Pederasty

From “Those Whom The Gods Love Grow Young: Some Notes on Wilde, Greece & Youth”:

But when you subtract all of our warped assumption, you’re left with just youth. Youth is just a quality any human can have, potentially at any age. Youth is a freshness and a beauty and form of strength that can be shared with another human in exchange for wisdom and strength of other varieties. We forget that a fifteen year old is as much a complete human as a fifty year old because society has been built in order to let the old dominate, exploit and indoctrinate the young according to the tenets of the child / adult dichotomy. But as a complete human, they deserve the same rights, respect and liberty to which anything born with humanity is heir.

---

The content on this page is in the public domain.