On Pedophillia and Homosexuality

brunians at brunians.org · 22 Jul 2010, 03:58 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: brunians at brunians.org (brunians at brunians.org)
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:58:36 -0400
Subject: (urth) On Pedophillia and Homosexuality
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He's got a buttboy, Wilson.

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> On 7/21/2010 10:01 PM, Jerry Friedman wrote:
>> *From:* Nicholas <nickjost at yahoo.com>
>> **
>>>" don't see where you get this from. Granted Baldanders is not shown as
>> having any sexual interest in >women,
>>
>> Specifically, not in the endlessly desirable Jolenta.
>
> Baldanders likely assisted Dr Talos with her makeover, and so would have
> a lot of associations with her that others would not. Also, Baldanders
> is really old and despite his prolonged adolescent growth, he doesn't
> seem to have the teenage horniness one might expect, so he could be
> "done" or just have a low sex drive.
>
>>>  and by default one might assume that such a character might (or might
>> not) be gay. But the
>>>modified child in his bed hardly qualifies as a man."
>>>
>>>You make two bad assumptions that the classic world didn't.
>>
>> You did say specifically that Baldanders liked the attentions of "men",
>> not "men and boys". And where should I have noticed that's what he
>> liked? Also, you said that Severian noticed and grokked that men are
>> attracted to other males. Where did I miss that? I remember he mentions
>> some men who are impotent save with men like themselves.
>
> At first I read this as "impatient", and perhaps he is indeed the sort
> of sexist pig who doesn't have time for women, despite being otherwise
> enlightened about the human condition. A similar attitude was prevalent
> at King's College among the mostly male DNA reasearchers at the expense
> of Rosalind Franklin.
>
>
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