Re: This made me laugh

Part 2 of the article from Life, has a little about pedophilia, written in 1964, (and in 2000 too.)

(Parts from 1964 is in bold text.)

"Paedophilia rears its ugly head early on in the article, reflecting, I guess, the way people make top-of-mind associations between homosexuality and paedophilia.

There are, of course, some homosexuals who specialize in seducing young boys. But they are decidedly a minority group: they are the least homosexual of all homosexuals, less active than the others and far more likely to be married [They] tend to be lone wolves who stay away from the gay society and indeed would be shunned by it. The boys they seduce are seldom lured into the homosexual life, at least not for long.

I am sure many people still do not know this, today. Worse yet, they still won't accept this observation even if they were told so.

Did you find the construction "they are the least homosexual of all homosexuals" strange? I did, and didn't immediately understand what it was saying. Then I realised that the writer saw homosexuality as sexual acts, not as orientation. He was saying that boy-paedophiles rarely engaged in adult homosex. It's such an outmoded idea to see homosexuality as merely sexual activity!"

(There is nothing about paedophilia in the rest of the second part of this article. Interesting to read. Even though, year 2000 wasn's that much better for us than 1964, maybe it was the other way around, for us paedophiles? Better then, worse now?)

2nd part of the article: http://www.yawningbread.org/arch_2000/yax-193.htm