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One of the many interesting facts Michael Rocke found in his study of Renaissance Florence was that 12% of pederastic sex confessions recorded fellatio having taken place—or, as they rather oddly liked to say, one partner sodomized the other with his mouth. Rocke describes as "somewhat surprising" the fact that it's nearly always the man fellating the boy. He sees this as a potential reversal of the dominant/submissive pattern found in pedication, the most common sexual behaviour. But it's not a reversal and is in fact a useful means of debunking the hogwash that so often surrounds the phobic nightmare of man-pedicates-boy. There is a lot of overlap between the man pedicating and fellating his boy. In both cases the man is in the driver's seat and is trying to maximise his boy's pleasure. Fellatio, it could be argued, is a more overt expression of the man's dominance. In fellatio, he retains full control, artfully working the boy to the desired orgasm; the whole thing can be brought off with military precision. Whereas with pedication—a spiralling double-header where the centre may not hold—it's often a case of trying to work out what the fuck happened toward the end...Did you...? Was I...? Surely we didn't...? Parker Rossman in Sexual Experience Between Men and Boys quotes research that "suggests that at least 30 percent of pubescent males are highly sensitive anally, although this capacity for pleasure begins to fade in mid-adolescence". Which starts leading us back to a possible evolutionary input... The ancient Greeks couldn't bring themselves to admit boys can get terribly turned on by being fucked. Too threatening to a boy's emerging masculinity. So they invented the rather silly cover story of intercrural sex. You look at some of those intercrural vase paintings—crabbed man looks like he's trying to pass a kidney stone—and you can sense both the artist and the customer having a good laugh over it. Bet they never thought succeeding generations of scholars would jump so avidly on the story. Oh, yes, very Greek, very ideal, that's how it worked for sure! But now that we've reached the fag-end phase of culture, and masculinity is no longer glorified or seen as essential—why has pedication become even more unthinkable? The modern mind finds scenes of infant cannibalism far more palatable than boy-pedication. Despite ancient anxiety, pedication is, within a quality Greek love culture, both respectful and encouraging of masculinity. But what does a modern mind picture when the prospect of boy-pedication is raised? Fags, obviously. Fags carrying out their oft-repeated threat to destroy the hated bourgeois home. Which is a far more perverse sex act than performing sodomy by mouth. |