Re: Yes, spot on

my powers of thought and language noticeably decline month by month as I navigate through an eighth decade. You seem pretty cogent to me! I too am slower with age and much more forgetful, but I don't think that means keeping going isn't worthwhile. I don't think lack of academic qualification should be a deterrent. It means your book wouldn't be published by an academic press or thus automatically read by a number of academics. But most books of all sorts are forgotten fairly soon anyway and yours would be something greater - one of those rare books that could resonate for centuries among the select lucky few who came across it because it would be truly original, explaining something important that no one else has, at least at all adequately. Would you not agree that it's not really possible to explain the predicament of pederasty today without understanding how and why the profound 17th century transformation in thinking about sexuality came about? The subject is so important that I have of course thought often about trying to write an article myself that I could post on greek-love.com However, I don't feel that I fully understand it and I'm always put off by remembering our exchanges on the subject, where it was clear you've come to grips with it in a way I haven't, your understanding of the causes being both broader and deeper. Couldn't you consider, in no great rush, at least bringing together in one article, your various writings on the subject here over the last several years. Then, afterwards, and perhaps with useful feedback, you could consider expanding your essay into the definitive work on the subject. I intend soon to post something here on a related subject, masturbation, that will argue more broadly the pointlessness of arguing against social changes whose causes have not been properly understood. www.amazon.com/dp/1481222112