This reduction of sex to problems of liberation and oppression turns out to be a part of a post-modern paradigm that sees every relation in terms of power, every solution as equalization, and every resistance as fear. Thosrtadt and NAMBLA's mistake was to think this reductionist paradigm was remotely rich enough to address the immense complexities of boy love, and human relations generally, or even to establish a ground for analysis. Even those here at BC who remain loyal to the old "sexual liberation of youth" project tend to make contributions that affirm this inadequacy, which is as obsolete and dysfunctional as pederasty itself seems to have become. |