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Boys are not so much "too" hot as they are divinely hot. They are in no need of our sperm, not do we really need to give it to them. What they want is our attention, and their beauty attracts it; what we get is their attention, and far more. All beauty points to the divine, but the sexual beauty of women is undergirded by a procreative urge far older than man and shared by all the animals, while the sexual beauty (aka hotness) of boys points more immediately beyond the reproduction of animal flesh toward something more abstract, something more philosophical and oriented to the soul, toward what must be learned, toward culture, toward virtue. In other words, toward distinctly human qualities, what make humans uniquely human: the divine spark, logos, reason, imago dei. That reason that God gives us makes possible the recognition of beauty as a form of truth and a kind of goodness, above and beyond its "merely" reproductive capacity to attract. There is no conflict between the myths of evolutionary function and creation by God (contra Edmund). There are elemental facts about human experience, human nature, and reason itself that simply cannot be reduced to evolutionary function. The divine, sheerly gratuitous beauty of boys is, for me at least, foremost among those facts. |