|
I read the book many years ago and all I remembered was that I wasn't at all convinced by Percy's theory. I was very unimpressed with population control as a motivator for institutionalised pederasty. This time around, I'm sold on the idea! Two peoples who, at a similar time, had the opposite population motivation: The Jews and the Romans. Both wanted to bang out the babies as quickly as possible, both became hostile to pederasty. The Romans didn't condemn men's natural attraction to boys the way Judaism did, but they did outlaw it for freeborn boys. Quite hostile for a Mediterranean culture. Sure, masturbating alone is okay, as is talking to oneself -- but only in moderation; it should never become a habit. what happened to parenthood such that everyone just forgot that children are sexual beings? Post WWII suburban nuclear family. Children's sexuality became untenable. You can see it in every white-picket-fence 50's family snap. After the 60s flamed out, the problem remained. Satanic panic, eating disorders, tranny genital mutilation, Epstein hysteria -- it's all coming from that pressure-cooker of sexual neuroticism we don't even know how to acknowledge, let alone deal with. If we don't find a way to get naked again, we'll render ourselves sterile. |