North American Man/Boy Love Association
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The North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) is a U.S.-based group that calls for the elimination of age-based restrictions on sexual behavior. It labels itself a "support group for intergenerational relationships," and has adopted "sexual freedom for all" as its slogan. NAMBLA's primary interest, as it indicates on its website, is to "support the rights of youth as well as adults to choose the partners with whom they wish to share and enjoy their bodies." Sympathizers and supporters contend that the group endorses a comprehensive youth rights platform of which sexual freedom is only a small portion. At its peak, NAMBLA boasted hundreds of members, as well as famous supporters like Gore Vidal and Allen Ginsberg. However, decades of public outrage has all but dissolved the group. Its national headquarters now consists of little more than a private mail box service in Tenderloin, San Francisco. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Man-Boy_Love_Association [Mar 2005]North American Man/Boy Love Association
As far as Ginsberg's pro-NAMBLA stand goes, this is one of the things I most admire him for. I have repeatedly protested the lynch-mob hysteria that dogs the issue of man-boy love. In "Sexual Personae," I argued that male pedophilia is intricately intertwined with the cardinal moments of Western civilization. Donatello's historically pivotal bronze sculpture, "David" (1430), was my main exhibit -- a languidly flirtatious work that would get the artist arrested for kiddie porn these days. In "Vamps & Tramps," I said that Western moralism and hypocrisy have driven the matter underground and overseas, where impoverished Third World boys now supply the sex trade. --http://www.salonmagazine.com/april97/columnists/paglia970415.htmlPedophilia [...]
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