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It suddenly became safe to talk about these things. It became lucrative to talk about such things. You could make money by it, and so could therapists, newspapers, and lawyers. You could explain away your own failings through the mechanisms of unprovable, unverifiable hypotheses. You could join in on the booming culture of victimology, riding on the backs of the civil rights movement and feminism. Talk about "convenient." It suddenly become acceptable to engage in scapegoating untethered to reality. What became unsafe, dramatically unsafe, was to take any other position, to defend or dismiss any benign encounter as insignificant, even to defend the older party against post-hoc accusations. The hysteria made the entire discourse around these matters both more dangerous and more lucrative by orders of magnitude. Simply to suggest that some sexual encounter might not have been so bad puts you immediately under suspicion. "What, you think he could consent? Are you some sort of perv yourself?" What became unsafe, and ultmately impossible, was a once normal ease with which older and younger males could bind affectionately with each other, privately yet openly, forming relations that have no substitute, and whose eros, even in societies such as the West's that condemned sexual activity, could at least express itself to a greater or lesser degree in the ways that really matter most to man and boy. The hysteria ushered in not an era of "safety," but of unprecedented danger to all concerned, should anyone pry into any private affair of man or boy. The idea that some dark underbelly of exploitation was being revealed to the light of justice by some sense of "safety" runs up against all the historical evidence this very board has done so much to reveal. It is the discourse of "safety" that's the real dark underbelly. The feminize matronly protectorate. Almost no one, even at Boychat, interprets that teen standing up to bullies as meaning there is erotic interest in the ginger. The votes aren't in, but I'll betchya that every BL here recognizes that such behavior would be driven by a twinge of eros, that every BL here recognizes a bit of his better self in that youth. Heck – were you never attracted to a boy younger than you in school? Are you a BL or not? Is it not perfectly obvious how plausible this is? Why are you denying the obvious? |