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- From: mattm@apple.com (Matthew Melmon)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Ageism
- Message-ID: <mattm-231292110339@mcmelmon.apple.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 19:21:50 GMT
- References: <1992Dec23.165203.58966@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec23.165203.58966@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>,
- dh0a@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (DONALD L. HARDY) wrote:
-
- > Judging from such things as Greco-Roman statuary, Michelangelo's David,
- > Shakespeare, and lots of other stuff, this idolization of the young male has
- > been going on in Western Art LONG time, and not just in gay culture.
-
- There is, however, a somewhat distressing tendency for some gay
- 'literature' to go to great lengths to stress that the models
- all *really* *are* over 18; but, none of the *look* like they're
- over 18. The teenager as sex-object is easy enough to understand,
- and I don't think it constitutes 'pedophelia' (which I see
- as being sex with *children* - as in, under 12); but, there is
- something a little disturbing, to me, in the need this 'literature'
- seems to have for 'pretending' that it is showing underage sex.
-
- *X*
-