"What is a happy ending? Here perhaps is a clue to the difference between pederasty and homosexuality: a happy pederast ending has the boy grow up to be normal, happy, married with children, and continuing to be a close friend of his former lover." Parker Rossman, "Literature on Pederasty" in The Journal of Sex Research, Vol. 9, No. 4 (Nov., 1973), p. 308. It is ironic that pederastic relationships should come under attack for their impermanence in an era when most lifelong relationships have become rarer than ever for everyone. When a married man gets divorced, he becomes a personal failure. When a boy grows out of a pederastic relationship, he graduates and his lover adds him to his list of successes in life. www.amazon.com/dp/1481222112 |