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... this is only intended for the few who share my interest for its own sake in how pederasty worked in the past – it has no lessons that I know of for those engaged in the ongoing debate at to what kind of pederasty might flourish in the future. But it has many lessons, though you be not directly interested in them! Every history lesson is an anthropological project, and extends in all directions through time. When, for example, you take the imaginative step of suggesting, "I think I know of a partial solution for you," you are bringing all of us into communication with a coordination of reason, ethics, and affection which only makes sense as an idea that is valid, not only now, but back then, and therewith, in some sense, ultimately. Pederasty is not entirely plastic, but shifts in shape enough that much of its structure must always elude us, and even perhaps necessarily must remain under the surface, unconscious -- yet when it is buried in lies, our imaginations suffer for it. Every exercise in exposing ourselves to every dimension of it matters for the future, not only for its future, but for mankind's. |