Hood," which taught children to be wary of adults pretending to be friendly, distant relatives. One of their least known stories is "Rumpled Foreskin," a tale of a pedo who tries to pretend to be "normal," but fails in all his attempts to get it up while dating women. <ref name="tdiphjan4">{{cite news |author= Author unknown|title=''This Day In Pedo History: January 4'' |date=2003 |accessdate= 3-10-15}} </ref><br />
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*1947 - '''Stories of boys and love''' - Novelist Forrest Reid died on this date. He wrote a great deal about boys in his works. Critic John Cronin, wrote that "Boyhood ... is his special province.... Forrest Reid withdrew from the life around him into a fantasy world of boyish innocence which he explored in novel after novel." John McRae, in the introduction to, The Retreat wrote, "Mr Reid ... has somehow kept his memory of boyhood so alive in himself that he writes almost with the feeling of a contemporary." In 1944 Reid wrote Young Tom, a novel in which two boys fall in love. In one passage he writes of Tom's love, James, "He had simply emerged from his soiled and much-patched clothing like a butterfly form a chrysalis, and the contrast between his fair hair and the golden brown of his body and limbs appeared to the smaller boy [Tom] as attractive as anything could be." Critic Eamonn Hughes wrote, "Apostate finishes ... at the point at which Reid’s identity, most importantly but not exclusively, his sexual identity, is about to be revealed to another person.... He lacks interest in the public, adult world in and by which one’s identity is usually formed ... we are therefore shown his youthful mental world and his adult public existence but are given no access to the personal life which bridges the two." Reid said of his own work that he "could get along swimmingly until I reached ... the point where a boy becomes a man. There something seemed to happen, my inspiration was cut off, my interest flagged, so all became a labour, and not a labour of love." There were also boys in his real life. When he was in his 40s he met Kenneth Hamilton, 13 year old boy, for whom he produced Kenneth’s Magazine of stories and poems. The two maintained a relationship by correspondence after the adult Hamilton joined the merchant navy. After Hamilton died, Reid committed himself increasingly to writing out of the consciousness of boyhood. <ref name="tdiphjan4" /><br />
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*1960 - '''Shiny Happy Pedo?''' - Michael Stipe, lead singer of R.E.M., was born on this date. For many years he refused to discuss his sexuality in interviews, but in more recent years he has more openly discussed his bisexuality. It is also widely rumored that he has contributed financial support to NAMBLA. Anyone who has seen the R.E.M. videos for "Losing My Religion" or "It's The End Of The World As We Know It" could not possibly be shocked by that. <ref name="tdiphjan4" /><br />
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*1986 - '''Something in the way they move''' - Novelist and playwright Christopher Isherwood died on this date in Santa Monica, California. He was born eighty years earlier in Disley, England. In 1914, at age 8, he was sent to St. Edmund's preparatory school, where he made friends with the future poet and fellow pedo, W. H. Auden. During his career he also worked with fellow pedo [[Benjamin Britten]]. When asked about his pedo attraction, he said: "Why do I prefer boys? Because of their shape and their voices and their smell and the way they move." <ref name="tdiphjan4" /><br />
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*1893 - '''Anthem for loved youth''' - Poet and soldier [[Wilfred Owen]] was born on this date. He became famous for his poems "Dulce et Decorum Est" and "Anthem for Doomed Youth." Fellow pedo [[Benjamin Britten]] wrote his The War Requiem based on Owen's poems. Owen was a pedo who had relationships with several young boys, including Arthur Newboult. One of his poems (about a boy) begins: "Now, let me feel the feeling of thy hand - / For it is softer than the breast of girls, / And warmer than the pillows of their cheeks." Yep. He was a perv alright.<ref name="tdiphmarch18">{{cite news |author= Author unknown|title=''This Day In Pedo History: March 18'' |date=2003 |accessdate= 3-10-15}} </ref><br />
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*1974 - '''Men at work - the group''' - In the Netherlands under the auspices of the National Centrum voor Geestelijke Volksgezondheid (NCGV - National Center for Mental Health) a special workgroup was formed in 1973 to deal with the possibilities of assistance for pedos. Already existing welfare programs could not handle this issue, as they were not adequately informed about pedophilia. This NCGV workgroup was made up of prominent authorities in various areas such as psychology, criminology, psychiatry, etc. This new group met for the first time on this date in Utrecht. In 1976 they issued a report that said, in part: "The Workgroup is of the opinion that it is incorrect to regard sexual activities with children under 16 as punishable acts, and the Workgroup strongly recommends the repeal of all the sections of the law pertaining to this matter...."<ref name="tdiphmarch18" /><br />
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*1999 - '''With that kind of supply, what does that say about the demand?''' - It was reported in a press release on this date that Egadz - an organization that works with street youth in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan - there are about 90 children under 15 involved in the child sex trade in Saskatoon and about 230 between the ages of 15 and 18. Now given the population of Saskatoon at the time, that meant that there was one child prostitute in the city for every 200 adult males and one child prostitute younger than 15 for every 800 adult males. Either a small number of people were very very busy making the rounds with these kids, or the appeal of underage sex is much more significant than some might think.<ref name="tdiphmarch18" /><br />
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*2001 - '''The Times, they are a-changing''' - In London The Sunday Times published an article on this date called "The paedophile bogeyman and the paranoid parents." Author Melanie Phillips reported the story of a businessman on a BA flight who happened to be sitting next to two children and so was asked to move because the airline didn't like men sitting next to unaccompanied minors. He hadn't spoken to them, nor had they made any complaint. It was simply BA's policy to keep men away from children because of the danger of pedos. She commented, "for BA to regard all men as potential paedophiles is to take leave of its collective senses. The number of children sexually assaulted by strangers is infinitesimal. The danger of paedophile assault on a flight is about as likely as the plane being struck by a meteorite." She then went on to decry the levels of pedo hysteria in British society. She noted that "increasing numbers of children are being emotionally or physically neglected by parents who are too selfish or inadequate to look after them properly" and commented that it is "easier to invent a bogeyman than look to deficiencies nearer to home."<ref name="tdiphmarch18" /><br />
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March 18, [[1893]] - [[Wilfred Owen]] was a British poet who is famous for works that invoke the horror of war as well as the beauty of boys.<br />
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'''Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten''', (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British classical music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces. His best-known works include the opera '''Peter Grimes''' (1945), the '''War Requiem''' (1962) and the orchestral showpiece '''The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra''' (1945).<br />
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Born in Suffolk, the son of a dentist, Britten showed talent from an early age. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London and privately with the composer Frank Bridge. Britten first came to public attention with the ''a cappella'' choral work ''A Boy was Born'' in 1934. With the premiere of ''Peter Grimes'' in 1945, he leapt to international fame. Over the next 28 years, he wrote 14 more operas, establishing himself as one of the leading 20th-century composers in the genre. In addition to large-scale operas for Sadler's Wells and Covent Garden, he wrote "chamber operas" for small forces, suitable for performance in venues of modest size. Among the best known of these is '''The Turn of the Screw''' (1954). Recurring themes in the operas are the struggle of an outsider against a hostile society, and the corruption of innocence.<br />
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Britten's other works range from orchestral to choral, solo vocal, chamber and instrumental as well as film music. He took a great interest in writing music for children and amateur performers, including the opera '''Noye's Fludde''', a '''Missa Brevis''', and the song collection '''Friday Afternoons'''. He often composed with particular performers in mind. His most frequent and important muse was his personal and professional partner, the Peter Pears. Britten was a celebrated pianist and conductor, performing many of his own works in concert and on record. He also performed and recorded works by others, such as Johann Sebastian Bach's '''Brandenburg concertos''', Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's symphonies, and song cycles by Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann.<br />
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Together with Pears and the librettist and producer Eric Crozier, Britten founded the annual Aldeburgh Festival in 1948, and he was responsible for the creation of Snape Maltings concert hall in 1967. In his last year, he was the first composer to be given a life peer age.<br />
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Throughout his adult life, Britten had a particular rapport with children and enjoyed close friendships with several boys, particularly those in their early teens. The writer John Bridcut sees significance in evidence that Britten mentally regarded himself as perpetually 13 years old. Bridcut views this as manifest both in the Letts diaries Britten bought and used well into his adult life, in which he wrote several statistics relevant to himself when that age,<ref>Bridcut (2006), pp. 1–2</ref> and in his remark to Imogen Holst, "I'm still thirteen".<ref>Bridcut (2006), p. 8</ref> The first such friendship was with Piers Dunkerley, 13 years old in 1934 when Britten was aged 20.<ref>Bridcut (2006), p. 3</ref> Other boys Britten befriended were the young David Hemmings and Michael Crawford, both of whom sang treble roles in his works in the 1950s.<ref>Bridcut (2006), plate 13; and Carpenter, pp. 356–358 and 385</ref> Hemmings later said, "In all of the time that I spent with him he never abused that trust", and Crawford wrote "I cannot say enough about the kindness of that great man... he had a wonderful patience and affinity with young people. He loved music, and loved youngsters caring about music."<br />
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Britten also slept with 13 year old Bobby Rothman: {{quote| "When Britten stayed with the Rothman family, he shared a room with the thirteen-year-old Bobby:<br />
many an evening we used to spend […] a lot of time just really talking he in the bed next to me […] His fondness for me was something that was beyond my normal social connections, and I was a little overwhelmed that someone should be so fond of me […] I can still remember us talking late at night one time, and finding when it was really time to call it quits and go to sleep […] he said, ‘Bobby, would you mind terribly if, before we fell asleep, I came over and gave you a hug and a kiss?’ It was just one of those touching moments […] And I’ve got to say I really did not know what to do except say, ‘no, no I don’t mind’, and he gently got up and gave me a gentle hug and kiss and said goodnight.<ref>cite book |last1=Mitchell D. |first1=Reed P. |title=Letters from a Life Volume 3 (1946-1951): The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten |date=2011 |publisher=Faber & Faber |asin=B008E5PYZY |pages=784 |accessdate=27 April 2016</ref>}}<br />
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It was long suspected by several of Britten's close associates that there was something exceptional about his attraction to boys: Auden referred to Britten's "attraction to thin-as-a-board juveniles;... to the sexless and innocent",<ref>Carpenter, p. 164</ref> and Pears once wrote to Britten: "remember there are lovely things in the world still– children, boys, sunshine, the sea, Mozart, you and me".<ref>Bridcut (2006), p. 6</ref> In public, the matter was little discussed during Britten's lifetime and much discussed after it.The journalist Martin Kettle wrote in 2012 that although there is no evidence of wrongful conduct, it is important that allegations of [[pedophilia]] be openly discussed, both to avoid covering up criminal behavior and to avoid oversimplifying the complexity of Britten's sexuality and creativity.<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/21/britten-boys-obsession-cannot-ignore</ref> Carpenter's 1992 biography closely examined the evidence, as do later studies of Britten, most particularly John Bridcut's '''Britten's Children''' (2006), which concentrates on Britten’s friendships and relationships with various children and adolescents. Some commentators have continued to question Britten's conduct, sometimes very sharply.<ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/biographyandmemoirreviews/9857511/Benjamin-Britten-by-Paul-Kildea-review.html</ref><ref>http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/richardmorrison/article2045275.ece</ref> Carpenter and Bridcut conclude that he held any sexual impulses under firm control and kept the relationships affectionate, including bed-sharing, kissing and skinny dipping, but strictly platonic.<ref>http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:UKNB:GRDC&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=1129E6B3B2F7A350&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=102CDD40F14C6BDA</ref> <ref>http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:UKNB:DSTC&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=11234EEF7B59EC88&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=102CDD40F14C6BDA</ref><br />
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*1935 - '''"I write the songs that make the young boys sing"''' - Britten's a cappella choral composition called A Boy Was Born had its debut performance on this date. Being the good pedo that he was, he composed it specifically to be performed, in part, by a boys choir. This was one of his first major works to receive critical acclaim, and helped to fully launch his career. The title might suggest to some a pedoish theme to the piece, but in fact it refers to the birth of Jesus, the story of a completely different type of boy worship.<ref name="tdiphfeb25">{{cite news |author= Author unknown|title=''This Day In Pedo History: February 25'' |date=2003 |accessdate= 3-10-15}} </ref> }}<br />
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*1935 - '''"I write the songs that make the young boys sing"''' - [[Benjamin Britten]]'s a cappella choral composition called A Boy Was Born had its debut performance on this date. Being the good pedo that he was, he composed it specifically to be performed, in part, by a boys choir. This was one of his first major works to receive critical acclaim, and helped to fully launch his career. The title might suggest to some a pedoish theme to the piece, but in fact it refers to the birth of Jesus, the story of a completely different type of boy worship.<ref name="tdiphfeb25">{{cite news |author= Author unknown|title=''This Day In Pedo History: February 25'' |date=2003 |accessdate= 3-10-15}} </ref> <br />
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*1988 - '''"Let's try another take, and work your hips more this time"''' - Clownhouse had all the basic elements of a horror film covered. Set around [[Halloween]], three kids are terrorized by mental hospital escapees in clown costumes. But when the film was released on this date there was another element to the horror left to be told. Nathan Winters was 12 years old when he starred in the film. he also engaged in oral sex with the film's director, Victor Salva. Salva was arrested, pleaded guilty to one count of lewd and lascivious conduct, one count of oral copulation with a person under 14 and three counts of procuring a child for pornography for videotaping the events, and was sentenced to 3 years in prison. He served 15 months behind bars before being paroled. In 1995 Salva directed Powder for Disney. The release of that film brought then 20 year old Nathan Winters out to join protests of it.<ref name="tdiphfeb25" /><br />
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*1999 - '''Persecution, vindication, devastation anyway.''' - Xtra! published a report on this date about a man named Matthew McGowan. When he was 23, McGowan was arrested for obscenity based on a homemade video of him having sex with two 14 year old boys - one of whom was his then live-in boyfriend. As a Canadian, having sex with the boys was legal. But under Canadian law, filming it constituted making child porn and was not legal. The charges were tossed out at a preliminary hearing twenty-two months later on the grounds that the acts were not "obscene" - no violence, degradation, or coercion were involved. "It was obvious that us three young men were having a good time," McGowan said. But the experience is one he reports as having devastated his life. The victory did not save him from the hatred of others. "My life was just turned upside down," McGowan said, pointing out that his photo was published across Toronto in major daily newspapers. "I had people come up to me - total strangers - and call me a fucking didler. Once you're charged, the press has free reign and they'll twist it to suit their purposes. Hey - sex sells." He said that the most "mortifying" experience for him was having the video screened in an open court room during his bail hearing. Apparently public viewing of "obscene" material is ok even if possessing it is not.<ref name="tdiphfeb25" /><br />
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*2001 - '''Sounds like he could be batting for our team, however...''' - Ann Landers gets some letters from nuts, but this one was a doosie. On this date Landers' column featured a letter from a woman who was worried that they gym teacher at her son's elementary school might be a pedo. Her reasons? (1) He was unmarried, despite being "a very attractive and personable single man in his late 30s." The mother wrote that she had never seen the teacher with a woman. (2) He worked summers as a counselor at a boys' overnight camp. (3) Many parents - especially those of boys - had hired him to babysit when they went out of town. The woman asked Ann, "Aren't these the hallmarks of a pedophile?" Ann's reply was to not sweat it if her son liked being around the man and to be careful about spreading rumors and labeling people in damaging ways. Well done, Ann!<ref name="tdiphfeb25" /><br />
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