home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!ames!sgi!fido!pauli
- From: pauli@sgi.com (Paul Isaacs)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Ageism
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 18:22:59 GMT
- Organization: Silicon Graphics
- Lines: 29
- Message-ID: <1haaq3INNn3f@fido.asd.sgi.com>
- References: <72260@cup.portal.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: uniblab.asd.sgi.com
-
- In article <72260@cup.portal.com> elc@cup.portal.com (Edward L Cole) writes:
- >
- > [ highlights from the article follow...]
-
- >> The fascism of gay male aesthetic. <
- >
- >Many gay men have bought into the notion that youth is the sexual pinacle.
- >Young men have been idolized for at least decades in american gay male culture.
- >
- >The abundance of erotica and pornography that involves young men
- >is staggering really.
- >
- >What is all about? Perhaps its the lingering on of the days
- >when most gay men where doomed to an old age of loneliness;
- >an attempt to stave off age with youthfull bodies. Perhaps
- >its the natural expression of human yearning for prodigy. Or
- >the byproduct of male libido that has nothing to do with gender
- >but seeks to dominate and the young are easy to subdue.
-
-
- I don't believe that obsession with youth is a recent phenomenon.
- If you want to talk about how long things have been this way, then I think
- that the millenium would be a better unit of measurement than the decade.
-
- And it's not just a gay thing either, although it's possibly more a male
- thing than a female thing.
-
-
- pauli.
-