O'Carroll, T. Paedophilia; the radical case. Contemporary Social Issues Series, No. 12. Peter Owen. London, 1980. (The definitive positive book. Also has extensive bibliography, and history of the persectution of the Paedophile Information Exchange in Britain during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Large university and reference libraries may hold copies - or you can get copies - 22.00 DM - from Berlin's largest gay bookshop,'Prinz Eisenherz - see 'European groups' for the address)
Bernard, F. Paedophilia - a factual report. Netherlands, Enclave, 1985. ISBN 90 71179 028. Enclave, Postbus 6591, NL 3002, AN Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Best, Joel. Threatened Childen. University of Chicago Press, 1993. (Good account of the history and hysteria surrounding the current panics about childen in the US)
Brongersma, E. (ed.) Loving Boys - a multidisciplinary study of sexual relations between adults and minor males. GÄ.P. Amsterdam, 1987/8. Vol. 1: ISBN 1 55741 001 8. Vol. 2: ISBN 1 55741 001 1. (Available from Global Academic Publishers. Postbus 2 2167, NL.1100, KD Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Cook, M. and Howells, K. Adult Sexual Interest In Children. London. Academic Press, 1981. (An interesting attempt to provide an overview of both sociological and 'medical' facts and figures relating to the sexual, rather than the emotional, aspects o f paedophilia. Most of the articles are from a non-judgmental perspective, and the existence of sexual feelings in many children is positively acknowledged)
Constantine, L. and Martinson, F. Children And Sex - new findings, new perspectives. Little Brown and Co. Boston, 1981. ISBN 0 316 15335 1. (Massive interdisciplinary collection of academic articles. Starts from the premise that most children are sexual beings, and although neglecting the emotional aspects of adult-child relationships, this is a useful collection of academic literature-surveys and original research)
Eberle, P. and Eberle, S. Abuse Of Innocence. Ophelia Editions. (A critical look at recent cases in the U.SÄ., and at the wider suppression of children's sexuality. Available for $29.50 from Ophelia Editions. (See 'Publishers' for address)
Gardner, R. Sex Abuse Hysteria - the Salem witch-trials revisited. London, 1991. ISBN 0 933812 22 1.
Goldman, R. "Show Me Yours !" - Children talking about sex. London. Penguin, 1988. (USA edition subtitled 'Understanding children's sexuality')
Hertoft, Preben/Triobands Collective. Crimes Without Victims - a book about paedophilia. Global Academic Publishers, Amsterdam, 1993. (Translation of a 1986 book of positive essays and interviews by Danish group. Available from the Intermale address - see 'European Groups')
The Howard League For Penal Reform. Unlawful Sex; report of the Howard League Working Party. London, 1985. (Chapter Four is a useful, if somewhat dated, overview of legal and penal aspects of child-adult loving in Britain. A balanced and informed sur vey of the research literature concludes that children in a consenting relationship usually have a positive and nurturing experience of great value to them. Categorically concludes that psychological damage arises almost solely from the involvement of p olice, social workers and doctors. Statistics and tables of mid-1980s arrest/conviction/sentence data)
Lees, S. (ed) Sugar and Spice - sexuality and adolescent girls. Penguin, 1993. (Edited quotations from interviews and discussions back up this study of the social and sexual relations between adolescent boys and girls)
McBride, W. and Fleischhaver, H. "Show Me!" - a picture book of sex for children. St. Martin's Press. New York, 1975.
Middleton, Warren (Ed.) The Betrayal of Youth - radical perspectives on childhood sexuality, intergenerational sex, and the social oppression of children and young people. London. CL Publications, 1986. (No traceable copies in any UK libraries - but a vailable for Hf36.50 plus postage from the Intermale address - see 'European Groups')
Nelson, B. Making An Issue Of Child-Abuse - political agenda-setting for social problems. Chicago University Press. Chicago, 1984. (More useful than 'positive', this traces the development in the USA of the multi-million dollar child-abuse 'diagnosis /therapy' industry, and its use as a political platform; the effect of which is to distract resources from the relatively few genuine cases of coercive and violent child abuse, brew up an ongoing moral-panic which denies the reality that most children ha ve sexual feelings and desires, and cause trauma and heartbreak to thousands of children and adults in loving consenting relationships)
North American Man/Boy Love Association. Boys speak out on man/boy love. NAMBLA, 1986. (3rd edition) (See 'Magazines' for NAMBLA address)
Parton, N. The Politics of Child Abuse. London. MacMillan, 1985. (Still in print and in bookshops in 1993. Similar critique to that of Nelson (1984, see above) but in a British context, and with useful historical contextualisation. In parts, highly critical of the 'medicalisation' of the phenomenon, and the way in which prejudices about race, class, gender and age exist covertly within much of what passes for 'professional practice' in the field)
Parents Special Interest Group. Girlhood sexual experiences - from the Parent SIG BBS. Passion Press, 1993. (52pp. Accounts of early sexual experiences gathered from submissions via a computer 'bulletin board' on the InterNet. Available from the US Ophelia Editions address)
Pascal, Mark. (Ed.) Varieties of Man-Boy Love - Modern Western Contexts. Wallace Hamilton Pres. New York, 1992. (Positive anthology pubished by NAMBLA, originally as Nambla Journal #8 - available in Europe from the Intermale address - see 'European G roups')
Pieterse, M. Paedophiles discuss paedophilia. GÄ.P. Amsterdam, 1988. ISBN 1 55741 008 9. (English text. Available from Global Academic Publishers. Postbus 22167, NL 1100, KD Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Powell, G. and Chalkley, N. The Effect Of Paedophiliac Attention On A Child. IN: B. Taylor (ed.) Perspectives On Paedophilia. London. Batsford, 1981. (A scholarly review of the research literature by the Institute Of Psychiatry. Concludes that in incidents where no force or violence is used, there is very little evidence that the child will be psychologically disturbed or damaged by either the emotional or sexual aspects of the relationship)
Randall, J. L. Childhood and Sexuality - a radical Christian approach. Pittsburgh. Dorrance, 1992. ISBN 0 8059 3284 4. (Forget the 'radical christian' tag, this is an excellent rebuttal of all the slanders and misinformation currently directed at pa edophiles, though the UK author does not delve too deeply into the reasons and factors behind the current post mid-80s moral panics. Highly recommended. Available from the US Ophelia Editions address)
Richardson, J., Best, J., Bromley, D. The Satanism Scare. Publisher not known. (Available from the US Ophelia Editions address. Collection of sociological and criminological articles exposing the ludicrous falsity of the 'satanism' panic.)
Rossman, P. Sexual Experience Between Men and Boys - exploring the pederast underground. Association Press. New York, 1976. (Well-balanced study, dated but with an international perspective - reprinted in the UK in 1985. Available from the 'Prinz Ei senarz' address.)
Sandfort, T. The Sexual Aspects Of Pedophiliac Relationships - experiences of boys. Utrecht Sociological Institute, The Netherlands, 1981.
Sandford, T. Boys On Their Contacts With Men - A study of sexually expressed relationships. New York. GÄ.P., 1987.
Sandford, T; Brongersma, E; and van Naerssen, A. (Eds.) Male intergenerational intimacy. 1992. (See 'Magazines' under Journal of Homosexuality for more information - available in Europe from the Intermale address)
Tsang, D. (ed) The Age Taboo - gay male sexuality, power and consent. London. Gay Men's Press, 1981. (In USA by Alyson, Boston, 1981) (Many reprinted articles from various hard-to-find radical/alternative/gay publications of the 1970s.) (** On the subject of 'consent', there is an excellent and useful overview of the subject of children and 'consent' in Priscilla Anderson's 'Children's Consent to Surgery' [Oxford University Press, 1994] which, according to the newspaper reviews, conclud es that "...beyond any doubt, many children, even young ones, can digest information and make decisions about themselves and their bodies as well as most adults." If her findings become accepted, then we have a ready-made and authoritative argument agai nst those who hold that children 'don't know what they're getting into', and thus cannot legally consent to loving intimate relationships with older people.
The Obscene Publications Squad vs. Art. [anon; LÄ.S.] (Booklet giving full account of the raids by Scotland Yard's TO13 branch on well-known painter and photographer Graham Ovenden. See Articles: Bellos, A. for more information. Available from the US Ophelia Editions address)
Wells, Dr. H. The Sensous Child. New York. Stein and Day, 1978. (Still in print in the USA from Scarborough Press; ISBN 08128 2472 5)
Underwager, R., and Wakefield, H. (Eds.) The Real World Of Child Interrogations. (From the editors of the journal 'Issues in Child Abuse Accusations', which questions many of the edicts of the child abuse industry. Late 1980s/early 1990s ? No further information.)
Wexler, R. Wounded Innocents - the real victims of the war against child abuse. USA. Promethious Books, 1990. ISBN 0 87975 602 0. (No UK edition. Well-argued and researched book about the hysteria over alleged child-abuse in the USA, and the indust ry that has sprung up to exploit the panic. Wexler argues that most cases are unfounded, and that it is the investigative methods of the 'child-police' which most often traumatize and stigmatize children)
Wilson, G. and Cox, D. The Child-Lovers - a study of paedophilia
in society. London, Peter Owen, 1983. ISBN 0 7206 0603 9 (Study of
answers from a questionairre answered by 77 PIE members in Britain in
the late 1970s. Also includes case-studies. Ve ry interesting, but
although non-condemnatory, it is not wholly positive. Available from
the Prinz Eisenharz address)
Children's Rights
Farson, R. Birthrights. New York. MacMillan, 1977.
Holt, T. Escape from Childhood - the needs and rights of
children. London, Penguin, 1974. (An excellent multi-faceted
argument for children's rights. Highly readable)
Books - writers and literature.
Birkin, Andrew. J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys. London. Constable, 1979. (Account of the loves of the creator of 'Peter Pan'. Still in print in 1993)
Cohen, Morton (Ed.) Lewis Carroll - interviews and recollections. University of Iowa Press, 1991. (One third of the book is devoted to the recollections of Carroll's child-friends)
Cooley, John. Mark Twain's Aquarium - The Samuel Clemens Angel Fish Correspondence, 1905-1910. University Of Georgia, 1991. (Record of Twain's club for little girls)
Crowley, J.W. (Ed.) Austen, Roger. Genteel Pagan - the double life of Charles Warren Stoddard. University of Massachusetts Press, Amhurst, 1991. (About the life of the American travel writer, also a boy-lover)
Kilvert, F. (Plomer, W. ed.) Kilvert's Diary, 1870-1879. London. Penguin, 1977 (This one-volume selection, first published in the UK By Johnathan Cape in 1944, is still in print. Originally published in three volumes. A journal kept by a rural Eng lish Victorian vicar, a great lover of young girls, whose journal is claimed to be among the finest in the English language)
Kincaid, J. R. Child-loving; the erotic child and Victorian culture. London. Routledge, 1993. (Caused much condemnatory foaming-at-the-mouth in the pages of the Sunday Times. Excellent positive account of the place of the 'child' in culture, especial ly literature, but ranges far beyond the Victorian era. By a senior lecturer at one of America's top universities)
(Author unknown) The Green Avenue - the life and writings of Forrest Ried. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
Gide, Andre. Journals, 1889-1949. London. Penguin, 1992. (Of limited interest. See index under 'pederasty')
Hoyt, Edwin P. Horatio's Boys - the life and works of Horatio Alger. USA, 1983. Publisher Unknown.
Morris, F. The Death Of Narcissus. Secker and Warburg. London, 1976. (Useful thoughtful survey of paedophilia themes in pre-Nabokov literature, by a psychiatrist)
Pollard, Patrick. Andre Gide - homosexual moralist. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1991. (Also looks at the historical origins of theories of boylove)
Robinson, Christopher. Scandal in the Ink - male and female homosexuality in 20th century French literature. London, Cassell, 1995. (Has a chapter on paedophilia)
Shively, Charley. (Ed.) Drum-beats - Walt Whitman's Civil War boy-lovers. Gay Sunshine Press, USA, no date known (1980s ?)
Smith, T. Love In Earnest. London. Routledge, 1970. (A study of paedophilia in British 'Uranian' poetry and verse of the 1880s and 1890s)
Saintogne, Pierre de. Livre d'Or des Texts P edophiles: Des Origines a nos Jours. Societe Corydon, Paris, 1990. (If you can read French, this is an anthology of mainstream French literature with paedophile themes. Vol 2 out in 1992)
For more details of this and other anthologies, see the introduction to my own anthology.
For those who can read German, a special issue of the journal
Literatussi (13/14, 1993) was devoted to homosexuality in literature,
and had an article on 'Paedophilia and Literature'.
History
Golden, Mark. Children and childhood in Classical Athens. 1990. (No further information)
Koven, Seth. From rough lads to hooligans - boy life, national culture and social reform. IN: Parker, A. (Ed.) Nationalisms and Sexualities. Routledge, London, 1992. (Excellent article on the pederast underground in the late Victorian times, and its influence on the foundations of a welfare system in the UK)
'nß. aristoff' (Ed.) Girl-love and Girl-lust in 19th Century England. Passion Press, 1992. (64pp. Part short anthology, part essay. Available from the Ophelia address)
Oosterhuis, Harry. (Ed.) Homosexuality and male bonding in pre-Nazi Germany the youth movement, the gay movement, and male bonding before Hitler's rise; original transcripts from 'Der Eigene', the first gay journal in the world. Haworth Press. New Y ork, 1992. (Anthology of writings translated from the German, mostly about boy-love)
Ovenden, G. and Melville, R. Victorian Children. St. Martin's Press, late 1970s ? (Collection of original prints and negatives by pioneering Victorian photographers of children)
Pearson, M. The Age Of Consent - Victorian prostitution and its enemies. London. David and Charles, 1972. (Readable rather than incisive, but still a useful overview. Somewhat superseeded by Walkowitz in 1993.)
Tarnowsky, Dr. Benjamin. Pederasty in Europe. (Trans. Paul Gardner) Falstaff Press, New York, circa 1930s. (Very scarce, Delectus Books had a s/h copy at 95 in 1994)
Walkowitz, J.R. City of Dreadful Delight. Publisher unknown,
1993. (Complex and detailed academic social history of sexual panics
in nineteenth century Britain, with over half the book concentrating
on the age-of-consent issue. Available from the US Ophelia Editions
address)
Accounts of attempts to set up
self-help/campaigning paedophile groups
O'Carroll, T. Paedophilia - the radical case. (See above in 1a) )
Campaign Against Public Morals. Paedophilia and Public Morals. London. CAPM, 1980. Pamphlet. Reproduces news-cuttings about the PIE arrests, along with analysis of where PIE tactics went wrong, and details of the defence campaign run by anarchists - the only section of the Left which had the courage to mount one! The title refers to the antiquated 17th Century charge of "conspiracy to corrupt public morals" used to prosecute PIE Executive Committee members)
Moody, R. Indecent Assault. London. Peace News, 1980. Account of the trial and police harrasment of a PIE campaigner, who was later aquitted of false charges of 'indecent assault' - available from the Intermale address)
Plummer, K. Chapter 8. "The paedophile's" progress; a view from below. IN: Taylor, B. (ed.) Perspectives On Paedophilia. London. Batsford, 1981. ISBN 07134 37189. (Positive overview of paedophile attempts to set up self-help groups/organisations , in Britain and elsewhere)
Smith, S. A. 'PIE - from 1980 until its demise in 1985' IN:
Middleton, Warren (Ed.) The Betrayal of Youth - radical perspectives
on childhood sexuality, intergenerational sex, and the social
oppression of children and young people. London. CL Publi cations,
1986. (pp. 215-245)
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
(as if you needed more !)
Jones, G. The Social Study Of Pederasty - in search of a literature base; an annotated bibliography of sources in English. Journal Of Homosexuality. Vol. 8, No. 1, 1982. pp. 61-95. (Extensive bibliography of consensual boy-man relationships)
Dynes, W.R. Homosexuality - a research guide. Garland. New York/London, 1987. (Pages 604-612 contain a bibliography on 'intergenerational sex', which has references for many foreign-language books and articles, as yet untranslated into English.)
(Anon.) A Select Bibliography On Paedophilia. Gay Information (Australia), No.7, 1981, pp. 38-40, AND No.14-15, 1984, p. 67. (Might be useful if you're searching for Australian material from the 1970s and early 1980s)
Young, Ian. The Male Homosexual in Literature. 2nd Ed. USA, 1985.
Schlesinger, B. Sexual Abuse Of Children - a resource guide and annotated bibliography. Toronto University Press. Toronto, 1982. (Useful for academic researchers)
Kinsey Institute For Research in Sex. Pedophilia bibliography. Kinsey Institute, Indiana, USA, May 1984. (Kinsey Institute is at 313 Morrison Hall, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA. Bibliography costs $14.50 in USA, and an extra $1 gets you a copy of the list of all other 380 bibliographies available from the Institute, eg; 'Children and Sex Education'; 'Child and adolescent homosexuality'; and 'Child/Parent relationships'. Add lots of extra $'s if ordering from Europe).
Prinz Eisenhart, the Gay mail-order bookshop In Germany (see
elsewhere for address) do a large listing (several hundred items) of
all the books they have had over the past few years on the subject of
paedophilia.
ARTICLES;
Mostly post-1980 (Large libraries may keep back-copies of
journals, and will have newspaper archives available on microfilm.
You can also request article photocopies from libraries, who will send
your request to the British Library Documen t Supply Centre, who then
send back a copy of the article to the library for you to collect.
You may have to pay a nominal fee and fill in a form.)
General Articles
(not including all the articles published in Paidika. See 'Magazines' for address. They will send a subscription form which also lists most of the articles published. Same goes for all the other paedophile journals and magazines)
Barrie, E. Speak of the wolf - and see his tail. New Statesman and Society. 21.08.92. pp. 22-23. (Superb article, backed by references to current European research)
Califia, P. The Age Of Consent - An issue and its affects in the gay movement. Advocate [USA gay paper], No. 303, October 16th 1980 (pp. 19-23, 45) AND No. 304, October 30th 1980 (pp. 17-23, 45) (Argues that the 'Kiddie Porn' panics were stirred up by the moral reform element of the New Right to discredit and disrupt the sexual liberation movement of the late 1970s. This article may be collected in Califa's recent book-collection of essays)
Cash, William. An American Tradition. The Spectator. 11.09.93. pp.15-17. (Excellent articles about the rise of child abuse hysteria in the US, comparing it with McCarthy-ism. Incisive criticism is backed-up by solid statistics, and resumes of the f indings of recent US research which contradict those of the 'abuse industry')
Coward, R. A culture obsessed with abuse. The Observer. 06.06.93. p.54. (Excellent and perceptive article, reprinted in 'Uncommon Desires Newsletter' number 15, 1994)
Coward, R. The fatal attractions of a pied piper. The Observer. 08.09.93. (Excellent analysis of the Michael Jackson 'scandal')
Croall, J. The Harshest Accusation. The Guardian (Education Supplement) 05.10.93. pp. 6-7. (Looks at two cases of teacher's careers being ruined by false accusations of 'sexual abuse', and the consequent hysteria on the part of the 'child-police')
Eaton, L. Child Abuse...who's counting ? The Guardian. April 1993. (Questions the basis of child 'molestation'/abuse statistics, and finds them rather dubious)
Featherstone, J. Positive child-adult sex - the evidence. Anarchy - a journal of desire armed. Vol.1, No. 33. Summer 1992. pp. 60-68. (See 'Magazines' for address)
Illman, John. Let's Talk About Sex. The Guardian (2), 01.03.94. p. 18. (Reports that some family planning experts are hoping for a public debate on lowering the age of heterosexual consent in Britain, along the lines of the Dutch model - they'll be l ucky !)
Jervis, Margaret. First, confess sexual abuse. The Guardian. 03.02.93. (Scathing expose of the Gracewell Institute methods of brainwashing/ 're-education'. The Institute was the only place in Britain offering 'treatment' for paedophiles, but has since been refused a license to continue operating as a clinic)
Phillips, A. Beware the bogey mentality. The Guardian Weekend Supplement. 15.05.93. pp. 12. (Argues that 'stranger danger' indoctrination of children leaves a lasting scar on them, and is itself a form of abuse)
Rickford, F. The Lottery Of Life. The Guardian (2), 30.03.94. p. 15. (Results of various recent reports. States that it is impossible to identify in advance an 'at risk' child, and that only one-in-seven bureaucratic child protection investigations result in the child being 'registered', and that such registration then has no qualitative effect on the level of 'protection'. Further research suggests that middle-class social workers are primarily drawing on their own moral attitudes to police the p arenting practices of working-class and ethnic minority families, and evidence of 'hostility' toward the social-worker meant that an investigation was more likely to be pursued, regardless of evidence.)
Sage, A. Spanish gays offer Britain a moral. The Independent On Sunday. 29.09.91. p.4 (Article about Spain's lowering to 12 of age of legal consent)
Sandler, F. To Miss with love. The Guardian (2), 21.09.93. p. 17. (Four interviews with lesbians who fell in love with their teachers as schoolgirls. In two instances the love was reciprocated and the interviewees look back on the experience as bein g very positive. Reprinted from the June '93 edition of 'SheBang'. Reprinted in issue 15 of Uncommon Desires Newsletter.)
Scherer, Rene. On a 'minority complex'. Journal of Homosexuality, Vol. 25, No. 3. (On paedophilia)
Shultz, L. G. Child Sexual Abuse In Historical Perspective. Journal of Social Work and Human Sexuality, Vol 1, No. 1. 1982. pp. 21 - 35.
Steen, E. Has child sex reached the age of consent ? The Independent On Sunday. 18.11.90. (Broadly positive article on Holland's lowering of the age of legal consent to age 12)
Waterhouse, R. At Breaking Point. The Independent on Sunday (Review supplement) 25.10.92. pp. 6-9. (Excellent, savagely detailed criticisms of the investigative methods and assuptions of social-workers following up uncorroborated allegations of sexua l abuse, with case-studies of innocent families caught up in the cogs of an alternately misguided and paranoid bureaucracy)
Wilson, E. Immoral panics - sensationalising paedophilia evades
the issue. New Statesman and Society. 30.08.90. pp.18-19. (Not
overly positive, but thoughtful and fairly balanced, given the climate
of McCarthy-esque 'opinion' in Britain. By one of the UK's more
rational feminists)
Articles in
academic/professional journals
Bradley, M.Z. Feminine equivalents of Greek Love in Modern Fiction. International Journal of Greek Love, Vol.1, No. 1. pp. 48 - 58 (No date. Could 'M.Z. Bradley' be the famous science-fiction authoress?)
Bredeck, Gregory. Milton's Ganymede - negotiations of the homoerotic tradition in 'Paradise Regained'. Publication of the Modern Language Association, Vol. 106, No. 2. 1991. pp. 262 - 276
Brongersma, E. A defense of sexual liberty for all age groups. The Howard Journal Of Reform. Vol.27, No.1. Febuary 1988. pp.32-43. (Also looks at the European research, and ask why it has not been reported in Britain)
Brongersma, E. Aggression against paedophiles. International Journal Of Law and Psychiatry. No. 7, 1984. pp. 79-87.
Hall, J. and Martin, D. Crimes against children. New Law Journal; June 26 1992. pp. 902-903. (Rightly condemnatory towards coercion and violent abuse, but in general a relatively balanced and interesting look at the decision-making process behind jud icial sentencing for child-abuse and incest in the British courts)
Haugaard, J. Sexually abused children's opposition to psychotherapy. Journal Of Sexual Abuse, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1992. pp. 1-16. (This appears in a hyper-'correct' journal with a hideously negative attitude [where else would you find articles on 'satanic abuse networks' being taken seriously ?], but this is an interesting admission that many children who have been 'caught' in consenting relationships are often very resistant to their subsequent regime of 'therapy' - a 'therapy' which medicalises the lo ve they have experienced, denies the validity of their own feelings, and which tells them that their loved adult was 'bad'. Of course, the author can't see children's resistance as evidence that many children in consenting relationships might not want p sychotherapy, but rather he sees resistance as just a 'problem' to be overcome by more rigourous coercive practices)
Jones, M. Mark Twain and Sexuality. PMLA 71, (1956) pp. 595-616. (Discussion of Twain's platonic love of young girls, and the less platonic aspects of his dreams, as given in his journal and the posthumously published fragment 'My Platonic Sweetheart' . Twain's arguments for abolishing the age-of-consent can be found in Harper's Weekly, July 5th 1902, p. 732. There is a book on Twain's love of girls, "Mark Twain's Aquarium" available from the US Ophelia Editions address)
Leahy, T. Positively Experienced Man-Boy Sex - the discourse of seduction and the social construction of masculinity. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology. 28 (1), March 1992. pp. 71-88. Refs. (Examines the accounts given by the younger partner to validate their participation in a man/boy relationship.)
Menard, J. and Johnson, G. Incest; family dysfunction or sexual preference ? Family Therapy, Vol. 19. No. 2. (1992) pp. 115-122. (Interesting attempt to open up a space for debate)
Middleton, William. 'Last Rights'. Out, Vol. 1, No. 3, Dec/Jan 1993. (English summary of the events surrounding the assasination of Pasteur Joseph Douce "for paedophilia" by unknown murderers)
Moon, Micheal. "The gentle boy from the dangerous classes" - pederasty, domesticity and capitalism in Horatio Alger. Representations, 19, 1987.
Okami, P. Self-reports of positive childhood and adolescent sexual contacts with older persons - an exploratory study. Archives Of Sexual Behaviour. 20 (5), 1991.
Okami, P. "Child perpetrators of sexual abuse"; the emergence of a problematic 'deviant' category. Journal Of Sex Research, Vol. 29 (Feb. 1992) pp. 109-130. (Argues that the 'discovery' of alleged child-child sexual 'abuse', while it may happen trauma tically in a few rare cases, is primarily an attempt to construct a new media panic, by professional industry-builders who seek ever more resources, funding and media 'response')
Okami, P. Personality correlates of pedophilia; are they reliable indicators ? Journal Of Sex Research, Vol. 29 (Aug 1992) pp. 297-328. (Argues that FBI attempts to establish a 'personality profile' for paedophiles is methodologically flawed and should not be used as evidence in U.S. legal proceedings)
Shiltz, L.G. Child sexual abuse in historical perspective. IN: Conte, J.R. and Shore, D. (Eds.) 'Social Work and Child Sexual Abuse'. New York. Haworth Press, 1982. pp. 21-35. (Interesting overview, from a covertly positive perspective, of the histo rical development of ideas about child sexuality, with special reference to the moral reform movements in the USA. Not much to say about the historical development of the medico-legal category of 'the paedophile')
Rind, B. and Bausermann, R. Biased terminology effects and biased information processing in research on adult-nonadult sexual interactions - an empirical investigation. Journal of Sex Research 30 (3), August 1993, pp. 260-269. Tables, Refs. (Examines the way in which students processed neutral and positive data on the subject in a biased way, and were influenced to make a negative interpretation partly by negative terminology. Very relevant to almost every social-work degree course)
Roth, N. "Fawn of my delights" - Boy-love in Hebrew and Arabic
verse. IN: Salisbury, J. (ed.) Sex In The Middle Ages - A book of
essays. Garland. New York, 1991. pp. 157-172. (Very interesting, if
only to reveal the links between such poetry and t hat of Lorca.
Bibliography also lists previous articles by Roth and others on this
subject)
State censorship and art
Bellos, A. In the eye of the beholder ? Sunday Telegraph (Review) 02.01.94. p. 5. (Good article on the persecution of artist and photographer Graham Ovenden. Illus.)
Bellos, A. Propriety or puritanism ? The Guardian 05.02.94, p. 25. Good positive article on the Ron Oliver case, although it doesn't add much to Preston's previous Independent article.
Freeley, M. Little women. The Guardian Weekend Supplement. 16.01.93. pp. 16-17. (On Nancy Honey's magical photography)
Gale, Iain. Portrait of the artist as an accused man. The Independent 15.02.94. p. 25. (Full-page feature article about the persectution of artist Graham Ovenden. Very sympathetic, and plugs a London exhibition of the photographs which 'helped the O PS with their inquiries')
Morgan, Ted. Balthus: a private view of the painter. The Observer (Magazine supp.) 30.01.94. pp. 36-41. (Rare contemporary interview and profile of a man arguably regarded as 'the world's greatest living painter', and who is notorious for his erotici sed paintings of young girls)
Preston, R. A question of taste. The Independent (Colour magazine supplement) 04.09.93. p. 1, pp. 28-32. (Article about the vicious persecution in Britain of the photographic artist Ron Oliver, and the seizure by the Obscene Publications Squad of arc hives representing 16 years of work. Bravely, The Independent, a top British newspaper which has been so credulous to the claims of the OPS in the past, has chosen to illustrate the article with selections of Oliver's work, including a full page nude st udy)
Williams, V. The naked truth. The Guardian (2). 22.09.92.
p.17. (On Sally Mann's evocative, startling and often challenging
photographs of children)
Articles on
'satanic' abuse'/false-memory syndrome
Ascherson, N. Damn the children when the Devil must be found. The Independent On Sunday. 13.12.92.
Anon. Arlene's Agony. The Guardian (2). 06.01.94. pp. 2-3. (First hand account of the terror inflicted on a family when one member got sucked into a 'therapy' cult that used allegations of 'sexual abuse' as a weapon against the family of the cult me mber)
Barrett, John and Dexter, Frank. Satanic abuses. Here and Now, No. 11 (1991) pp. 17-21. (Good socio-political analysis of the Orkney and Rochdale cases in the UK. See Long for H&N address. Back issues available)
Evans-Pritchard, Ambrose. Forced memories of sex abuse fuel an industry. The Sunday Telegraph 05.12.93. p.25 (Excellent and highly skeptical feature article about the situation in the US, which highlights the huge financial gains made when dubious 'th erapists' extort 'compensation' from their 'patients' parents; 'compensation' which then goes to pay the exorbitant 'fees' charged by the 'therapist'. "Evil con-trick" is the phrase that springs to mind)
Grant, L. A past imperfect ? The Guardian (2). 24.05.93. pp. 10-11. (Useful article about 'False Memory Syndrome' and the wilder excesses of the alternative 'therapy' industry in Britain)
Hoggart, Simon. Tricks of the memory. The Observer (Magazine) 27.03.94. pp. 42-45. (Good highly skeptical article which rubbishes the claims made by therapists, but doesn't really add much new information.)
Jervis, Margaret. Virtual reality of tricks of memory. The Sunday Telegraph. 13.02.94. p.13. (Excellent article chronicling and attacking the way in which the myth of 'satanic abuse' has gained a stranglehold on the child-abuse industry)
Long, David. "When reason sleeps, monsters reign" (Goya); the satanic abuse myth. Here and Now, No. 13 (1992). pp. 10-13. (Excellent critique by an exsocial worker. Bibliography. 'Here and Now', a situationist-influenced journal of politics, is one of the few sites in the UK in which there has been a sustained attempt to critique this phenomenon at a high level of analysis. See also elsewhere [Barrett and Dexter, and Richards] in this listing. Copies of H&N and backissues can be obtained from: H &N, c/o Transmision Gallery, 28 King St, Glasgow, G1 5QP. 50p for sample copy, #3 for 3-issue sub in UK)
McDonald, Victoria. and Elliot, Valerie. Satanic networks dismissed in two reports. The Sunday Telegraph 13.02.94. p. 13. (Lengthy news-report which reveals the findings of two official reports on the alleged 'satanic abuse' panic. Both the Dept. of
Health and the Metropolitan Police reports' expose the panic as a myth, authoritatively discrediting the wild claims made by evangelical social workers. A lengthy feature article (see Jervis, above) accompanies the article, giving evidence on how the p anic has gained a stranglehold on the child-abuse industry)
Richards, A. Orcadian Abuse. Here and Now, No. 12 (1991). pp. 22-24. (Short article which critically analyses the text of a key editorial article which appeared in 'Scottish Child' at the time of the Orkney debacle, and goes on to draw wider criticis ms. See Long for H&N address)
Waterhouse, R. Goverment Enquiry Decides Satanic Abuse Does Not
Exist. Independent on Sunday, 24.04.94, p. 1. (Lead news story
revealing more contents and conclusions of the unreleased official
Department of Health report on the subject, using leaked photocopies
of sections of the report. Blames Evangelical social workers and
self-styled 'experts' for the panic and the damage to people's lives)
MAGAZINES, NEWSLETTERS AND JOURNALS
(non-pornographic)
Paidika - a journal of paedophilia. Stitching Paidika Foundation. Postbus 15463, 1001 ML Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Scholarly and cultural articles, poetry and news. Sub: Airmail Df.125 for four issues, Eurocheques OK. Two issues per year. Single cur rent issue is available from the US Ophelia Editions address for $14.30, or current/back issues from the Amsterdam Intermale address for Df.37. Currently starting its third volume. Circulation 750. ISSN 0167 5907.)
Uncommon Desires Newsletter. Postbus 408, 1000 AK, Amsterdam, Netherlands. or in USA: PO Box 2377, New York, NY 10185, USA. (Bi-monthly, a very well presented 'adult-girl loving' newsletter. 15 for four issues. Currently up to issue 15. Four issue s per year. The editor can send you a 'no photographs' version if you're in a censorious country)
Blaze. PO Box M231, Strawberry Hill, NSW 2021, Australia. (Working for decriminalisation of consenting relationships. Reviews research and political developments)
Koinos Magazine. Amikejo Foundation. PO Box 178, 2000 AD, Haarlem, The Netherlands. (International, in English and German. Boy-lovers [12+] slick magazine started in 1994, and currently on its fourth issue. 25/Hf60 Eurocheque four issue subscriptio n)
North American Man-Boy Love Association. PO Box 174, Midtown Sta. New York, NY 10018. USA. Campaigning group with regular newsletter/bulletin, currently up to Volume 14, Number 5. Editor: Bill Andriette. Ten issues per year. $5 per issue, $25 subs - $40 outside USA. Circulation 2,000. NAMBLA also publish a new magazine with longer articles, stories and art 'Gayme', edited by Bill Andriettee, which is about older youths. Currently on its second issue - which can be had from the Intermale addres s, or the Prinz Eisenhart address. I belive there may also be a 'NAMBLA Journal' twice a year.)
Anarchy - a journal of desire armed. $3 for sample copy/back-copy by surface mail. CAL Press, POB 1446, Columbia, MO. 652051446. USA. (The main USA anarchist magazine, complete with glossy colour cover! Often carries a few listings and addresses for paedophile publications in its extensive 'alternative press review' section, soon to be hived off as a separate publication. Issue 19 [May/July 1989] was a special issue on 'Children's Sexuality'. Current and back-issues available in Britain at 3 eac h including postage, from: AK Retail, 22 Lutton Place, Edinburgh EH8 9PE)
Journal Of Homosexuality. (USA. Volume 20, No. 1 and 2, 1990, titled 'Male Intergenerational Interaction'. [Eds.: Sandford, Brogsmera, van Naerssen. ISSN/ISBN 0091-8369]. A special double-issue on the subject of man-boy paedophilia, containing many v ery interesting, diverse, and well-researched positive academic articles. One of the editorial board is also on the board for Paidika. JoH is available from Haworth Press, 10 Alice St, Binghampton, NY 13904. USA. Tel: 800-342-9678. Can also be had in Europe from the Intermale address)
Martijn. (I have not seen this, but apparently it is still publishing. Dutch paedophile magazine, text in dutch. PO Box 442, 7000 AK Hoogeven, Netherlands. Another possible address is Postbus 5478, 1007 AL Amsterdam)
Philius. (German with a majority of boy-loving coverage. 48 pages typescript, started in 1987 and published bi-monthly. Essays, book reviews, reports. Wolfgang Timmer Verlag. PO Box 110765, D-1000 Berlin 11. Tel; (030) 694 34 78, or (030) 465 39 60 . *Information dated 1989, so may be out of date)
Lesbian and Gay Freedom Movement newsletter. LGFM, BM Box 207, London WC1N 3XX. (12 pages. Costs 0.60p inc. postage. Excellent well-presented newsletter from an anarchist-aligned UK group, who's aims include, among others, "Sexual freedom for all age s", and to support "Children in their fight for liberation and freedom to choose their own sexuality" and support for "Oppressed sexualities including...girl/girl lovers, girl/woman and man/boy lovers...". Currently up to issue 7, Summer '93. The LGFM hold regular meetings in London.)
Semiotext(e) Magazine (New York). Loving Boys - special issue. 'Semiotext(e) Special, Intervention Series 2: Loving Children (Summer 1980)'. (Interviews with a variety of left theoreticians and activists, including Kate Millet and the late Michel Fouc ault. I'm not sure where you could acquire a copy of this - try writing to Semiotext(e) publishers; Autonomedia, Box 568, Williamsburg Station, Brooklyn, NY 11211-0568. USA. A more current magazine from Semiotext(e)/Autonomedia is 'Wild Children', a 64-page open-access 'zine in which children speak for themselves on a variety of subjects. Includes a reprint of the hilarious British "School Stoppers Textbook: 99 ways to sab otage your school", compiled by children active in the Sheffield school-strikes during the mid-1980s. Available in UK for #4.45 inc. p&p, from Counter Productions, PO Box 556, London SE5 0RL)
'Vogue Bambini'. Children's clothing trade-magazine by Vogue.
Text in Italian. Published six times a year. (Packed with stunningly
beautiful 'art' style colour photographs, of the exceptional quality
associated with Vogue magazine. Often available i n very large
city-centre branches of newsagents, at #5 a copy, distributed via
Comag. Be discreet when you purchase copies - dress smartly to look
like you might be in the fashion business - and always use cash, as
credit-cards can leave a record of wha t you purchase in 'consumer
profile' computer databases!) ** Other overseas fashion magazines
available, if ordered from large newsagents, are; Gap Italia Bambibi
(Italy, quarterly), Kindermode (Netherlands, 2 per year), Studio
Bambini (Australia), and JPG Enfants and Sacha Pancha Enfants (both
France).
NOW DEFUNCT MAGAZINES
(Non-pornographic. If you see old adverts for these, don't send for them. Always be very wary of entrapment. Some ads are placed by law-enforcement agencies, or they may seize and note addresses on mail sent to a legitimate ma iling address after police raids)
Childhood Sensuality Circle Newsletter (USA); Gay Youth Community
News (USA); Wonderland (USA - an FBI 'sting' operation !); Pan
(Amsterdam); PIE Newsletter (UK, PIE); Childhood Rights (UK);
Understanding Paedophilia (UK); Magpie (UK, PIE); Hermes (USA); Boys
International; Better Life (USA).
FANZINES/AMATEUR MAGAZINES
(Non-pornographic - though you should be aware that some may have 'risqu' images which could cause Customs postal inspectors to prevent delivery)
"Dry Pocket". Some child-loving material amongst other sex-positive articles and letters. Stevec Bones, Box 8039, Richmond, IN 47357-8039, USA. (38 pages, $1, maybe $3 overseas)
"I Am". Man-boy love culture zine; comix, poetry, reviews, articles. Address changed from that given in Update 1. Is now : Chuck Dodson, c/o The Guide, Box 593, Boston, MA 02199, The United States of America, USA. (46 pages, $5.50, maybe $8 for overs eas)
"Ped-Men". Non-fiction experiences of man-boy love from prisoners in the USA. J.M. Box 571, Whitman, MA 02382, USA. (10 pages, $5.50, maybe $8 overseas)
"F'Sheet5" Andrew Roller, 5960 S. Land Park Drive, Suite 331, Sacramento, CA 95822, USA. (12 pages, $1 for sample copy, maybe $2.50 overseas)
"Man-bag" Frankie, Artpolicecomics Inc. 1611 Elliot Ave. Minneapolis, MN 55404-1621, USA. ($2.50 per issue, maybe $5 overseas ? Two issues so far. Mentioned in UDN)
"Inciting Desire". General sexzine with a positive attitude, with
some childloving material and poetry. 343 Soquel Avenue, Suite 151,
Santa Cruz, CA 95062, USA (32 pages. $5 for sample copy. Maybe $8
for overseas)
EUROPEAN SELF-HELP GROUPS
(Listings here are taken from a 1989 publication, so some may now be defunct...)
Amsterdam, Netherlands: CÖ.C. Amsterdam, Rozenstraat 14. Tel; 23 40 79 (Dutch society for sexual reform, has paedophile group. If you are in Amsterdam you might also like to check out the Intermale bookshop - Spuistraat 251-253, 1012 VR Amsterdam. T el: (0)20-6250009. They do a 'Special Catalogue' for boy-lovers ordering by mail)
Copenhagen, Denmark. [Kobenhavn]: Paedophile group meets weekly. PO Box 330, 1503 Kobenhavn V. Tel; 38 19 23
Berlin, Germany: Arbeitsgruppe Pdophilie. PO Box 360226. Tel;
453 53 57. (If you are in Berlin, a gay bookshop which also does a
wide range of books on boy-love and general paedophilia is Prinz
Eisenherz - Bleibtreustr. 52, 1000 Berlin 12. Tel: 030 -3139936)
PUBLISHERS
The Coltsfoot Press. (PO Box 3496, 1001 AG, Amsterdam. Publishers of fiction and academic books about relationships between men and boys)
Ophelia Editions. (Amsterdam and New York, Geldersekade 80a III, NL 1012 BL Amsterdam. Current book-list includes non-fiction and art/photography books, all currently legal in USA. UK readers would probably be best ordering from their Amsterdam addre ss [see end of the 'Fiction' listing] but should beware that photography books from Amsterdam are probably more likely to be stopped by Customs officers than those coming from elsewhere...)
Academy Editions. (Information may be out-of-date. Same address as Ophelia ?)
Other publishers to look out for are Acolyte Press, Global
Academic Publishers, Promethious Books, Haworth Press, Dyanthus Press.
PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTIONS
(Non-pornographic)
Hamilton, D. (Text by Coutts, D.) The Best Of David Hamilton. London. Collins, 1981. ISBN 0 00 216078 1. (Lovely misty romantic photographs of blond young girls, by this world-famous photographer.)
Hamilton, D. David Hamilton's Private Collection. Morrow. New York, 1980 ISBN 0 688 00402 4.
Hamilton, D. and Robbe-Grillet, A. Dreams Of A Young Girl. Morrow. New York, 1971. ISBN 0 688 01482 8.
A retrospective of the work of David Hamilton '25 Years as an Artist' is to be published in Britain in 1993.
A collection of work by the acclaimed art photographer Ron Oliver (see 'Preston, R.' above, in 'articles') is likely to be published in November 1994, by Iconography II, Amsterdam. No UK publication details as yet, if ever, given the current neuroses of the OPS at Scotland Yard.
Mann, Sally. Immediate Family. London. Phaidon, 1992. (There was also a previous collection called 'At Twelve'. Both are available from Ophelia Editions)
During August-October 1993, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery staged a major exhibition called "Photographing Children", covering photography from Victoriana to the modern day. There may well be an illustrated catalogue available. Aperture have pu blished a mostly theoretical book of essays on nude and erotic images in contemporary photography, 'The Body In Question', available from the Ophelia address.
See also the work of Robert Doisneau (Les Enfants, 1992) For boys see also the work of Ian David Baker ('Younger Days', GMP 1993), and Will McBride, member of the Magnum school. The turn-of-the-century equivalent of David Hamilton (for boys) was Wilhelm von Gloeden. Tashen published a collection of his adole scent nudes in 1994.
For girls, see also the work of Jan Saudek, Graham Ovenden,
Henson, Dubin, and the Ophelia postcards series. (All Ophelia
Editions).
PAINTERS, ARTISTS AND
ILLUSTRATIONS
(There are a host of lovely studies by 19th century romantic painters and sculptors, including George Clausen and Jaques Joseph Tissot. For a choice selection, you might track down the catalogue for the "Innocence And Experience" exhibition [Shown in Manchester and Nottingham, 1992/93] )
See also: Balthus (started off as a surrealist, but now hailed as 'the world's greatest living artist'), Peter Blake (contemporary), Gilbert And George (Contemporary. Especially early work, like 'Friendship' and 'Trust'), and Ascsah Barlow Brewster (esp ecially the lovely 1921 girl-nude watercolour 'Hamadryad') who had a 1992 exhibition in New York by Borghi and Co.
Graham Ovenden. Barley Splatt, Panters Bridge, Warloggan, Mount, Bodmin. Cornwall. (Commissions. Beautifully painted portraits of girls by an extremely talented contemporary artist. Mainly works on commission for overseas customers due to the current repressive climate in Britain. As seen on Channel 4 in 'Lolita Unclothed'! Collections of work available from Ophelia Eds, or an original work from Piccadilly Gallery, 16 Cork St, London W1). Was also featured, along with other Ruralists, in a special profile issue of 'Art and Design': Papadakis, A.C. (Ed.) 'The Ruralists'; an Art and Design Profile. Academy Editions, London. 10 from Academy Group Ltd, 7 Holland Road, LONDON W8 4NA.
In the first years of this century, Picasso returned to rural Spain and painted charmingly fresh nude studies of children and adolescents in a romantic and non-abstact style (what is now known rather tastelessly as his 'flesh' period. He also wrote a pl ay with the intruiging title 'The Four Little Girls', published circa 1970 in the USA by John Calder.)
Girl-lovers might be interested in the paintings of surrealist Christin Couture. For more details check: Chadwick, N. Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement. London. Thames and Hudson, 1985.
Cooper, E. The Life And Work Of Henry Scott Tuke. London. Gay Men's Press, 1987. (Famous Victorian painter of semi-naked pubescent boys and seascapes)
Micheal Parkes. Micheal Parkes. Steltman Editions, Amsterdam 1993. (Collections of impressive paintings of girls. Available from Ophelia Editions)
Cabanes, M. Heart Throbs. Xpresso Books. London, 1991. ISBN 1 85386 262 2. (Award-winning graphic-novel from Belgium. Its luminous watercolour panels tell a semi-autobiographical story, and the book represents one of the pinnacles of the European gr aphic-novel tradition)
Johnson, Judy M. (Ed.) Children and their world - a treasury of vintage cuts and illustrations. New York, Dover Publications Inc, 1990. ISBN 0-48626457-2. (350 classic black-and-white line illustrations from childrens books from 1900s-1920s. And all copyright-free !)
Johnson, Judy M. (Ed.) Vintage spot illustrations of children - 795 cuts from the teens and twenties. New York, Dover Publications Inc, (date unknown). ISBN 0-486-26351-7.
Belanger Grafton, Carol (Ed.) Children - a pictorial archive from Nineteenth Century sources. New York, Dover Publications Inc, (date unknown). ISBN 0486-23694-3.
(The above three are all copyright-free - and the three books
together cost only $18 in the USA. Dover's address is: 31 East 2nd
Street, Mineola, NY 11501.)
FEATURE FILMS
(Mainstream, non-pornographic)
Broken Blossoms. 1919 (USA. Dir. D.W. Griffiths. A young oriental man falls in love with a beautiful twelve-year-old waif, played by Lillian Gish, and is heartbroken when she is murdered killed by her sadistic father. Available on video. From the n ovel Limehouse Nights, available from the US Ophelia Editions address)
Madchen in Uniform. 1931 (Germany. Dir. Leonitine Sagan. Moving melodrama about a schoolgirl's affair with a female teacher. Still much acclaimed today, and available on video. Banned by the Nazi's, which is all the more reason to see it)
Pennies From Heaven 1936. (USA. 8-year-old orphan Edith Fellows falls in love with Bing Crosby, a singing ex-convict who she meets in fairground. An antique mix of comedy, melodrama and musical, but still enjoyable, although the problems caused by of ficialdom are eventually ironed out by marriage and adoption)
Major And The Minor. 1942. (USA. The 'Lolita' of the 1940s. Comedy)
The Curse of the Cat People. 1944. (USA. Dir. Gunther von Fritsch. Sequel to the eerie 'Cat People', this stars the six-year-old Ann Carter as a lonely sensitive girl who summons up the ghost of the first 'human cat', Simone Simon, in what seems to b ecome a lightly disguised allegory of inter-generational 'forbidden' love, complete with 'good' child-lover and 'bad' child-hater conflict at the end. You may 'read' it as just a good creepy psychological ghost story, but it is certainly very open to in terpretation. It helps if you've also seen the original 'Cat People', but see 'Curse...' anyway and judge for yourself. Available on video)
Portrait of Jennie. 1948. (US. An etherial romance between two generations; a struggling New York painter and a mysterious little girl he falls in love with in Central Park, and whose age moves from childhood to womanhood as the film progresses. Char mingly handled with expert direction, photography and acting all round, and a lyrical score taken from Debussy's 'Afternoon of a Faun'. Based on the novel by Robert Nathan. Available on video)
Don't Ever Leave Me. 1949. (UK. An antique now, but rather charming in its own fey way. Comedy, with tinges of seriousness)
Olivia. 1951 (France. Dir. Jacqueline Audry. Covers similar ground to Madchen In Uniform (1931), but is nowhere near as positive, seeing lesbianteacher crushes as 'phases' which 'healthy girls' should leave behind as they grow into same-age heterosex uality. From a psuedonymous novel (1949) by Dorothy Bussey, sister of Lytton Strachey)
The Spanish Gardener. 1956 (UK. Dir. Philip Leacock. Film of the A.J. Cronin novel, starring Dirk Bogarte. An excellent article on the film by Andy Medhurst, '"It's as a man that you've failed" - masculinity and forbidden desire in 'The Spanish Gard ener'.' IN: Kirkham, P. and Thumin, J. (Eds.) You Tarzan - masculinity, movies and men. Lawrence and Wishart, London, 1993. Though Bogarte is unconvincing - no attempt at a Spanish accent - this is an very accomplished film with a top-notch cast)
Shane. (USA. Classic western. Boy-lovers should adore it)
The Scamp. 1957. (UK. Dir. Wolf Rilla. Richard Attenborough stars as a childless schoolteacher who cares for a ten-year-old working-class boy)
The Young One. 1961. (Mexico. Interesting if somewhat sordid early Luis Bunuel film)
The Greengage Summer. 1961. (UK. Dir. Lewis Gilbert. Complex romantic drama with Kenneth Moore and Susannah York. From the novel by Rumer Godden)
Term Of Trial. 1962. (UK. Dir. Peter Glenville. Schoolteacher Lawrence Olivier is accused of indecently assaulting a 15 year-old pupil)
Lolita. 1962. (USA. Disappointing and shapeless film of the novel, despite Peter Sellers and Nabokov's Oscar-nominated screenplay. Available on video)
Sundays And Cybele. 1962 (French, orig. title 'Cybele ou les Dimanches'. Moving story about the love between a 30-something amnesiac and a twelve-year-old orphan girl. Not on video)
This Special Friendship. 1965 (France. No further details)
A High Wind In Jamaica. 1965 (UK. Dir. Alexander McKendrick. Very moving and unconventional melodrama with Anthony Quinn as a pirate who captures a group of children. Available on video. From the best-selling 1929 novel by Richard Hughes, whose rec ent biography shows him to have had a 'Lewis Carroll'type attraction to little girls)
Sky West and Crooked. 1966. (UK. Stars Haley Mills. Available on video)
Twinky (Italy/US, 1969. Charles Bronson and Susan George; touching love story, with flashes of comedy, about a young teenage bride who arrives in New York with her fourty-something husband, and the problems and prejudices they face. Not really paedoph ile, but about intergernerational relationships)
Le Souffle au Coeur. 1970 ? (France. No further details)
Death In Venice. 1971. (Italy. From the famous novelette by Thomas Mann. Available on video)
Mourir d'aimer. 1971. (France. Dir. Andrea Cayette. Fictional account of the 'Russier affair', when a woman had an affair with an adolescent during the May 1968 events in Paris. Won the 'Grand Prix du Cinema Francais', but is now hard to locate)
The Mark. 1971. (UK. Further details unknown, concerns the blackmail of a paedophile)
The Last Snows Of Spring 1973 (Italy. No further details)
The Offence. 1973. (UK. Dir. Sidney Lumet. Sean Connery and Ian Bannen star as detective and alleged paedophile, locked in a battle of wills as Connery gradually realises that it is he who harbours dark thoughts about children, not the alleged paedophile he is brutally questioning)
Paper Moon. 1973. (USA. Charming Oscar-winner. From the novel 'Addie Pray')
Short Eyes 1977 (USA. Not for the squeamish - an innocent man accused of child molesting is subject to brutal treatment in prison. Available on video)
Pretty Baby. 1978. (USA. Disjointed and rather distastful. Available on video)
L'Adolescente. 1979. (French. No further details. Available on video)
Little Darlings. 1980. (USA. Purient 'girls coming-of-age' story. Available on video)
The Nest. 1981. (Spain. Dir. Jaime De Armenian. No further details. Available on video in USA.)
Dreamchild. 1985. (USA/UK. Dir. Gavin Miller. Award-winning story of Lewis Carroll and his love for the real Alice, Alice Lidell, and her subsequent life and memories of him. C4 TV movie(?) )
Lamb. 1988. (UK. Channel Four. Not available on video. From the novel by Bernard MacLaverty, about an Irish priest who takes a boy away from a cruel children's home)
Summer Vacation 1999. 1988. (Japan. Dir. Shusuke Kaneko. Exquisite gay love story of four schoolboys who stay behind at their boarding school in the countryside during the summer holidays. Visually striking, full of mystery and ghostly auras. Not on video)
Kung Fu Master. 1989. (France. Dir. Agnes Varda. Story of love between a 40 year old woman and a 15 year old boy)
"Great Balls Of Fire !" 1989. (USA. Available on video. Story of Jerry Lee Lewis's romance and marriage with his 13-year-old cousin. Very positive story)
The Children. 1990. (UK. Channel Four. From Edith Wharton's novel, recently reprinted by Virago in the UK. Not available on video)
The Stolen Children. 1992. (Italy. Dir. Gianni Amelio. Based on a true story of a young policeman entrusted to take a 11-year-old prostitute and her younger brother from Milan to Rome, and the trust and love that grows between them)
Leolo. 1993. (Canada. Bizzare family (sex) life of a young boy. Available on video)
Voor een Verloren Soldaat. 1992 (Netherlands. Dir. Roeland Kerbosh. Based on the novel by Rudi van Dantzig, about a boy who falls in love with a soldier)
Leon. 1995 (France. Dir. Luc Bresson. Mainstream film about a hit man and a twelve year old girl, and their love affair.))
See also the books:
Sinclair, M. Hollywood Lolitas - the nymphet syndrome in the movies. Holt. USA, 198?. ISBN 0 8050 0931 0. (Now out-of-print in USA, but available from the US Ophelia Editions address)
Goldstien, G.M. and Zornow, E. The Screen Image of Youth - movies
about children and adolescents. New Jersey. Scarecrow Press, 1980.
QUALITY
FICTION/AUTOBIOGRAPHY/POETRY
Airey, S. Messer Rondo and other stories by gay men. Gay Men's Press. London, 1983. ISBN 0 907040 21 7. (Wonderful title novella)
Bradford, E.E. To Boys Unknown. Gay Men's Press. London, 1988. (Poems. Bradford was a rural vicar in Norfolk from 1899 to the 1940s)
Brown, J.D. Addie Pray. (Turned into the Oscar-winning film 'Paper Moon'. Has an extra chapter which takes the story beyond the film's ending)
Bey, Hakim (Ed. and translator) O Tribe That Loves Boys - the poetry of Abu Nuwas. (Fifty-three free translations of pederastic poems from the poet of Baghdad's '1001 Nights'. Available from the Intermale address, and possibly from the Gay Men's Press in the UK)
'Olivia' (Psued. of Dorothy Strachey Bussy.) Olivia. Hogarth Press, 1949. (Girl-woman loving novel, on the 'dangers' of schoolgirl crushes with teachers. Later filmed in France and subject of radio play in UK)
Califa, Pat. Doc and Fluff - the dystopian tale of a girl and her biker. Alyson, Boston, 1990. (Science fiction novel depicting cross-generational relationship)
Colette. Claudine at School. New York, 1957. (Since reprinted by Penguin. Woman-girl love)
Coote, S. (ed.) The Penguin Book Of Homosexual Verse. Penguin. London, 1986. (Second revised edition. A mixed bunch, but this contains much to interest lovers of boys, with a variety of translations from Greek, Roman and Latin poets, and many more Vi ctorian and contemporary man-boy love poems)
Men and Boys: an anthology. New York. Coltsfoot Press, 1978. (Reprint, with commentary, of the 1924 edition of man/boy love poetry)
Cook, D. Happy Endings. London. Arena, 1989. ISBN 0 09 958300 3. (Winner of the 1977 E.M. Forster Award. Poignant story of a teacher who loves young girls. Still available in some bookshops in 1993)
Cook, D. Crying Out Loud. London. Alison, 1988.
Ferguson, Margaret. Sign of The Ram. Blackiston, Philidelphia, 1957. (Womangirl love)
Filipacchi, Amanda. Nude Men. Heinemann. London, 1993. (A weird and magical comedy novel about a licentious 11-year-old and her seduction of the vulnerable Jeremy Acidophilus. A roller-coaster plot, and often hilarious, but gets darker towards the e nd)
Gamble, Peter. The More We Are Together - memoirs of a wayward life. Paul Watkins, Stamford, UK, 1994. ( 19.95. Frank autobiography of a boy-lover, made interesting by the fact that he was a Church of England priest acting as Chaplain at several lead ing public schools, including Harrow. H/b Available from the Intermale address)
Godden, Rumer. The Greengage Summer. (See 'Films')
Hughes, Richard. A High Wind in Jamaica. 1929. (See 'Films')
Holland, Isabelle. The Man Without A Face. Lippincott. New York, 1972. Reissued: Pan. London, 1993. (A 14 year-old boy becomes emotionally involved with a disfigured older man, and falls in love. Very poignant and rather positive, though with an all-too-convenient ending. Filmed (badly) in 1993 with Mel Gibson and an altered plot)
John, Edmund. The Flute of Sardonyx. The Old Stile Press, Llandogo, Wales, 1991. (Limited edition reprint of the best volumes of Uranian poetry).
Mann, Thomas. Death In Venice. (1912) London. Penguin, 1992. (Wonderful novella, utterly moving and beautifully written)
Maugham, Robin. Behind The Mirror. (No further details. Mentioned in 'The Death of Narcisuss')
Moore, Pamela. Chocolates For Breakfast. Rinehart, New York, 1956. (Womangirl love)
Nabokov, V. Lolita. (1955) London. Penguin, 1993. (The classic novel, a landmark of world fiction, and quite possibly the finest novel of the 20th century)
Anias Nin (Short story 'Little Birds')
Penna, Sandro. Remember me, God of Love. Carcanet. Manchester, 1993. (Poems of man-boy love and eroticism)
Pears, Tim. In Place Of Fallen Leaves. Hamilton, 1993. (First-novel about a 13 year-old Devon farm girl and her relationship with a shy aristocrat. Not really paedophiliac, but a superb novel)
Philebus; John, Edmund; and Wright, Cuthbert. Blue Boys. Gay Men's Press, London, 1990. (Selection of poetry and verse from the late 1800's, by three Uranian poets)
Rampling, Anne (pseudonym of Anne Rice) Belinda. MacMillan, 1986. (First published Arbor House, New York, 1986, then reprinted by various USA publishers. UK 'Books In Print' lists MacMillan paperback still in print in UK. Story of a love affair betw een a world-famous children's book illustrator and a young girl. He produces his very best work painting and drawing her, but can show it to no-one for fear it would ruin his career. By a world-famous and hugely popular writer)
Reid, Anthony. The Eternal Flame - A world anthology of homosexual verse. (Volume 1: Greece, Italy, Islam, France.) Dyanthus Press. New York, 1992. (With first translations of much unknown material and has much boy-love poetry)
Rolfe, Frederick. W. (Alias Baron Corvo) The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole. (1934. Recently reissued in complete edition in UK by Quartet. Man-boy love novel set in Venice, where Nicholas Crabbe falls for his servant, the adolescent mutable boy/gi rl Zildo. Also available from the Prinz Eisenhart address)
Saikaku, Iharu. (Trans. and Ed. Schalow, P.) The Great Mirror Of Male Love. 1990. (Japanese man-boy love classic)
Stewart, Angus. Sandel. Panther Books. London, 1970. (About an Oxford undergraduate's attraction to choirboys)
Theroux, Paul. Millroy The Magician. London. Hamish Hamilton, 1993. (Story of Millroy, who spots Jilly, a motherless 14-year-old, at a country fair, and the relationship that ensues)
Twain, Mark. My platonic sweetheart. (Twain attempts to distill his dream landscape and the character of the young girl whom he loves within it. You may come across the later short work in the Collected Works (USA edition) in Writings XXVII, pages 287 -304, or in a collection of the 'Mysterious Stranger' manuscripts)
Wharton, Edith. The Children (1928) London. Virago, 1985, reprinted 1994.
Winsloe, Christa. The Child Manuela. Farrar, New York, 1933.
X, Victor. The Confessions Of Victor X. (Translated by Rayfield, D.) New York. Grove Press, 1985. ISBN 0 394 62055 0. (Written in the early 1900s in pre-revolutionary Russia. A primary inspiration for Nabokov's 'Lolita')
Thomas Mann's 'Death In Venice' and Nabokov's 'Lolita' are now available in the UK in sumptous acid-free paper hardback editions, at about 9 each from Everyman (althogh 'Lolita' has a fairly hideous 'introduction' by the slimy Martin Amis). A museum de dicated to the life and work of Vladimir Nabokov (author of Lolita, 1899-1977) is being planned for his family house in St. Petersburg. Information in exchange for a small donation (dollar bill ?) from: Valentina Bushlyaeva, 47 Bolshaya Morskaya Ulitsa, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation.
You can find some man-boy/adolescent fiction and autobiography (eg; by Forrest Reid, Richie McMullen, Felice Picano, Casimir Dukahz [Acolyte's 1991 'Shakespeare's Boy' has a bibliography of his works], Michael Davidson, Patrick Drevet, Bruno Vogel, Step hen Dueweke, Kevin Esser, Andre Gould, Bo Huston, Rudi van Dantzig, and Wallace Hamilton) in the Gay Men's Press catalogue: PÖ. Box 247, LONDON N15 6RW. If GMP don't stock particular books or authors, you could try putting a classified advert in Gay T imes or the Pink Paper. For a useful bibliography of more mainstream fiction, see also: Cueso, Allan. Homosexual Characters in Young Adult Novels. Scarecrow Press, 1992, and Young, Ian. The Male Homosexual in Literature. 2nd Ed, 1985.
If you want to venture overseas for English-language fiction, you can also order a host of man-boy fiction (rather trashy-looking stuff like the Acolyte Reader and similar, it must be said) from the Intermale and Prinz Eisenhart addresses via their mail- order catalogues from the Prinz Eisenherz and Intermale bookshops - for addresses see the 'European groups' section.
Fiction of interest to girl-lovers can be obtained from the
ever-wonderful Ophelia Editions, PO Box 2377, New York, New York,
10185 [Fax (212) 787-5834]. Send $2 for their latest flyers and
price-list. They also do a limited selection of academic books and
expensive art-photographic books. If you are regularly
buying/subscribing mail-order from USA, you might like to ask your
bank about opening a dollar cheque account so you can sent cheques at
a cheaper rate than bank's expensive 'money-orders'. It
is also more private as you don't have to declare who you want a money-order made payable to. The same goes for Europe and eurocheques)
SONGS
The Police: 'Don't stand so close to me'.
Jerry Lee Lewis: 'Sweet little sixteen'.
The Paragons: 'Hey Little Schoolgirl'
Chuck Berry: 'School Day'/'Sweet little sixteen'/'Sweet little rock&roller'/'Little Marie'.
The Smiths: 'Reel around the fountain'/ 'The hand that rocks the cradle'/'This charming man'/'Handsome devil'/'I want the one I can't have'/'Barbarism begins at home'/'Stretch out and wait'.
The Pet Shop Boys 'Young Offender' Morrissey 'Billy Budd'
LEGAL REPRESENTATION
Only about 10 % of child-adult relationship/sex allegations are
brought to court in Britain (Guardian 03.02.94), and most defendents
in non-violent cases are granted bail. Of cases brought to court
about 80% result in a conviction (usually because of a confession),
and of those only 10% are given a custodial prison sentence: and then
usually only in cases of incest, or in the repulsive cases where
coercion/force/violence has been used, or where an adult's position of
authority was misused. However, if accused (even unjustly) in the
current climate of neo-puritan hysteria and zealous Kafka-esque
bureaucracy, it is vital to exercise your right-to-silence, and get
sympathetic independent legal represention. Do not confide in the
legal solicitor's clerk s on 'duty' at police stations, as a recent
report revealed that they can be all too 'chummy' with the police -
just use them to 'back up' your right-to-silence and advise you on
further legal options. Recommended solicitor: Simonetta Hornby, of
Hornby and Le vy, 2 Acre Lane, London SW2 5SG. Obviously, you won't
mention where you found the contact details. You would also be well
advised to relocate or destroy any incriminating collection, however
'innocent' it may appear. If you have been, or fear you may be,
'exposed' in the tabloid newspapers ('News of the World', etc), your
first stop should be the Press Complaints Commission's Help Line: Tel,
071 353 3732.
FAMOUS CHILD LOVERS
(check biographies, autobiographies, diaries, letters): Many
ancient Greek poets and philosophers, Dante, Goethe, Pierre de Ronsard
(1524-1585. French poet.); Cellini (Autobiography reprinted by
Penguin 1993); Remy Belleaue (Fren ch contemporary of Ronsard), Andrew
Marvell (1621-78; famous metaphysical poet and satirist), Samual
Peyps, Novalis, Lord Byron, Lewis Carroll, John Ruskin, Edward Lear,
Charles Kingsley, Edgar Allen Poe, Hugh Walpole, Anton Bruckner
(1824-96; famous Aus trian composer), A.E. Houseman, Mark Twain, Walt
Whitman, Gauguin, Benjamin Britten (see Faber's 1992 biography and the
letters), E.M. Forster, Frederico Garcia Lorca (Spanish poet and
playwright) J.M. Barrie, Henry James, Andre Gide, Mogidliani (artist,
fell in love with Jeanne H when she was 14), Thomas Mann, Forrest Reid, W.H. Auden, Field Marshall Montgomery, Arthur Ransome, John Barrymore (actor), T.H. White, William Carlos Williams (?), Howard Hughes, Lord Baden-Powell (Founder of the Boy-Scouts,
was def
initely gay, and several biogs suspect attraction to young boys), T.E. Lawrence, Sir Roger Casement, Anne Saxton (poet; had incestious relationship with daughter, according to biog.), Charlie Chaplin, Errol Flynn, Lord Reith (founder of the BBC), William
Douglas, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Roman Polanski.
SOME USEFUL ETHICAL GUIDELINES
(Most European countries do not have seperate legislation for homosexual acts, but many have some sort of legislation against 'corruption of minors'. Although intergenerational love is not frowned upon in Thailand, the police can and do use laws framed for 'kidnapping' to prosecute/blackmail Westerners found in the company of children)
Spain - 12; Holland - 12; Portugal - 12; Italy - 14; Austria - 14; Leichtenstein - 14; Iceland - 14; Bulgaria - 14; Germany - 14; Hungary - 14; Luxembourg - 14; Turkey - No age of consent; Malta - 12 years (but there is also a charge of 'corruption o f minors' which is in use); San Marino - 14; Outside Europe: Canada - 14. Japan - 13.
In Britain, the age of consent was only raised from 12 to 13 in 1875, and finally raised to 16 in 1885. Incest was not made deliniated as a seperate crime until 1908. "Paedophilia" was a medical term first coined in 1906, although there is some evidence of earlier use of such terms as 'pedophil'.
Phew, well that's about as complete as I can make it. I dare say there's a few errors here and there, but on the whole I think this is a fairly useful resource. Feel free to make additions and corrections and make further copies and pass on...
The text above is anti-copyright. Christopher Robin. England, 1994.