https://www.newgon.net/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Citizen+2416&feedformat=atomNewgonWiki - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T09:14:53ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.41.0https://www.newgon.net/wiki/index.php?title=Boston-Boise_affair&diff=2758Boston-Boise affair2008-12-16T04:07:39Z<p>Citizen 2416: New page: right The '''Boston/Boise Affair''' was a pivotal chain of events in the history of the struggle for sexual rights. ==Arrests== On December 8, 1977, Gar...</p>
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The '''Boston/Boise Affair''' was a pivotal chain of events in the history of the struggle for sexual rights.<br />
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==Arrests==<br />
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On December 8, 1977, Garrett Byrne, district attorney (DA) from Suffolk County, which includes all of Boston and three smaller surrounding communities in Massachusetts, called a press conference to announce the indictment of 24 men on multiple charges of statutory rape involving [[boy|boys]] ages eight to thirteen. He said the men had allegedly lured the boys with marijuana, money, and games, and then raped and photographed the victims. He also claimed the men were part of a [[sex ring]] that was just the "tip of the iceberg" and that there would be more indictments as the investigation progressed. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3491/is_/ai_n28983901]<br />
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The extensive media coverage never questioned the accused men's guilt or Garrett Byrne's assertions, but instead vilified the defendants and published their pictures, names, and addresses despite the constitutional presumption of innocence. The 24 men indicted by Garrett Byrne came from all walks of life, from a bus driver to the headmaster of a prestigious prep school. To say that their lives were shattered by the indictments would be an understatement. Most lost their jobs, many lost their families, and all lost their reputations from the media coverage.<br />
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Yet as the cases unfolded it became clear that many of the facts and accusations were fabricated. Most of the men didn't know each other. There was no sex ring. The vast majority of the accused men had had sex with one of two fifteen-year-old hustlers from Revere, Massachusetts, sometimes in the apartment of a man named Richard Peluso. Peluso had been having sex with local boys in Revere for fifteen years and was arrested on child molestation charges six months before the sex ring indictments. None of the boys involved was under thirteen.<br />
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John Mitzel, author of the definitive work on these events, ''The Boston Sex Scandal'', explains that the "sex ring" allegations came about as a result of Peluso's arrest: "Photos seized in Peluso's apartment were used to identify 64 local youths. All were collared by cops and forced to spit out names. As it turned out, only thirteen agreed to cooperate, mostly under pressure by police, priests, and psychiatrists." The testimony of those thirteen boys led to the 24 indictments.<br />
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The arrests were widely seen as part of the DA's strategy for re-election to an eighth term. Byrne had a history of using the investigative powers of the DA's office to "uncover" sensational vice "rings" of one sort or another as election time approached, using the hysteria to keep his name in print and his image as a public protector and crusader against vice intact, and no one had ever dared to defend those he targeted.<br />
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==Boston/Boise Committee==<br />
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[[Image:BostonBoise2.jpg|thumb|right]]<br />
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But this time there was a surprise. On December 9, 1977, members of the radical Fag Rag collective formed the Boston/Boise Committee (B/BC) to defend the rights of the accused men as well as the boys. Boise was a reference to a similar witch hunt that had occurred in Boise, Idaho in 1955, when hundreds of gay men, including many prominent citizens, were arrested for sex crimes with teenagers, about which John Gerassi wrote in ''The Boys of Boise''.<br />
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In addition to the sensational and biased media coverage, the B/BC was concerned about a special "hotline" set up by the district attorney's office for citizens to call in anonymous tips about men who had sex with boys under sixteen. The Hotline moved the scandal into the realm of a witch hunt.<br />
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Seventy-five people were present at the offices of Gay Community News a few days after the arrests for an emergency meeting called by the B/BC. An assistant district attorney, Thomas Dwyer, agreed to meet with three members of the B/BC to discuss the group's demands, including the resignation of Garrett Byrne and an end to the Hotline. But the DA refused both, so on December 15, 1977, about thirty people demonstrated in City Hall Plaza and then marched directly to the DA's office and confronted Assistant DA Dwyer, but once again Byrne refused to end the hotline. Finally, the B/BC took the matter to court. Knowing the court would have restrained them, the DA's office announced they had voluntarily discontinued the Hotline, making the case moot. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3491/is_2_10/ai_n28983901/pg_2]<br />
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==Conclusion==<br />
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None of the defendants in the case went to jail. Garrett Byrne was defeated in 1978 by an assistant district attorney named Newman Flanagan. Byrne had assumed that most of the defendants would accept a plea to avoid negative publicity and jail, but to his surprise the vast majority wanted a trial, and all those trials would stress the resources of the county. Only one case actually went to trial: Dr. Donald Allen was charged with four counts of fellating a fifteen-year-old male hustler. Although he was ultimately convicted, the judge sentenced him to just five years probation - a signal to the other defendants, most of whom settled with a plea bargain and received light probation. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3491/is_2_10/ai_n28983901/pg_5]<br />
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Although many wanted the Boston sex scandal to quietly disappear, it is not without legacies. While conducting legal research on age of consent laws, a subcommittee of the B/BC sponsored what turned out to be the first meeting of NAMBLA on December 2, 1978. The sex scandal also exposed the division within the gay community. Those seeking "acceptability" were opposed to any activities that might seem to condone sex between adults and minors.<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[NAMBLA]]<br />
*[[Pederasty]]<br />
*[[Homosexuality]]<br />
*[[Ephebophilia]]<br />
*[[Pedophilia]]<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3491/is_/ai_n28983901 The Boston/Boise Affair, 1977-78, by Art Cohen]<br />
*[http://www.lib.neu.edu/archives/voices/gl_sexual2.htm We Raise Our Voices - Sexual Freedom & Liberation]<br />
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[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Gay]][[Category:Prostitution]][[Category:Hysteria]][[Category:TV & Media]][[Category:Law/Crime]][[Category:Law/Crime: American]][[Category:History & Events: American]][[Category:History & Events: 1970s]]</div>Citizen 2416https://www.newgon.net/wiki/index.php?title=File:BostonBoise2.jpg&diff=2757File:BostonBoise2.jpg2008-12-16T03:34:27Z<p>Citizen 2416: Boston/Boise Committe flyer</p>
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<div>Boston/Boise Committe flyer</div>Citizen 2416https://www.newgon.net/wiki/index.php?title=File:BostonBoise1.jpg&diff=2756File:BostonBoise1.jpg2008-12-16T03:33:13Z<p>Citizen 2416: Boston/Boise Committee flyer</p>
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<div>Boston/Boise Committee flyer</div>Citizen 2416https://www.newgon.net/wiki/index.php?title=Danish_Pedophile_Association&diff=2192Danish Pedophile Association2008-10-26T01:23:58Z<p>Citizen 2416: added new e-mail, reformatted snail-mail address</p>
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<div>Formerly a Danish organisation for [[activism]] and support for [[pedophile]]s, the name now merely lives on as a website.<br />
<br />
The website is still a source of information or articles related to [[pedophilia]], and is worth a look. Though the forum is no longer active, and much of what made DanPedo what it was has gone forever.<br />
<br />
==The Demise of DPA==<br />
<br />
(18th of April 2004)<br />
<br />
As most people will know, a press release was issued on the 21st of March 2004, stating that the members of the Danish Pedophile Association had decided to close the association. The shutdown of the association and its website followed several weeks of intense debate among the active members of the association on whether this drastic step would be the best solution considering the massive, incorrect and unjustified attacks against the DPA lately. A group of active members of the former association disagree on political grounds and for principal reasons with the decision to close the DPA. And that is why we have decided to open this new website.<br />
<br />
Politically we consider the shutting down of the website to have been a mistake while the public prosecutor is conducting an investigation of the association. This could be, and already has been seen as, an attempt to hide the truth about the contents of the website. However, as we have nothing to hide we have decided, so far temporarily, to open this website with the contents from the DPA's website the way it was at the time of its closing. Only contents regarding the organizational affairs of the now abolished association have been removed. We confidently anticipate the results of the public prosecutor's investigation.<br />
<br />
For principal reasons we object to the closing of the website, because we refuse to be subdued by unjust pressure from anti-democratic journalists, politicians and not least rabid groups in Denmark and abroad, who (contrary to us) have threatened to use illegal means or have already done so (the website of the DPA has been subject to attacks from hackers several times, and the association Stop Pædofili Nu ("Stop pedophilia Now") has threatened to steal and publish the DPA's membership list).<br />
<br />
There are competent professionals in society who share our opinion that there is a need for a more varied debate as regards pedophilia. We want to be able to use the same constitutional freedom of expression and democratic rights that befalls all citizens in this country to work politically for this purpose. The demise of the association and website is tantamount to giving into terrorism: If only the (unjust) pressure is strong enough, if only the (unfounded) accusations and lies are many enough, if only the threats are serious enough, then we will all abandon our civil liberties, close down our legal association and cease our non-violent political struggle for what we think is right. This, in our opinion, is unacceptable, (self-)discriminatory and an expression of disrespect of democracy!<br />
<br />
We would have liked to have had sufficient resources to re-establish a counselling for pedophiles, but realizing the state of things, we find this impossible for the time being. For this reason the purpose so far is solely the continuation of a website in order to give the public access to more varied views in the debate on pedophilia. No meetings, no members, no statutes, only this informative website on the Internet as a unique source of scientific information regarding pedophilia and related topics. Any remaining references to the DPA on this website are to be considered "historical material" regarding the now abolished association. What will happen later has not been decided yet. The former association's P.O. Box has been closed. The group behind this new website calls itself the "DPA Group 04" (after the year 2004) and can be contacted on this address:<br />
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DPA - Gruppe 04<br />
P.O.Box 51 - DK-6000 Kolding (Denmark)<br />
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Or by e-mail: danpedo|sexualpolitik|se<br />
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==External Links==<br />
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* [http://danpedo.sexualpolitik.se/ Danish Pedophile Association] - The Current Website <br />
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[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Organisations]][[Category:Organisations: Sympathetic]][[Category:Organisations: Web-based]][[Category:Organisations: Defunct]][[Category:Organisations: Danish]][[Category:Websites]][[Category:Websites: Childlove]][[Category:Websites: Sympathetic]]</div>Citizen 2416https://www.newgon.net/wiki/index.php?title=Danish_Pedophile_Association&diff=2187Danish Pedophile Association2008-10-25T22:18:46Z<p>Citizen 2416: From GlWiki</p>
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<div>Formerly a Danish organisation for [[activism]] and support for [[pedophile]]s, the name now merely lives on as a website.<br />
<br />
The website is still a source of information or articles related to [[pedophilia]], and is worth a look. Though the forum is no longer active, and much of what made DanPedo what it was has gone forever.<br />
<br />
==The Demise of DPA==<br />
<br />
(18th of April 2004)<br />
<br />
As most people will know, a press release was issued on the 21st of March 2004, stating that the members of the Danish Pedophile Association had decided to close the association. The shutdown of the association and its website followed several weeks of intense debate among the active members of the association on whether this drastic step would be the best solution considering the massive, incorrect and unjustified attacks against the DPA lately. A group of active members of the former association disagree on political grounds and for principal reasons with the decision to close the DPA. And that is why we have decided to open this new website.<br />
<br />
Politically we consider the shutting down of the website to have been a mistake while the public prosecutor is conducting an investigation of the association. This could be, and already has been seen as, an attempt to hide the truth about the contents of the website. However, as we have nothing to hide we have decided, so far temporarily, to open this website with the contents from the DPA's website the way it was at the time of its closing. Only contents regarding the organizational affairs of the now abolished association have been removed. We confidently anticipate the results of the public prosecutor's investigation.<br />
<br />
For principal reasons we object to the closing of the website, because we refuse to be subdued by unjust pressure from anti-democratic journalists, politicians and not least rabid groups in Denmark and abroad, who (contrary to us) have threatened to use illegal means or have already done so (the website of the DPA has been subject to attacks from hackers several times, and the association Stop Pædofili Nu ("Stop pedophilia Now") has threatened to steal and publish the DPA's membership list).<br />
<br />
There are competent professionals in society who share our opinion that there is a need for a more varied debate as regards pedophilia. We want to be able to use the same constitutional freedom of expression and democratic rights that befalls all citizens in this country to work politically for this purpose. The demise of the association and website is tantamount to giving into terrorism: If only the (unjust) pressure is strong enough, if only the (unfounded) accusations and lies are many enough, if only the threats are serious enough, then we will all abandon our civil liberties, close down our legal association and cease our non-violent political struggle for what we think is right. This, in our opinion, is unacceptable, (self-)discriminatory and an expression of disrespect of democracy!<br />
<br />
We would have liked to have had sufficient resources to re-establish a counselling for pedophiles, but realizing the state of things, we find this impossible for the time being. For this reason the purpose so far is solely the continuation of a website in order to give the public access to more varied views in the debate on pedophilia. No meetings, no members, no statutes, only this informative website on the Internet as a unique source of scientific information regarding pedophilia and related topics. Any remaining references to the DPA on this website are to be considered "historical material" regarding the now abolished association. What will happen later has not been decided yet. The former association's P.O. Box has been closed. The group behind this new website calls itself the "DPA Group 04" (after the year 2004) and can be contacted on this address:<br />
<br />
DPA - Gruppe 04 P.O.Box 51 - DK-6000 Kolding (Denmark)<br />
<br />
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==External Links==<br />
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* [http://danpedo.sexualpolitik.se/ Danish Pedophile Association] - The Current Website <br />
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[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Organisations]][[Category:Organisations: Sympathetic]][[Category:Organisations: Web-based]][[Category:Organisations: Defunct]][[Category:Organisations: Danish]][[Category:Websites]][[Category:Websites: Childlove]][[Category:Websites: Sympathetic]]</div>Citizen 2416https://www.newgon.net/wiki/index.php?title=Charles_Dodgson&diff=2186Charles Dodgson2008-10-25T21:46:48Z<p>Citizen 2416: </p>
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<div>==A Word on Charles Lutwidge Dodgson==<br />
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'''Charles Lutwidge Dodgson''', known by his pen name, '''Lewis Carroll''', was a man of diverse interests - in mathematics, logic, photgraphy, art, theater, religion, medicine, and science. He was happiest in the company of children, more specifically girls, for whom he created puzzles, clever games, and charming letters. As all Carroll admirers know, his book "''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''" (1865), became an immediate success and has since been translated into more than eighty languages. The equally popular sequel "''Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There''", was published in 1872.<br />
<br />
The "Alice" books are but one example of his wide ranging authorship. "The Hunting of the Snark", a classic nonsense epic (1876) and "Euclid and His Modern Rivals", a rare example of humorous work concerning mathematics, still entice and intrigue today's students. "Sylvie and Bruno", published toward the end of his life contains startling ideas including an 1889 description of weightlessness.<br />
<br />
The humor, sparkling wit and genius of this Victorian Englishman have lasted for more than a century. His books are among the most quoted works in the English language, and his influence (with that of his illustrator, Sir John Tenniel) can be seen everywhere, from the world of advertising to that of atomic physics.<br />
<br />
==Charles the Child Photographer==<br />
<br />
In 1856, Dodgson took up the new art form of photography; first under the influence of his uncle Skeffington Lutwidge, and later his Oxford friend Reginald Southey and art photography pioneer Oscar Rejlander.<br />
<br />
Dodgson soon excelled at the art, and it became an expression of his very personal inner philosophy; a belief in the divinity of what he called beauty, by which he seemed to mean a state of moral or aesthetic or physical perfection. He found this divine beauty not simply in the magic of theatre, but in the poetry of words, in a mathematical formula and perhaps supremely, in the human form; in the body-images that moved him.<br />
<br />
When he took up photography he sought with his own representations to combine the ideals of freedom and beauty into the innocence of Eden, where the human body and human contact could be enjoyed without shame. In his middle age, he was to re-form this philosophy into the pursuit of beauty as a state of Grace, a means of retrieving lost innocence. This, along with his lifelong passion for the theatre, was to bring him into confrontation with Victorian morality and his own family's High Church beliefs. As his main biographer Morton Cohen noted... "He rejected outright the Calvinist principle of original sin and replaced it with the notion of inborn divinity."<br />
<br />
His favorite subjects for photography were little [[girl]]s, both with and without clothing. These make up just over fifty percent of his surviving work. His favorite model was Alexandra Kitchin ("Xie"), whom he photographed around fifty times from the age of four. Most of his girl subjects would write their name on the corner of the print in coloured ink. Later, Dodgson either destroyed or returned the nude photographs to the families of the girls he'd photographed. They were long presumed lost, but four nudes have since surfaced. Dodgson's practice of photographing or sketching nude girls has added to speculation that he was a paedophile; see below. There is a clear difference between Dodgson's girls and depictions by other Victorian artists; in almost all of his solo portraits of girls they are depicted unburdened by the heavy weight of Victorian symbolism, and are simply and strongly themselves.<br />
<br />
He also found photography to be a useful entrée into higher social circles. Once he had a studio of his own, he made portraits of notable sitters such as John Everett Millais, Ellen Terry, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Julia Margaret Cameron and Alfred, Lord Tennyson. He also made some landscapes and anatomy studies.<br />
<br />
Dodgson abruptly ceased to photograph in 1880. Over 24 years he had completely mastered the medium, set up his own studio at the top of Tom Quad, and created around 3,000 images. Less than 1000 have survived time and deliberate destruction. He spent several hours each day creating a diary detailing the circumstances surrounding the making of each photograph, but this register was later destroyed.<br />
<br />
With the advent of Modernism tastes changed, and his photography became forgotten from around 1920 until the 1960s. He is now considered one of the very best Victorian photographers, and is certainly the one who has had the most influence on modern art photographers.<br />
<br />
==Charles and Lewis==<br />
<br />
In 1856 he published his first piece of work under the name that would make him famous. A very predictable little romantic poem called "Solitude" appeared in The Train under the authorship of 'Lewis Carroll'. This pseudonym was a play on his real name, Lewis being the anglicised form of Ludovicus, which was the Latin for Lutwidge, and Carroll being an anglicised version of Carolus, the Latin for Charles.<br />
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The ruin of Godstow Nunnery. In the same year, a new Dean, Henry Liddell, arrived at Christ Church, bringing with him a young wife and children, all of whom would figure largely in Dodgson's life over the following years. He became close friends with the mother and the children, particularly the three sisters Ina, Alice and Edith. It seems there became something of a tradition of his taking the girls out on the river for picnics at Godstow or Nuneham.<br />
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It was on one such expedition, in 1862, that Dodgson invented the outline of the story that eventually became his first and largest commercial success — the first Alice book. Having told the story and been begged by Alice Liddell to write it down, Dodgson was evidently struck by its potential to sell well. He took the manuscript — at this stage titled Alice's Adventures Under Ground — to Macmillan the publisher, who liked it immediately. After the possible alternative titles Alice Among the Fairies and Alice's Golden Hour were rejected, the work was finally published as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865 under the Lewis Carroll pen-name Dodgson had first used some nine years earlier.<br />
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With the immediate, phenomenal success of Alice, the story of the author's life becomes effectively divided in two: the continuing story of Dodgson's real life and the evolving myth surrounding "Lewis Carroll." Carroll quickly became a rich and detailed alter ego, a persona as famous and deeply embedded in the popular psyche as the story he told. To him belongs a large part of the image of little girls and strange otherworldliness that we know from the author of Alice.<br />
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==Alice Under Skies==<br />
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As an epilogue to Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll included a nostalgic poem recounting his memories of the boat trips he had taken with the Liddell sisters during which he had first told the fantastic tales he later wrote down in book form. The poem forms an acrostic of Alice’s name and expresses the depth of his feelings for Alice, who haunts him even in his sleep.<br />
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<blockquote><br />
A boat, beneath a sunny sky,<br />
Lingering onward dreamily<br />
In an evening of July -<br />
</blockquote><br />
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<blockquote><br />
Children three that nestle near,<br />
Eager eye and willing ear,<br />
Pleased a simple tale to hear -<br />
</blockquote><br />
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<blockquote><br />
Long has paled that sunny sky:<br />
Echoes fade and memories die:<br />
Autumn frosts have slain July.<br />
</blockquote><br />
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<blockquote><br />
Still she haunts me, phantomwise,<br />
Alice moving under skies<br />
Never seen by waking eyes.<br />
</blockquote><br />
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<blockquote><br />
Children yet, the tale to hear,<br />
Eager eye and willing ear,<br />
Lovingly shall nestle near.<br />
</blockquote><br />
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<blockquote><br />
In Wonderland they lie,<br />
Dreaming as the days go by,<br />
Dreaming as the summers die:<br />
</blockquote><br />
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<blockquote><br />
Ever drifting down the stream -<br />
Lingering in the golden gleam -<br />
Life, what is it but a dream?<br />
</blockquote><br />
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- Lewis Carroll, 1871<br />
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==Works (Online)==<br />
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* [http://wikisource.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland Alice's Adventures in Wonderland] (http://wikisource.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland)<br />
* [http://wikisource.org/wiki/Through_the_Looking_Glass_%28And_What_Alice_Found_There%29 Through the Looking Glass And What Alice Found There] (http://wikisource.org/wiki/Through_the_Looking_Glass_%28And_What_Alice_Found_There%29) <br />
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==External Links==<br />
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* [http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol18/issue06/arts.lcarroll.html The Man Who Loved Little Girls] (http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol18/issue06/arts.lcarroll.html)<br />
* [http://wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Lewis_Carroll WikiSource Lewis_Carroll Page] (http://wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Lewis_Carroll)<br />
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[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Art]][[Category:People]][[Category:People: British]][[Category:People: Deceased]][[Category:People: Academics]][[Category:People: Popular Authors]][[Category:History & Events]][[Category:History & Events: British]][[Category:History & Events: 19th C]]</div>Citizen 2416https://www.newgon.net/wiki/index.php?title=Charles_Dodgson&diff=2185Charles Dodgson2008-10-25T21:45:12Z<p>Citizen 2416: from girlwiki</p>
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<div>==A Word on Charles Lutwidge Dodgson==<br />
<br />
'''Charles Lutwidge Dodgson''', known by his pen name, '''Lewis Carroll''', was a man of diverse interests - in mathematics, logic, photgraphy, art, theater, religion, medicine, and science. He was happiest in the company of children, more specifically girls, for whom he created puzzles, clever games, and charming letters. As all Carroll admirers know, his book "''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''" (1865), became an immediate success and has since been translated into more than eighty languages. The equally popular sequel "''Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There''", was published in 1872.<br />
<br />
The "Alice" books are but one example of his wide ranging authorship. "The Hunting of the Snark", a classic nonsense epic (1876) and "Euclid and His Modern Rivals", a rare example of humorous work concerning mathematics, still entice and intrigue today's students. "Sylvie and Bruno", published toward the end of his life contains startling ideas including an 1889 description of weightlessness.<br />
<br />
The humor, sparkling wit and genius of this Victorian Englishman have lasted for more than a century. His books are among the most quoted works in the English language, and his influence (with that of his illustrator, Sir John Tenniel) can be seen everywhere, from the world of advertising to that of atomic physics.<br />
<br />
==Charles the Child Photographer==<br />
<br />
In 1856, Dodgson took up the new art form of photography; first under the influence of his uncle Skeffington Lutwidge, and later his Oxford friend Reginald Southey and art photography pioneer Oscar Rejlander.<br />
<br />
Dodgson soon excelled at the art, and it became an expression of his very personal inner philosophy; a belief in the divinity of what he called beauty, by which he seemed to mean a state of moral or aesthetic or physical perfection. He found this divine beauty not simply in the magic of theatre, but in the poetry of words, in a mathematical formula and perhaps supremely, in the human form; in the body-images that moved him.<br />
<br />
When he took up photography he sought with his own representations to combine the ideals of freedom and beauty into the innocence of Eden, where the human body and human contact could be enjoyed without shame. In his middle age, he was to re-form this philosophy into the pursuit of beauty as a state of Grace, a means of retrieving lost innocence. This, along with his lifelong passion for the theatre, was to bring him into confrontation with Victorian morality and his own family's High Church beliefs. As his main biographer Morton Cohen noted... "He rejected outright the Calvinist principle of original sin and replaced it with the notion of inborn divinity."<br />
<br />
His favorite subjects for photography were little [[girl]]s, both with and without clothing. These make up just over fifty percent of his surviving work. His favorite model was Alexandra Kitchin ("Xie"), whom he photographed around fifty times from the age of four. Most of his girl subjects would write their name on the corner of the print in coloured ink. Later, Dodgson either destroyed or returned the nude photographs to the families of the girls he'd photographed. They were long presumed lost, but four nudes have since surfaced. Dodgson's practice of photographing or sketching nude girls has added to speculation that he was a paedophile; see below. There is a clear difference between Dodgson's girls and depictions by other Victorian artists; in almost all of his solo portraits of girls they are depicted unburdened by the heavy weight of Victorian symbolism, and are simply and strongly themselves.<br />
<br />
He also found photography to be a useful entrée into higher social circles. Once he had a studio of his own, he made portraits of notable sitters such as John Everett Millais, Ellen Terry, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Julia Margaret Cameron and Alfred, Lord Tennyson. He also made some landscapes and anatomy studies.<br />
<br />
Dodgson abruptly ceased to photograph in 1880. Over 24 years he had completely mastered the medium, set up his own studio at the top of Tom Quad, and created around 3,000 images. Less than 1000 have survived time and deliberate destruction. He spent several hours each day creating a diary detailing the circumstances surrounding the making of each photograph, but this register was later destroyed.<br />
<br />
With the advent of Modernism tastes changed, and his photography became forgotten from around 1920 until the 1960s. He is now considered one of the very best Victorian photographers, and is certainly the one who has had the most influence on modern art photographers.<br />
<br />
==Charles and Lewis==<br />
<br />
In 1856 he published his first piece of work under the name that would make him famous. A very predictable little romantic poem called "Solitude" appeared in The Train under the authorship of 'Lewis Carroll'. This pseudonym was a play on his real name, Lewis being the anglicised form of Ludovicus, which was the Latin for Lutwidge, and Carroll being an anglicised version of Carolus, the Latin for Charles.<br />
<br />
The ruin of Godstow Nunnery. In the same year, a new Dean, Henry Liddell, arrived at Christ Church, bringing with him a young wife and children, all of whom would figure largely in Dodgson's life over the following years. He became close friends with the mother and the children, particularly the three sisters Ina, Alice and Edith. It seems there became something of a tradition of his taking the girls out on the river for picnics at Godstow or Nuneham.<br />
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It was on one such expedition, in 1862, that Dodgson invented the outline of the story that eventually became his first and largest commercial success — the first Alice book. Having told the story and been begged by Alice Liddell to write it down, Dodgson was evidently struck by its potential to sell well. He took the manuscript — at this stage titled Alice's Adventures Under Ground — to Macmillan the publisher, who liked it immediately. After the possible alternative titles Alice Among the Fairies and Alice's Golden Hour were rejected, the work was finally published as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865 under the Lewis Carroll pen-name Dodgson had first used some nine years earlier.<br />
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With the immediate, phenomenal success of Alice, the story of the author's life becomes effectively divided in two: the continuing story of Dodgson's real life and the evolving myth surrounding "Lewis Carroll." Carroll quickly became a rich and detailed alter ego, a persona as famous and deeply embedded in the popular psyche as the story he told. To him belongs a large part of the image of little girls and strange otherworldliness that we know from the author of Alice.<br />
<br />
==Alice Under Skies==<br />
<br />
As an epilogue to Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll included a nostalgic poem recounting his memories of the boat trips he had taken with the Liddell sisters during which he had first told the fantastic tales he later wrote down in book form. The poem forms an acrostic of Alice’s name and expresses the depth of his feelings for Alice, who haunts him even in his sleep.<br />
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<blockquote><br />
A boat, beneath a sunny sky,<br />
Lingering onward dreamily<br />
In an evening of July -<br />
</blockquote><br />
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<blockquote><br />
Children three that nestle near,<br />
Eager eye and willing ear,<br />
Pleased a simple tale to hear -<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
<blockquote><br />
Long has paled that sunny sky:<br />
Echoes fade and memories die:<br />
Autumn frosts have slain July.<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
<blockquote><br />
Still she haunts me, phantomwise,<br />
Alice moving under skies<br />
Never seen by waking eyes.<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
<blockquote><br />
Children yet, the tale to hear,<br />
Eager eye and willing ear,<br />
Lovingly shall nestle near.<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
In Wonderland they lie,<br />
Dreaming as the days go by,<br />
Dreaming as the summers die:<br />
</blockquote><br />
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<br />
Ever drifting down the stream -<br />
Lingering in the golden gleam -<br />
Life, what is it but a dream?<br />
</blockquote><br />
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- Lewis Carroll, 1871<br />
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==Works (Online)==<br />
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* [http://wikisource.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland Alice's Adventures in Wonderland] (http://wikisource.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland)<br />
* [http://wikisource.org/wiki/Through_the_Looking_Glass_%28And_What_Alice_Found_There%29 Through the Looking Glass And What Alice Found There] (http://wikisource.org/wiki/Through_the_Looking_Glass_%28And_What_Alice_Found_There%29) <br />
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==External Links==<br />
<br />
* [http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol18/issue06/arts.lcarroll.html The Man Who Loved Little Girls] (http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol18/issue06/arts.lcarroll.html)<br />
* [http://wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Lewis_Carroll WikiSource Lewis_Carroll Page] (http://wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Lewis_Carroll)<br />
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[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Art]][[Category:People]][[Category:People: British]][[Category:People: Deceased]][[Category:People: Academics]][[Category:People: Popular Authors]][[Category:History & Events]][[Category:History & Events: British]][[Category:History & Events: 19th C]]</div>Citizen 2416https://www.newgon.net/wiki/index.php?title=Pedophobia&diff=2184Pedophobia2008-10-25T20:59:20Z<p>Citizen 2416: from girlwiki</p>
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<div>The dictionary says that '''Pedophobia''' refers to an abnormal and persistent fear of children, however in the context of [[Pedophilia]], "Pedophobia" is taken to mean "abnormal irrational fear of all things related to pedophilia", and is clearly seen in society at large today.<br />
<br />
The infamous stereotype of a pedophile, with his trenchcoat, sweets in pockets, lurking around bushes in parks or in a car waiting to lure some child off to kidnap, rape and then murder only goes to show that common sense gets thrown out of the window whenever you hear the word "Pedophile".<br />
<br />
''Brass Eye 2001:Pedophilia Special'' was a spoof-documentary that aired in the UK on Channel 4 (and is now available on DVD) that exposed the Pedophobic undercurrents of society and media today. In fact, the program had to be defended itself from the pedophobic attacks that ensued - only proving even more the point it was created to make.<br />
<br />
Ironically, some childlovers have argued that those who are the most fervent believers in the anti-pedophile crusade actually are pedophobic in a literal sense - they literally hate children. These statements have met with heavy opposition, from both sides.<br />
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[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Child Advocacy]][[Category:Anti-Pedophile culture]][[Category:Hysteria]][[Category:Terminology]][[Category:Terminology: Childlove]]</div>Citizen 2416https://www.newgon.net/wiki/index.php?title=Intergenerational_relationship&diff=2183Intergenerational relationship2008-10-25T20:40:35Z<p>Citizen 2416: too many brackets</p>
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<div>There are two main types of '''Intergenerational Relationship''':<br />
<br />
==Type One==<br />
<br />
A generation loosely defined is the period of time it would take for a new-born child to reach the age of legal majority, or, depending on the culture - the age at which they can legally procreate. A "generation" therefore is usually defined as roughly 20 years.<br />
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An intergenerational relationship is a relationship that spans this gap, for instance, an 18yo man having a relationship with a 40yo woman. It can be considered taboo, although there are no laws against such a relationship.<br />
<br />
==Type Two==<br />
<br />
The other type is not really related to the term "generation" but rather the divide of the legal [[age of consent]]. An "intergenerational relationship" in this sense therefore could be defined as any adult who has an intimate ongoing relationship with a child. The adult would only need to be 5 or so years older than the child for this definition to be correct.<br />
<br />
This kind of relationship is highly controversial and illegal in most western countries. This is mainly due to the concept that before the age of consent has been reached, a "child" does not have sufficient capacity to make decisions that adults in the same kind of intimate relationship would, and therefore this leaves the balance of power clearly in the hands of the older adult.<br />
<br />
It must be stated however that is should never be used to judge a personal choice such as a relationship. Each person's level of maturity is different, and therefore also the amount of responsibility they can handle, this is without going into the concept that the older adult may not actually abuse this power - as the main argument against Intergenerational Relationships seems to miss this fact - namely, if an adult has the control, it does not follow that they will misuse this to their own advantage - and common sense would dictate if they truly did love the other person (as would be a pre-requisite of such a relationship) - then most likely they would use the imbalance to the [[minor]]'s advantage.<br />
<br />
However, due to the [[:Category:Hysteria|culture of fear]] and [[Pedophobia]], intergenerational relationships of the second type are still "anathema" and both parties are put at risk of both [[law]] and [[vigilantism|vigilante]] justice simply due to one party's age.<br />
<br />
<br />
==See also==<br />
<br />
* [[Age of Consent]]<br />
<br />
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[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Youth]][[Category:Terminology]][[Category:Terminology: Childlove]][[Category:Law/Crime]][[Category:Law/Crime: International]]</div>Citizen 2416https://www.newgon.net/wiki/index.php?title=Intergenerational_relationship&diff=2182Intergenerational relationship2008-10-25T20:39:02Z<p>Citizen 2416: from girlwiki</p>
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<div>There are two main types of '''Intergenerational Relationship''':<br />
<br />
==Type One==<br />
<br />
A generation loosely defined is the period of time it would take for a new-born child to reach the age of legal majority, or, depending on the culture - the age at which they can legally procreate. A "generation" therefore is usually defined as roughly 20 years.<br />
<br />
An intergenerational relationship is a relationship that spans this gap, for instance, an 18yo man having a relationship with a 40yo woman. It can be considered taboo, although there are no laws against such a relationship.<br />
<br />
==Type Two==<br />
<br />
The other type is not really related to the term "generation" but rather the divide of the legal [[age of consent]]. An "intergenerational relationship" in this sense therefore could be defined as any adult who has an intimate ongoing relationship with a child. The adult would only need to be 5 or so years older than the child for this definition to be correct.<br />
<br />
This kind of relationship is highly controversial and illegal in most western countries. This is mainly due to the concept that before the age of consent has been reached, a "child" does not have sufficient capacity to make decisions that adults in the same kind of intimate relationship would, and therefore this leaves the balance of power clearly in the hands of the older adult.<br />
<br />
It must be stated however that is should never be used to judge a personal choice such as a relationship. Each person's level of maturity is different, and therefore also the amount of responsibility they can handle, this is without going into the concept that the older adult may not actually abuse this power - as the main argument against Intergenerational Relationships seems to miss this fact - namely, if an adult has the control, it does not follow that they will misuse this to their own advantage - and common sense would dictate if they truly did love the other person (as would be a pre-requisite of such a relationship) - then most likely they would use the imbalance to the [[minor]]'s advantage.<br />
<br />
However, due to the [[:Category:Hysteria|culture of fear]] and [[Pedophobia]], intergenerational relationships of the second type are still "anathema" and both parties are put at risk of both [[law]] and [[vigilantism|vigilante]] justice simply due to one party's age.<br />
<br />
<br />
==See also==<br />
<br />
* [[Age of Consent]]<br />
<br />
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[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]]]][[Category:Youth]][[Category:Terminology]][[Category:Terminology: Childlove]][[Category:Law/Crime]][[Category:Law/Crime: International]]</div>Citizen 2416https://www.newgon.net/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Citizen_2416&diff=2181User talk:Citizen 24162008-10-25T20:02:47Z<p>Citizen 2416: </p>
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<div>==Thanks!==<br />
<br />
I'll take a look over your contributions and see if anything needs adding to. Reporting back later. Admin. [[User:Rez|Rez]] 15:24, 23 October 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:Some examples:<br />
<br />
:[[Childlover]]<br />
<br />
::Great - I just bolded the key term.<br />
<br />
:[[Girllover]]<br />
<br />
::Spot on.<br />
<br />
:[[Pederasty]]<br />
<br />
::Added 3 categories.<br />
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:[[Ephebophilia]]<br />
<br />
::Added 5 categories.<br />
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:[[Young friend]] | [[Adult friend]]<br />
<br />
::Gender-neutralised as ex-BoyWiki<br />
<br />
:Your edits were very useful. One minor note is that when an article is added to a parent category (e.g. Terminology), it should be added to a subcategory (e.g. Terminology: Childlove), so that the user who explores further loses nothing. If it is absolutely necessary, you should consider adding a new category to the list. I also personally believe that we should be using categories liberally but not nonsensically, especially at the start of this project. It helps create the illusion of a larger encyclopedia. [[User:Rez|Rez]] 17:25, 23 October 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Cool ==<br />
<br />
I saw what you were saying about categories, so I started using them more liberally. A few categories have no subcategories, though, and I'm not sure what they should be yet.<br />
<br />
Questions:<br />
<s>Is the article for [[Andreas Embiricos]] too graphic? (It's from BoyWiki.) Here's the more explicit text:<br />
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[removed]</s><br />
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<s>And do you happen to know of any html to wiki converter that works? Something like that could probably save time. I tried one, but it crashed.</s> [Never mind. Those things don't work very well.]<br />
<br />
--[[User:Citizen 2416|Citizen 2416]] 13:27, 25 October 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:As I said below, the answer is probably in limiting our endeavours to topics of explicitly political interest, and not moderating the explicitness of content unless this is absolutely necessary in law.<br />
<br />
:I am not naturally aware of any such converters, but wiki text formatting is quite easy to learn and includes a user friendly range of buttons in the edit window. I can probably get the range of buttons extended if you like. [[User:Rez|Rez (The Administrators - anonym)]] 14:36, 25 October 2008 (UTC)<br />
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::http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mediawiki_edit_toolbar I am currently unaware of how to modify the standard range. [[User:Rez|Rez (The Administrators - anonym)]] 14:52, 25 October 2008 (UTC)<br />
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:::http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.js/edit.js is a custom solution. [[User:Rez|Rez (The Administrators - anonym)]] 15:03, 25 October 2008 (UTC)<br />
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==BoyWiki==<br />
<br />
Thanks for digging out some more BoyWiki articles. I'm not sure whether boymodeling articles suit our ethos, though. Is there such a large body of work in that area, that it can make up a significant portal on this site? I am aware that BoyWiki intends to reopen when they have the volunteers they need, so these articles are probably not lost.<br />
<br />
I do know that there are Girl articles that could balance the emphasis, so we have no problem with gender-neutrality in that sense. I just think that we should limit ourselves to topics of political relevance. [[User:Rez|Rez (The Administrators - anonym)]] 14:31, 25 October 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
==Sorry==<br />
<br />
I didn't realize this wiki had a different focus from BoyWiki or that BoyWiki was coming back.<br />
<br />
The [[Andreas Embiricos]] article is not about modelling, although I suppose its political value is not great. If you mean the Lyric stuff, it seemed relevant as "the first child pornography ring" and with the connection to the former FBI director, but I'm working on other things now. If you're uncomfortable with something, delete it.<br />
<br />
And I've been trying to find the "GirlWiki," but I've had no luck.<br />
<br />
:I have yet to look at all of the articles you created and the overall context. If they have the relevance you mention, they should be kept.<br />
<br />
:http://newgon.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=414 lins to childlover.org (GirlWiki). But since the thread was written, we have hosted our own copy of PRD, which will be useful in providing extra information, especially on research. [[User:Rez|Rez (The Administrators - anonym)]] 15:07, 25 October 2008 (UTC)</div>Citizen 2416https://www.newgon.net/wiki/index.php?title=Andreas_Embiricos&diff=2180Andreas Embiricos2008-10-25T20:00:07Z<p>Citizen 2416: Removed questionable text</p>
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<div>'''Andreas Embiricos''' (1901-1975) was a Greek writer, psychoanalyst and photographer.<br />
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Embiricos was born in Raila, Romania by Greek parents and raised in Athens. After taking some time in the business ventures of his family in ship broking, he moved to Paris where he lived between 1926 and 1931 and met with Andre Breton and his surrealist circle. He published several collections of surrealist writings (poetry and prose): ''Ypsikaminos'' ("Blast-Furnace" 1935), ''Endochora'' ("Hinterland" 1945), ''Grapta, e Prosopike mythologia'' ("Writings, or Personal Mythology" 1960) and ''Argo, e plous aerostatou'' ("Argo, or the Voyage of a Balloon" 1964-65). Most of his works, however, including his sex-themed eight-volume novel ''O Megas Anatolikos'' ("The Great Eastern") appeared posthumously.<br />
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In parallel with his career as a writer, he began practicing in Greece the profession of psychoanalyst after he was accredited by the French Psychoanalytic Association, continuously until 1951. Embiricos also took an interest in photography and made his first retrospective exhibition in 1965 in Athens.<br />
<br />
In 2001 the Greek Ministry of Culture to commemorate 100 years from Embiricos birth, declared that year as "The Year of Andreas Embiricos" and sponsored a number of events in Greece and abroad including public lectures about ''The Great Eastern'' and the publication of a collection of photographs titled ''Fotofraktes'' ("Shutter" 2001).<br />
<br />
==The Great Eastern==<br />
<br />
''The Great Eastern'' is Embiricos ''magnum opus'' novel, written in the 1940s and developed during the next decades as he read parts of the manuscripts to enthusiastic friends.<br />
<br />
The novel accounts for the sexual goings in "The Great Eastern", a steamship leaving England for the New World. In ''The Great Eastern'' all Embiricos' fantasies, doctrines and visions are developed under a formally polished style and archaic language. Full of literary references, his transgressive writting, which could put Marquis de Sade to shame, develops in several episodes of multi-level narrative which features all the sexual taboos of his era including [[homosexuality]], interacial sex, bestiality, sado-masochism and all four variants (man/boy, man/girl, woman/boy and woman/girl) of [[pedophilia]].<br />
<br />
Embiricos must have based the characters of ''The Great Eastern'' on people he met during in his experience as a psychoanalyst but also, as his correspondence reveals, in his study of sexual histories sexological books. From his research, Embiricos knew well what went on in the sexual underground across Europe and the episodes in ''Great Eastern'' even sometimes parodically hilarious or exaggerated, do not sound completely unbelievable.<br />
<br />
Embiricos himself wrote one a note that he would like to see ''The Great Eastern'' published after his death uncensored. His only compromise would be the use of a pseudonym to avoid implications to his family. Nevertheless, his family which owns his estate decided to publish it using his real name. The work, based on the unfinished manuscripts which Embricos continuously re-edited to his death, came out in eight volumes by Agra Publications in Athens between 1990 and 1992 and surprisingly, given its content, there was little, if any, controversy. Surely Greece's literary community unanimous endorsment and praise of the work as great fiction must have helped.<br />
<br />
Even though the eight volume work is primarily preoccupied with heterosexual practices and [[girllove|man/girl pedophilia]], the book is of particular interest of [[boylovers]] in Greece, since there are several instances of sex between men and [[boy]]s. Consider the following extracts, originally written by Embricos in English (which does not do justice to the stylish Greek language used in most of the book) about a woman secretly reading the narrative of a diary:<br />
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<blockquote>"The well-known novelist (he was a man of about 60), who has just read a letter delivered by a good-looking messenger boy of about 13 years old, was asking the boy his name and how old he was and telling him he thought he looked very handsome." (Vol. 3, Part 6, Chapter 65, pp. 71-72)</blockquote><br />
<br />
The man makes a sexual advance offering to pay the boy an extra half a crown. The boy reluctantly accepts the offer and...<br />
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==Photography==<br />
<br />
As noted, Embiricos was also a prolific photographer. His early work includes surrealistic images of masks and other objects while he later concentrated in portaiture and street photography. An important and much acclaimed aspect of his photographic work regards his candid and often erotic pictures of little [[girl]]s. His contemporaries, like Nobelist poet Odysseas Elytis wrote favorable of this fascination of his while his photography of little girls has often been compared to that of [[Lewis Caroll]] (of the ''Alice'' fame). Embriricos also took many pictures of boys, some of them in the nude, that, nevertheless, were never erotic (an example of which can be found at ''Fotofraktes'' collection).<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
<br />
[http://www.embiricos2001.gr Official "Embiricos 2001" website] by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and the National Book Centre of Greece.<br />
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[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:People]][[Category:People: Greek]][[Category:People: Popular Authors]][[Category:People: Artists and Poets]][[Category:People: Deceased]][[Category:History & Events]][[Category:History & Events: 1990s]]</div>Citizen 2416https://www.newgon.net/wiki/index.php?title=Problems_of_Research_into_Adult/Child_Sexual_Interaction&diff=2179Problems of Research into Adult/Child Sexual Interaction2008-10-25T16:14:26Z<p>Citizen 2416: New page: Research by Eric Vern L. Bullough and Bonnie Bullough. <blockquote> "ABSTRACT: Although adult child sexual behaviors have occurred in many different cultures throughout history, there has...</p>
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<div>Research by Eric Vern L. Bullough and Bonnie Bullough.<br />
<br />
<blockquote><br />
"ABSTRACT: Although adult child sexual behaviors have occurred in many different cultures throughout history, there has been little serious research on adult/child sexual interactions. Barriers to performing this research include legal restrictions along with the fact that researchers attempting to understand and explain adult/child sexual interaction risk being labeled as pedophiles. Despite this, it is crucial to find ways to do research with persons who resist adopting today's standards and attitudes."<br />
</blockquote><br />
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==External links==<br />
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[http://www.ipt-forensics.com/journal/volume8/j8_2_1.htm Problems of Research into Adult/Child Sexual Interaction] [http://www.ipt-forensics.com/ IPT] Volume 8. 1996.<br />
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[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Censorship]][[Category:Facts of life]][[Category:Youth]][[Category:Research]][[Category:Research: Broader Perspectives]][[Category:Publications & Documents]][[Category:Pubs: Research/Papers]]</div>Citizen 2416https://www.newgon.net/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Citizen_2416&diff=2176User talk:Citizen 24162008-10-25T15:39:21Z<p>Citizen 2416: </p>
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<div>==Thanks!==<br />
<br />
I'll take a look over your contributions and see if anything needs adding to. Reporting back later. Admin. [[User:Rez|Rez]] 15:24, 23 October 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:Some examples:<br />
<br />
:[[Childlover]]<br />
<br />
::Great - I just bolded the key term.<br />
<br />
:[[Girllover]]<br />
<br />
::Spot on.<br />
<br />
:[[Pederasty]]<br />
<br />
::Added 3 categories.<br />
<br />
:[[Ephebophilia]]<br />
<br />
::Added 5 categories.<br />
<br />
:[[Young friend]] | [[Adult friend]]<br />
<br />
::Gender-neutralised as ex-BoyWiki<br />
<br />
:Your edits were very useful. One minor note is that when an article is added to a parent category (e.g. Terminology), it should be added to a subcategory (e.g. Terminology: Childlove), so that the user who explores further loses nothing. If it is absolutely necessary, you should consider adding a new category to the list. I also personally believe that we should be using categories liberally but not nonsensically, especially at the start of this project. It helps create the illusion of a larger encyclopedia. [[User:Rez|Rez]] 17:25, 23 October 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Cool ==<br />
<br />
I saw what you were saying about categories, so I started using them more liberally. A few categories have no subcategories, though, and I'm not sure what they should be yet.<br />
<br />
Questions:<br />
Is the article for [[Andreas Embiricos]] too graphic? (It's from BoyWiki.) Here's the more explicit text:<br />
<br />
<blockquote><blockquote><br />
"Mr. Lingham drewn his gently between his open legs, as he sat there in a comfortable armchair, and unbuttoning without much ado the boy's fly, he took out of the trousers a pretty young prick absolutely white and absolutely hairless, taking care to take out as well the boy's balls which seemed to have the size of two almonds, before one peels off their shells." (Vol. 3, Part 6, Chapter 65, p. 73)</blockquote><br />
...and then he continues with five full pages describing a scene of mutual masturbation and the man performing oral sex to the boy, whom ejaculates three times.</blockquote><br />
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<br />
<s>And do you happen to know of any html to wiki converter that works? Something like that could probably save time. I tried one, but it crashed.</s> [Never mind. Those things don't work very well.]<br />
<br />
--[[User:Citizen 2416|Citizen 2416]] 13:27, 25 October 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:As I said below, the answer is probably in limiting our endeavours to topics of explicitly political interest, and not moderating the explicitness of content unless this is absolutely necessary in law.<br />
<br />
:I am not naturally aware of any such converters, but wiki text formatting is quite easy to learn and includes a user friendly range of buttons in the edit window. I can probably get the range of buttons extended if you like. [[User:Rez|Rez (The Administrators - anonym)]] 14:36, 25 October 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
::http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mediawiki_edit_toolbar I am currently unaware of how to modify the standard range. [[User:Rez|Rez (The Administrators - anonym)]] 14:52, 25 October 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:::http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.js/edit.js is a custom solution. [[User:Rez|Rez (The Administrators - anonym)]] 15:03, 25 October 2008 (UTC)<br />
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==BoyWiki==<br />
<br />
Thanks for digging out some more BoyWiki articles. I'm not sure whether boymodeling articles suit our ethos, though. Is there such a large body of work in that area, that it can make up a significant portal on this site? I am aware that BoyWiki intends to reopen when they have the volunteers they need, so these articles are probably not lost.<br />
<br />
I do know that there are Girl articles that could balance the emphasis, so we have no problem with gender-neutrality in that sense. I just think that we should limit ourselves to topics of political relevance. [[User:Rez|Rez (The Administrators - anonym)]] 14:31, 25 October 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
==Sorry==<br />
<br />
I didn't realize this wiki had a different focus from BoyWiki or that BoyWiki was coming back.<br />
<br />
The [[Andreas Embiricos]] article is not about modelling, although I suppose its political value is not great. If you mean the Lyric stuff, it seemed relevant as "the first child pornography ring" and with the connection to the former FBI director, but I'm working on other things now. If you're uncomfortable with something, delete it.<br />
<br />
And I've been trying to find the "GirlWiki," but I've had no luck.<br />
<br />
:I have yet to look at all of the articles you created and the overall context. If they have the relevance you mention, they should be kept.<br />
<br />
:http://newgon.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=414 lins to childlover.org (GirlWiki). But since the thread was written, we have hosted our own copy of PRD, which will be useful in providing extra information, especially on research. [[User:Rez|Rez (The Administrators - anonym)]] 15:07, 25 October 2008 (UTC)</div>Citizen 2416https://www.newgon.net/wiki/index.php?title=The_Development_of_the_Sexual_Instinct&diff=2171The Development of the Sexual Instinct2008-10-25T15:16:55Z<p>Citizen 2416: typo</p>
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<div>''The Development of the Sexual Instinct'' is a collection of case histories of childhood sexuality included in sex researcher [[Havelock Ellis]]'s six-volume work [[Studies in the Psychology of Sex]].<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
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* [http://newgon.com/CPP/Ellis/ The Development of the Sexual Instinct] on [http://newgon.com Newgon.com]<br />
* [https://www.boychat.org/messages/968660.htm Havelock Ellis's case histories of child sexuality] by Cerius, on [[BoyChat]].<br />
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[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Facts of life]][[Category:Gay]][[Category:Sociological Theory]][[Category:Youth]][[Category:Research]][[Category:Research: Broader Perspectives]][[Category:History & Events]][Category:History & Events: 1920s]][[Category:Publications & Documents]][[Category:Pubs: Research/Papers]]</div>Citizen 2416https://www.newgon.net/wiki/index.php?title=The_Development_of_the_Sexual_Instinct&diff=2170The Development of the Sexual Instinct2008-10-25T15:16:01Z<p>Citizen 2416: </p>
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<div>''The Development of the Sexual Instinct''' is a collection of case histories of childhood sexuality included in sex researcher [[Havelock Ellis]]'s six-volume work [[Studies in the Psychology of Sex]].<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
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* [http://newgon.com/CPP/Ellis/ The Development of the Sexual Instinct] on [http://newgon.com Newgon.com]<br />
* [https://www.boychat.org/messages/968660.htm Havelock Ellis's case histories of child sexuality] by Cerius, on [[BoyChat]].<br />
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[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Facts of life]][[Category:Gay]][[Category:Sociological Theory]][[Category:Youth]][[Category:Research]][[Category:Research: Broader Perspectives]][[Category:History & Events]][Category:History & Events: 1920s]][[Category:Publications & Documents]][[Category:Pubs: Research/Papers]]</div>Citizen 2416https://www.newgon.net/wiki/index.php?title=The_Development_of_the_Sexual_Instinct&diff=2168The Development of the Sexual Instinct2008-10-25T15:13:27Z<p>Citizen 2416: added categories</p>
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'''The Development of the Sexual Instinct''' is a collection of case histories of childhood sexuality included in sex researcher [[Havelock Ellis]]'s six-volume work [[Studies in the Psychology of Sex]].<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
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* [http://newgon.com/CPP/Ellis/ The Development of the Sexual Instinct] on [http://newgon.com Newgon.com]<br />
* [https://www.boychat.org/messages/968660.htm Havelock Ellis's case histories of child sexuality] by Cerius, on [[BoyChat]].<br />
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[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Facts of life]][[Category:Gay]][[Category:Sociological Theory]][[Category:Youth]][[Category:Research]][[Category:Research: Broader Perspectives]][[Category:History & Events]][Category:History & Events: 1920s]][[Category:Publications & Documents]][[Category:Pubs: Research/Papers]]</div>Citizen 2416https://www.newgon.net/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Citizen_2416&diff=2165User talk:Citizen 24162008-10-25T14:54:22Z<p>Citizen 2416: </p>
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<div>==Thanks!==<br />
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I'll take a look over your contributions and see if anything needs adding to. Reporting back later. Admin. [[User:Rez|Rez]] 15:24, 23 October 2008 (UTC)<br />
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:Some examples:<br />
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:[[Childlover]]<br />
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::Great - I just bolded the key term.<br />
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:[[Girllover]]<br />
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::Spot on.<br />
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:[[Pederasty]]<br />
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::Added 3 categories.<br />
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:[[Ephebophilia]]<br />
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::Added 5 categories.<br />
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:[[Young friend]] | [[Adult friend]]<br />
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::Gender-neutralised as ex-BoyWiki<br />
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:Your edits were very useful. One minor note is that when an article is added to a parent category (e.g. Terminology), it should be added to a subcategory (e.g. Terminology: Childlove), so that the user who explores further loses nothing. If it is absolutely necessary, you should consider adding a new category to the list. I also personally believe that we should be using categories liberally but not nonsensically, especially at the start of this project. It helps create the illusion of a larger encyclopedia. [[User:Rez|Rez]] 17:25, 23 October 2008 (UTC)<br />
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== Cool ==<br />
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I saw what you were saying about categories, so I started using them more liberally. A few categories have no subcategories, though, and I'm not sure what they should be yet.<br />
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Questions:<br />
Is the article for [[Andreas Embiricos]] too graphic? (It's from BoyWiki.) Here's the more explicit text:<br />
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<blockquote><blockquote><br />
"Mr. Lingham drewn his gently between his open legs, as he sat there in a comfortable armchair, and unbuttoning without much ado the boy's fly, he took out of the trousers a pretty young prick absolutely white and absolutely hairless, taking care to take out as well the boy's balls which seemed to have the size of two almonds, before one peels off their shells." (Vol. 3, Part 6, Chapter 65, p. 73)</blockquote><br />
...and then he continues with five full pages describing a scene of mutual masturbation and the man performing oral sex to the boy, whom ejaculates three times.</blockquote><br />
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And do you happen to know of any html to wiki converter that works? Something like that could probably save time. I tried one, but it crashed.<br />
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--[[User:Citizen 2416|Citizen 2416]] 13:27, 25 October 2008 (UTC)<br />
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:As I said below, the answer is probably in limiting our endeavours to topics of explicitly political interest, and not moderating the explicitness of content unless this is absolutely necessary in law.<br />
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:I am not naturally aware of any such converters, but wiki text formatting is quite easy to learn and includes a user friendly range of buttons in the edit window. I can probably get the range of buttons extended if you like. [[User:Rez|Rez (The Administrators - anonym)]] 14:36, 25 October 2008 (UTC)<br />
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::http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mediawiki_edit_toolbar I am currently unaware of how to modify the standard range. [[User:Rez|Rez (The Administrators - anonym)]] 14:52, 25 October 2008 (UTC)<br />
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==BoyWiki==<br />
<br />
Thanks for digging out some more BoyWiki articles. I'm not sure whether boymodeling articles suit our ethos, though. Is there such a large body of work in that area, that it can make up a significant portal on this site? I am aware that BoyWiki intends to reopen when they have the volunteers they need, so these articles are probably not lost.<br />
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I do know that there are Girl articles that could balance the emphasis, so we have no problem with gender-neutrality in that sense. I just think that we should limit ourselves to topics of political relevance. [[User:Rez|Rez (The Administrators - anonym)]] 14:31, 25 October 2008 (UTC)<br />
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==Sorry==<br />
<br />
I didn't realize this wiki had a different focus from BoyWiki or that BoyWiki was coming back.<br />
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The [[Andreas Embiricos]] article is not about modelling, although I suppose its political value is not great. If you mean the Lyric stuff, it seemed relevant as "the first child pornography ring" and with the connection to the former FBI director, but I'm working on other things now. If you're uncomfortable with something, delete it.<br />
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And I've been trying to find the "GirlWiki," but I've had no luck.</div>Citizen 2416https://www.newgon.net/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Citizen_2416&diff=2164User talk:Citizen 24162008-10-25T14:52:58Z<p>Citizen 2416: </p>
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<div>==Thanks!==<br />
<br />
I'll take a look over your contributions and see if anything needs adding to. Reporting back later. Admin. [[User:Rez|Rez]] 15:24, 23 October 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:Some examples:<br />
<br />
:[[Childlover]]<br />
<br />
::Great - I just bolded the key term.<br />
<br />
:[[Girllover]]<br />
<br />
::Spot on.<br />
<br />
:[[Pederasty]]<br />
<br />
::Added 3 categories.<br />
<br />
:[[Ephebophilia]]<br />
<br />
::Added 5 categories.<br />
<br />
:[[Young friend]] | [[Adult friend]]<br />
<br />
::Gender-neutralised as ex-BoyWiki<br />
<br />
:Your edits were very useful. One minor note is that when an article is added to a parent category (e.g. Terminology), it should be added to a subcategory (e.g. Terminology: Childlove), so that the user who explores further loses nothing. If it is absolutely necessary, you should consider adding a new category to the list. I also personally believe that we should be using categories liberally but not nonsensically, especially at the start of this project. It helps create the illusion of a larger encyclopedia. [[User:Rez|Rez]] 17:25, 23 October 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Cool ==<br />
<br />
I saw what you were saying about categories, so I started using them more liberally. A few categories have no subcategories, though, and I'm not sure what they should be yet.<br />
<br />
Questions:<br />
Is the article for [[Andreas Embiricos]] too graphic? (It's from BoyWiki.) Here's the more explicit text:<br />
<br />
<blockquote><blockquote><br />
"Mr. Lingham drewn his gently between his open legs, as he sat there in a comfortable armchair, and unbuttoning without much ado the boy's fly, he took out of the trousers a pretty young prick absolutely white and absolutely hairless, taking care to take out as well the boy's balls which seemed to have the size of two almonds, before one peels off their shells." (Vol. 3, Part 6, Chapter 65, p. 73)</blockquote><br />
...and then he continues with five full pages describing a scene of mutual masturbation and the man performing oral sex to the boy, whom ejaculates three times.</blockquote><br />
<br />
<br />
And do you happen to know of any html to wiki converter that works? Something like that could probably save time. I tried one, but it crashed.<br />
<br />
--[[User:Citizen 2416|Citizen 2416]] 13:27, 25 October 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:As I said below, the answer is probably in limiting our endeavours to topics of explicitly political interest, and not moderating the explicitness of content unless this is absolutely necessary in law.<br />
<br />
:I am not naturally aware of any such converters, but wiki text formatting is quite easy to learn and includes a user friendly range of buttons in the edit window. I can probably get the range of buttons extended if you like. [[User:Rez|Rez (The Administrators - anonym)]] 14:36, 25 October 2008 (UTC)<br />
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::http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mediawiki_edit_toolbar I am currently unaware of how to modify the standard range. [[User:Rez|Rez (The Administrators - anonym)]] 14:52, 25 October 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
==BoyWiki==<br />
<br />
Thanks for digging out some more BoyWiki articles. I'm not sure whether boymodeling articles suit our ethos, though. Is there such a large body of work in that area, that it can make up a significant portal on this site? I am aware that BoyWiki intends to reopen when they have the volunteers they need, so these articles are probably not lost.<br />
<br />
I do know that there are Girl articles that could balance the emphasis, so we have no problem with gender-neutrality in that sense. I just think that we should limit ourselves to topics of political relevance. [[User:Rez|Rez (The Administrators - anonym)]] 14:31, 25 October 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
Sorry, I didn't realize this wiki had a different focus from BoyWiki or that BoyWiki was coming back.<br />
<br />
The [[Andreas Embiricos]] article is not about modelling, although I suppose its political value is not great. If you mean the Lyric stuff, it seemed relevant as "the first child pornography ring" and with the connection to the former FBI director, but I'm working on other things now. If you're uncomfortable with something, delete it.<br />
<br />
And I've been trying to find the "GirlWiki," but I've had no luck.</div>Citizen 2416https://www.newgon.net/wiki/index.php?title=The_Development_of_the_Sexual_Instinct&diff=2162The Development of the Sexual Instinct2008-10-25T14:38:31Z<p>Citizen 2416: from boywiki</p>
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'''The Development of the Sexual Instinct''' is a collection of case histories of childhood sexuality included in sex researcher [[Havelock Ellis]]'s six-volume work [[Studies in the Psychology of Sex]].<br />
<br />
<br />
==Further reading==<br />
<br />
* [http://newgon.com/CPP/Ellis/ The Development of the Sexual Instinct] on [http://newgon.com Newgon.com]<br />
* [https://www.boychat.org/messages/968660.htm Havelock Ellis's case histories of child sexuality] by Cerius, on [[BoyChat]].</div>Citizen 2416https://www.newgon.net/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Citizen_2416&diff=2155User talk:Citizen 24162008-10-25T13:27:45Z<p>Citizen 2416: /* Cool */ new section</p>
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<div>==Thanks!==<br />
<br />
I'll take a look over your contributions and see if anything needs adding to. Reporting back later. Admin. [[User:Rez|Rez]] 15:24, 23 October 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
:Some examples:<br />
<br />
:[[Childlover]]<br />
<br />
::Great - I just bolded the key term.<br />
<br />
:[[Girllover]]<br />
<br />
::Spot on.<br />
<br />
:[[Pederasty]]<br />
<br />
::Added 3 categories.<br />
<br />
:[[Ephebophilia]]<br />
<br />
::Added 5 categories.<br />
<br />
:[[Young friend]] | [[Adult friend]]<br />
<br />
::Gender-neutralised as ex-BoyWiki<br />
<br />
:Your edits were very useful. One minor note is that when an article is added to a parent category (e.g. Terminology), it should be added to a subcategory (e.g. Terminology: Childlove), so that the user who explores further loses nothing. If it is absolutely necessary, you should consider adding a new category to the list. I also personally believe that we should be using categories liberally but not nonsensically, especially at the start of this project. It helps create the illusion of a larger encyclopedia. [[User:Rez|Rez]] 17:25, 23 October 2008 (UTC)<br />
<br />
== Cool ==<br />
<br />
I saw what you were saying about categories, so I started using them more liberally. A few categories have no subcategories, though, and I'm not sure what they should be yet.<br />
<br />
Questions:<br />
Is the article for [[Andreas Embiricos]] too graphic? (It's from BoyWiki.) Here's the more explicit text:<br />
<br />
<blockquote><blockquote><br />
"Mr. Lingham drewn his gently between his open legs, as he sat there in a comfortable armchair, and unbuttoning without much ado the boy's fly, he took out of the trousers a pretty young prick absolutely white and absolutely hairless, taking care to take out as well the boy's balls which seemed to have the size of two almonds, before one peels off their shells." (Vol. 3, Part 6, Chapter 65, p. 73)</blockquote><br />
...and then he continues with five full pages describing a scene of mutual masturbation and the man performing oral sex to the boy, whom ejaculates three times.</blockquote><br />
<br />
<br />
And do you happen to know of any html to wiki converter that works? Something like that could probably save time. I tried one, but it crashed.<br />
<br />
--[[User:Citizen 2416|Citizen 2416]] 13:27, 25 October 2008 (UTC)</div>Citizen 2416https://www.newgon.net/wiki/index.php?title=Peter_Glawson&diff=2154Peter Glawson2008-10-25T12:37:40Z<p>Citizen 2416: /* See also */</p>
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<div>'''Peter Glawson''' was the screen name of one of the most prominent of the models in the Lyric International stable. Blond, handsome, and charismatic, he appeared in the feature film ''The Genesis Children'', and recycled pictures of him have earned him an enduring Usenet cult status.<br />
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==Born in Texas==<br />
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Mr. Glawson is most easily dated by his appearance in ''The Genesis Children''. Released in August 1972, the movie must have been filmed at least a year earlier, presumably during the summer of 1971. In that movie Peter is an adolescent, while in the short film ''Swim Party'', filmed before the fall of Lyric in 1973, he is clearly a young man.<br />
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An "incomplete and unofficial" biography of Peter was posted on Usenet in January 1999 by Boyhowdy [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.svens/msg/01f24ba9e68f2618], who that same month posted a series of published photos of Peter, along with commentary which survives on Google Groups. He states that Mr. Glawson was "born in the mid-1950s (probably 1955 or 56)." That would make him 15 or 16 in ''The Genesis Children'', and 17 or 18 in the last Lyric films.<br />
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Boyhowdy goes on to say that Peter "spent his early years in Texas with his older brother, Rick and younger half-brother, Maxey". [[Billy Byars, Jr.]], who founded Lyric, was raised in Tyler, Texas, and a Lyric film shot in Texas, ''Sandy Hill'', features a younger Peter. Another Lyric film, ''Summer Freedom'', shot on Padre Island National Seashore in Texas, may also include Peter. The same Usenet post also says that, "the earliest published photos of Peter that we know of are the ones of him and Maxey and Billy Marshall and the other boys on the Gulf Coast of Texas (playing along the beach). Peter is 12 in these photos."<br />
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Peter appears in ''The Genesis Childen'' wearing a Tyler YMCA T-shirt.<br />
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==Peter in California==<br />
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Boyhowdy’s "incomplete and unofficial" biography says that, "When Peter was around 12 … he and Maxey moved from Texas to California to live with their Uncle Terry." Terry’s status as "Uncle" is discussed elsewhere. Other sources describe Maxey as the actor Max Adams of ''The Genesis Children''. One of those involved in the scandal, a Lyric producer, said in a 1975 interview that police coerced an accusation from the younger brother of a boy who lived with him. The younger brother, 13 at the time, would have been born in 1960. This scarcely identifies Maxey and Peter, for having a brother is only somewhat rarer than having a mother. The producer also says that the younger boy came on weekends to stay with his brother, and mentions an alcoholic father, all of which would suggest that his houseguest’s family was close by, and not in Texas.<br />
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The producer also denied that the boy was his lover, but acknowledged that many – including the younger brother – believed that to be the case at the time. He also said that at the time of the interview, the older boy was in the Army.<br />
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An anonymous online source who claims to have known Peter says:<br />
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"I would say that he was totally straight and not a nudist but a 'financed boy' who was resident with an older person. He liked being looked at but I would doubt that he was that keen on looking. He was brought into the big city from the country and I would say that it was his practical nature rather than anything else that kept him there." [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.prettyboy/msg/9600bca3cb3239ce]<br />
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==Among the Lyric models==<br />
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Peter appears in Lyric’s magazines and films over what is clearly a period of years, from pre-adolescence to young manhood. Others of the boys in ''The Genesis Children'' are also clearly identifiable, however. In Usenet afterlife, Mr. Glawson is the most prominent of the Lyric models. Was he preeminent at the time? In ''The Genesis Children'', he supposedly has only a single line of dialog. However, one of the films, ''Peter and the Desert Riders'' has his name in the title.<br />
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Also, the Hollywood magazine ''Zipper'' had in its June-July 1972 issue, along with a review of ''The Genesis Children'', an item called “Zipper's Roommate of the Month: Peter Glawson (Young Star of "The Genesis Children")." Perhaps he was regarded as something special even then. An August 27, 2006 eBay listing for a copy of the issue says it contains "an exclusive interview via telephone with young Peter Glawson, star of ''Genesis Children'' entitled ''Genesis Child'' (with six tasteful photographs, including centerfold)."<br />
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He appears to have been a frequent presence at the Lyric studio and ''the pool with the cinderblock walls'', also Mr. Byars’s house, in the Hollywood Hills. One of Lyric's early magazines, ''Coq d'Or'', says "Peter rarely wears clothes around the studio."<br />
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==Heterosexuality==<br />
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Usenet posts by those who claim to know Mr. Glawson uniformly declare him to be heterosexual. None of the Lyric International films or magazines show him in sexual activity; indeed Lyric produced nothing showing anyone in sexual activity. Lyric produced only “physique” photos, although Guy Strait, associated in a distribution operation called DOM/Lyric, did produce pornography including child pornography.<br />
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The Lyric producer mentioned above did confirm that Lyric used as models some boys who also worked as call boys. The highly unreliable Robin Lloyd affirms that a "Peter, a thirteen-year-old and one of Byars's favorites, still commands a high price in the chicken market." (Lloyd, Robin, For Money or Love: Boy Prostitution in America, Ballantine Books, NY, 1976, p. 79) On the same page he affirms that ''The Genesis Children'' includes a Hawaiian boy named Guy Sommers, which can be disproved by consulting IMDB or the picture on the cover of the VHS tape.<br />
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There is even a published story that two of the Lyric boys participated in a tryst with J. Edgar Hoover and his assistant. [http://newgon.com/wiki/Billy_Byars%2C_Jr.#J._Edgar_Hoover_and_the_Lyric_boys].<br />
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That incident involved a boy who was 15 in 1969, and “another boy”, and again the source is unreliable, in this case the same man who circulated the tale of Hoover dressing up in drag. There is simply no evidence that Mr. Glawson did any more in front of Lyric’s cameras than take off his clothes. Nor is there reason to believe that anyone else ever did. While there were young men known to Lyric that did engage in sex for pay, there is no reason to believe that Mr. Glawson was among them, and those who seem to know him declare that he was not.<br />
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==Peter Today==<br />
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Boyhowdy’s 1999 post declares of Peter that<br />
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We do know for a fact that he is still alive, and in fact was the benefactor of Harlan 'Slim' Pfeiffer's estate, including (sources say) having acquired most all of Slim's collection of negatives and photos from the Lyric days. It is also reported that he bought up, or otherwise acquired, the rights to all the nudist stuff, including the films, most of it which was owned by Falcon Studios, and the remainder by a couple of photographers. It is our understanding that Peter is still in contact with the Dom and they remain friends. <br />
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Peter Glawson has made some appearances as an adult, including on some cable TV talk show a few years ago. He apparently is unwilling to say much about his childhood stardom or give out information about any of the other boys, possibly to protect their privacy. He did acknowledge his acquisition of the original photos and indicated that The Genesis Children as well as videos of the home movies were to be re-released, which has in fact happened. <br />
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Some of what Boyhowdy has to say is verifiably incorrect: he merges the three separate figures of "the DOM" who was Guy Strait; Billy Byars, Jr.; and the Lyric producer referred to but not named here.<br />
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Other Usenet posts from 2001 describe Mr. Glawson as happily married with children, and having no regrets about his early career in photography.<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Lyric International]]<br />
* [[Billy Byars, Jr.]]<br />
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[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:People]][[Category:People: American]][[Category:People: Media]][[Category:Youth]][[Category:History & Events]][[Category:History & Events: 1970s]][[Category:Child Pornography]][[Category:TV & Media]]</div>Citizen 2416https://www.newgon.net/wiki/index.php?title=Billy_Byars,_Jr.&diff=2153Billy Byars, Jr.2008-10-25T12:34:22Z<p>Citizen 2416: restored some citations, added See also</p>
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<div>'''Billy Byars, Jr.''' (1936-), owner of [[Lyric International]], producer of ''The Genesis Children'', partner to pornographer Guy Strait, friend of J. Edgar Hoover, key figure in "the first [[child pornography]] ring ... brought to public view", perpetual footnote in Kennedy assassination theories, is a fascinating figure. And also a public figure, which permits his discussion here. Mr. Byars is of primary interest here as the owner of Lyric. Many of Lyric's reputedly 90 magazines and many movies still circulate on the Internet. Photographed by Harlan 'Slim' Pfeiffer, many were filmed in Mr. Byars's home - also the Lyric studio - and around ''the pool with the cinderblock walls'' in his backyard. While Lyric's films featured extensive nudity of [[boy]]s and young men, Lyric produced only "physique" photography and never pornography. However, two of the "Lyric boys" who played around Byars's pool later found their way into the bed - or at least the limousine - of the Director of the FBI.<br />
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==Adopted with a silver spoon in his mouth==<br />
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Billy Goebel Byars, Jr. was born in Texas in August, 1936 and adopted through the Edna Gladney Foundation in Fort Worth by oil man Billy Byars, Sr. and his wife, Emily.[Viola Hegyi Swisher, "Generating ''The Genesis Children''", ''After Dark'', September 1972, p. 18].<br />
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While his birth certificate says "William G. Byars" and newspapers reports on the Lyric scandal, when he was out of the country, call him "William", when he is able to give his own name, and in other legal papers, he is always "Billy". His father is "Billy" on his death certificate.<br />
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The 1941 movie ''Blossoms in the Dust'' [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033407] highlighted the accomplishments of Edna Gladney, two of which are important to the story of Billy Byars, Jr. In 1936 Edna Gladney succeeded in having the Texas legislature pass a bill to have children registered as the children of their adoptive parents, removing the stigma of illegitimacy. Byars was one of the earliest beneficiaries of this law. In 1951, again at the instignation of Gladney, Texas law was changed to give adopted children the same inheritance rights as biological children.[http://www.adoptionsbygladney.com/html/about/history.php]<br />
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That same year the Byars family adopted Billy, they purchased a large corner lot in Tyler, Texas, and in 1937 built a two story house in the Monterey style. The scale of the house was sumptuous for the midst of the Depression: brick and frame construction with three baths, a three-car garage and a servants room with a bath. The house was enlarged to 5,000 square feet in the 1940s, and Byars's parents resided for the rest of their lives. There was a Steinway grand piano in the living room, and parties that included such guests as Ronald Reagan. [http://www.historictyler.org/spring_tour/tour_2004/summers_2004]<br />
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Tyler is in the eastern, green part of Texas, the closest major city being Shreveport, Louisiana.<br />
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Byars is quoted as describing his mother "an elegant but colorful woman" of Irish descent. [Swisher, ''supra''] The family businesses included not only oil, but the Byars Royal Oaks Farm in Tyler, where the elder Byars bred champion cattle. [http://eisenhowermemorial.org/presidential-papers/first-term/documents/1101.cfm] The Byars family includes a sister who continued raising cattle [Swisher, ''supra''] and in 2003 there were still Byars breeding champion cattle.<br />
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Billy Jr. was also fond of telling people that his biological parents were of Russian royalty, however local Tyler, Texas residents contend he was the son of a coffee shop waitress and a lonesome trucker.[Interview. Anthony Aikman-2006 by Ballog] [Anthony Summers, Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1993]<br />
<br />
Although Billy Jr. would often tell people he held various degrees and was a molecular biologist, in truth he only attended MIT for one semester from Sept. 16, 1954 - January 7, 1955 and held no college degree. [MIT Registrar - 2006] After dropping out of college, Billy reportedly had a falling out with his father regarding his [[homosexuality]] and left his Texas home.[Interview: Anthony Aikman-2006 by Ballog] Apparently, Billy and his father somewhat reconciled their differences and in the early 1960s, in his mid twenties, he was still joining his father for annual vacations at Clint Murchison's Del Charo Hotel in San Diego, where they often took the bungalow next to J. Edgar Hoover's.[Anthony Summers, ''Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover''. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1993, p. 337]<br />
<br />
==At the summit in Los Angeles==<br />
<br />
Billy Byars, Sr. died in 1965. Presumably Billy, Jr. received an inheritance, and by 1968 was already installed in California. "His bachelor pad in the Hollywood hills boasts massive oaken beams and other touches of baronial elegance," according to a 1972 interviewer. [Swisher, ''supra''] Summers says that "Byars's house in Los Angeles, at the summit of Laurel Canyon, was for a while a haven for adult homosexuals and male teenagers." His friendship with J. Edgar Hoover continued, and he received at least one Christmas card from the FBI Director in the house on Mulholland Drive. [Summers, ''supra'']<br />
<br />
Byars's life and Lyric's history are inseparable at this point. An examination of the Lyric catalog would clarify dates. Two of the Lyric films seem to have been produced in Texas, ''Summer Freedom'' supposedly shot on Padre Island Seashore near Corpus Christi, Texas, and ''Sandy Hill'', possibly in the town of that name north-west of Houston. Online sources say that the earliest photos of [[Peter Glawson]] are from the Texas gulf coast, while ''Sandy Hill'' features a Peter notably younger than in ''The Genesis Children'' or in photos taken at the house on Mulholland Drive. It would also be interesting to know how Byars's relationship with 'Slim' Pfeiffer began. Byars and Pfeiffer may have begun their photography in Texas.<br />
<br />
Valerie Swisher, who interviewed Byars after ''The Genesis Children'' was released, describes him: "Molecular biologist Billy Byars came to movie making with a background in biophysics, bacteriology, protozoology, virology, geology, astronomy, mathematics, entomology and weight training. He also exercises great expertise at the racetrack and in Las Vegas, computing odds. In more orthodox veins, he's a painter, art photographer, camera expert and color connoisseur." [Swisher, ''supra'']. Summers, more concise, calls Byars "a part-time filmmaker, fitness enthusiast, and dilettante".[Summers, ''op. cit.'', p. 377]<br />
<br />
Swisher calls Byars a "tall Texan" and describes him as a "very forthright black sheep, acting always upon passionate private conviction and not out of hypocritical public pretense." [Swisher, ''supra'']<br />
<br />
The ''After Dark'' interview includes a photo of Byars and the actor Vincent Child in Rome filming ''The Genesis Children''. After the photo has been reproduced in a magazine, the magazine microfilmed, and the microfilm laserprinted, it is possible to state that Byars is the same height as Childs, and that wearing dark glasses and a ten-gallon hat he looks very much like anyone else wearing dark glasses and a ten-gallon hat.<br />
<br />
It seems safe to affirm that Byars was not unfamiliar with the seamier side of life in Los Angeles, or unacquainted with young men in the sex trade from the ''Gold Cup''.<br />
<br />
==Photography of enduring quality==<br />
<br />
However, according to a 1975 interview with a Lyric producer,<br />
<br />
<blockquote><br />
"Lyric had specialized in nude photos of models ranging from twelve to twenty years of age. As a physique photographer, Lyric had been out of business for several years, since Byars did not approve of doing hardcore photography and the market accepted little else, but the company name was being carried on as a producer of television travelogues." <br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
Lyric's production occurred in a narrow window of time, when social mores had loosened sufficiently to permit the sort of naturist films it produced, but not enough to allow more explicit content. The same producer acknowledged that "Lyric had once been one of the biggest photographers in the business." [http://web.archive.org/web/20070629205045/http://www.hunkvideo.com/library/oneonone.html]<br />
<br />
Mr. Byars himself was a sometime photographer. ''Zipper'' magazine, a Hollywood publication which billed itself as “Art/Entertainment For Men” included in its February 1972 issue the pictorial “Photographer of the Month: Billy Byars.”<br />
<br />
Something more that being "one of the biggest" is needed to explain the frequency with which Lyric's films and photographs circulate even today. Perhaps it was the quality of Pfeiffer's photography, which transcends the genre, or the choice of models, or the beauty of the settings. Pfeiffer's camera captured a swimming pool full of splashing boys, high above Los Angeles and in the hazy distance the sea, and made those summer afternoons eternal.<br />
<br />
==Byars and the Lyric boys==<br />
<br />
It is difficult to determine just who the "Lyric boys" who appear in Lyric's films were, and the nature of their relationship with Mr. Byars. Possibly he merely considered that having a lot of naked teenagers about improved the view.<br />
<br />
Peter Glawson appeared both in the early Texas films and the later California ones. An online source says<br />
<br />
<blockquote><br />
"I would say that he was totally straight and not a nudist but a 'financed boy' who was resident with an older person. He liked being looked at but I would doubt that he was that keen on looking. He was brought into the big city from the country and I would say that it was his practical nature rather than anything else that kept him there." [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.prettyboy/msg/9600bca3cb3239ce]<br />
</blockquote> <br />
<br />
Various other posts confirm Mr. Glawson's heterosexual orientation. Others posts assert that a younger brother appeared in Lyric productions as "Maxey Adams". The family may have been originally from Texas.<br />
<br />
One of Lyric's early magazines, ''Coq d'Or'', says "Peter rarely wears clothes around the studio." However, there is no reason to believe that Lyric's text about its models is any more factual than what Playboy prints about its models.<br />
<br />
Robin Lloyd affirms in 1976 that a "Peter, a thirteen-year-old and one of Byars's favorites, still commands a high price in the chicken market."[Lloyd, Robin, ''For Money or Love: Boy Prostitution in America'', Ballantine Books, NY, 1976, p. 79] Lloyd's "Peter" may not be intended to be Peter Glawson, and even so on the same page Lloyd also claims that "One of Billy Byars's best sellers, Genesis Children, portrayed the "delights" of Guy Sommers, a boy ... imported from Hawaii". There is no "Guy Sommers" credited in that film, but Lloyd provides no footnotes or bibliography and cannot have envisioned that his readers would have access to something like IMDB. He also refers to "Guy Strait (probably not his real name)" without bothering to check.[Lloyd, p.77] It is the name Strait was born with. [Clifford L. Linedecker, Children in Chains, 1981, p.228] Online rumor seems reliable in comparison with Lloyd.<br />
<br />
The previously cited Lyric producer did respond to questions about the Lyric boys, one of whom lived with him. He says that one of his accusers in the 1973 scandal "was the kid brother of a fellow that was living with me at the time. The older brother was just a beautiful boy, a really great guy, whom I had taken in because things were so rough for him at home-an alcoholic father, the whole bit." In response to the direct question, "The older brother was your lover, then?" he responded,<br />
<br />
<blockquote><br />
"Not in the classic sense, no. But that's what everybody assumed, and you can't stop people from making assumptions, you know. Everybody figured we had some wild affair going, and they couldn't understand why my girl friend at the time wasn't jealous-why she liked him too. But in reality we were just a family unit - no wild sex orgies or anything. But even the kid brother thought we were lovers, and he was kind of jealous that his brother was getting all the affection, and not him." [http://web.archive.org/web/20070629205045/http://www.hunkvideo.com/library/oneonone.html]<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
There is no reason to believe that the producer's houseguest and Peter Glawson were the same person.<br />
<br />
Given widespread statements by those who knew him that the most prominent of the Lyric boys was straight, and the direct statement by someone at Lyric that one of the boys lived with him in a non-sexual family relationship, the minimum assumption is the most indicated: that the Lyric boys were merely part of the scenery at Mr. Byars's house.<br />
<br />
==The next film==<br />
<br />
There are several version of what Byars and Lyric were planning at the time of the scandal. In 1972 Swisher says,<br />
<br />
<blockquote><br />
"Byars's next film venture is an already filmed documentary he has titled ''The Russian Adventure''. It unreels as a story of the travels of an International Boyhood group, filmed not only in Russia, but elsewhere in Eastern Europe. Still in the early planning stages is a ballet feature to be filmed in the desert. Nude. Of course."[Swisher, ''op. cit.'']<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
The ''L.A. Times'' article about the arrests described Lyric's current project as "''Soviet '73'', a film about Jews traveling in Russia." [''L.A. Times, op. cit.''] The Lyric producer claimed in 1975 that, "We had a tremendous amount of money sunk into a major TV travelogue on Russia just then." [http://web.archive.org/web/20070629205045/http://www.hunkvideo.com/library/oneonone.html]<br />
The recurring Russian theme indicates all three sources are discussing the same project. There are several possible explanations for the contradictions:<br />
<br />
* Byars's plans may have changed after ''The Genesis Children'' flopped at the box office. Permission to film in Russia may have been difficult to obtain in the early 1970s, and rather than abandon permits and contacts already in place, it may be Lyric decided to film something else.<br />
* Byars may have tilted his interview with Swisher, who was primarily a dance writer, to her interests. He twice describes his film sequences as "ballet" when speaking to Swisher, while elsewhere he prefers the term "symphony". Also, when pushing one's current films, it may be inadvisable to indicate that one has abandoned that line for something completely different.<br />
* Just how the L.A. Times or the police would know of Lyric's plans is unclear, and the reporting may be unreliable. Perhaps only in Los Angeles does one include in an arrest report the suspects' plans for their next movie.<br />
* Lyric may have been planning to make two films at the same time, during the same trip: one for television, and one for DOM-LYRIC. <br />
<br />
==The Scandal==<br />
<br />
Lyric came to an end in late 1973, in a scandal that the Meese Commission later called "the first child pornography ring ... brought to public view." (Attorney General's Commission on Pornography (1986) PART 3: Law Enforcement Recommendations. Chapter 3, paragraph 5 [http://web.archive.org/web/20070629205045/http://www.porn-report.com/303-child-pornography-law-recommendations.htm]. ''The Los Angeles Times'' article about the arrests was titled "14 Men Indicted in Sex Movies Featuring Boys Ages 6 to 17: Son of Actress, Heir to Oil Fortune, YMCA Counselor, Scoutmaster, Schoolteacher Among Those Facing Charges". [''Los Angeles Times'' Oct 27, 1973, p. B1]<br />
<br />
The "Heir to Oil Fortune" was Billy Byars, Jr. and the "Son of Actress" a Lyric producer. As the policy of the ''Los Angeles Times'' was then to not index criminal justice proceedings, it is difficult to determine just what happened to the fourteen accused. A later story confirms that the first of the accused to go to trial ("YMCA Counselor") was acquitted after a full day of jury deliberation, and that two others had pled guilty. A jury deliberated four days before convicting D.M.Y, accused on nine counts, although one of the two thirteen-year-old victims testified that he had been dangled over a cliff by two policemen who insisted he name men with whom he had had sex. (Lloyd, ''supra'', p. 151) also [http://web.archive.org/web/20070629205045/http://www.paedosexualitaet.de/exp/cliffsrc.html]. The defendant in that case received a $500 fine.[''L.A. Times'', May 31, 1974, p. E4. Online summary only consulted]<br />
<br />
While the Meese commission and the ''Los Angeles Times'' both refer to films of child pornography, the news article says that the accused were charged not with child pornography, but with molesting children. It says "One confiscated film shows the boys playing nude on a beach believed to be near Corpus Christi." Lyric did produce such a film, ''Summer Freedom'' but perhaps no charges were filed based on the film because it was not pornographic under California law.<br />
<br />
Two of the accusers<br />
<br />
<blockquote><br />
"... were just hustlers the police had dug up ... they had worked for Lyric a good little while ago. Even the police didn't push their stories too much, because they were both well into their teens and they admitted they were willing participants." [http://web.archive.org/web/20070629205045/http://www.hunkvideo.com/library/oneonone.html]<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
The Los Angeles scandal was fueled in part by the 1973 murders in Houston, Texas, by Dean Corll of at least 27 teenagers. The police insinuated to the press that the Lyric scandal might have a connection. Lyric's owner was originally from Texas; another of those arrested in the case was identified by the ''L.A. Times'' as "W.J., a Houston photographer".<br />
<br />
Some of the accusations are puzzling and inconsistent. While the headline says the men were "Indicted in Sex Movies" the text says "the indictments do not charge anyone with making obscene films." Guy Strait was arrested, as well as another man, D.M.Y, called "a major competitor of Strait in the distribution of homosexual films" [''L.A. Times, supra'']. How a "ring" can be formed by competitors is not explained. While that's certainly possible in price-fixing, that is not mentioned as a concern in the episode.<br />
<br />
[[Lloyd Martin]], the policeman most responsible for the arrests, constructed a national reputation as the "child abuse policeman". He later fell into discredit. Widespread criticism of him and his methods is easily found on the Internet. Martin's signature sound bite is that child abuse is "worse than homicide." One ''Salon'' article calls him "infamous" and provides a good general discussion of the exaggerations of child pornography foes [http://archive.salon.com/mwt/feature/2000/01/31/kincaid/index1.html].<br />
<br />
Byars's old friend J. Edgar Hoover had died in May, 1972.<br />
<br />
==Fortunes Restored?==<br />
<br />
Mr. Byars was out of the country at the time of the scandal. Robin Lloyd claimed in 1976 that "As soon as the heat was on, Byars fled to Europe to avoid prosecution. He is presumably there today and will probably stay, since there are at least four outstanding felony warrants for his arrest in this country."[Lloyd, p. 78] The Lyric producer, however, says that after Strait's arrest he spoke with friends in the police and was told there was no cause for concern. He at least did not feel "the heat was on". [http://web.archive.org/web/20070629205045/http://www.hunkvideo.com/library/oneonone.html] Summers says that, "Byars was by then abroad, reportedly in Morocco, and stayed out of the United States for many years to come."[Summers, ''op. cit.'', p. 377] The implication is that he had returned by the time Summers interviewed him in 1988.<br />
<br />
While Swisher refers to Byars's mother in the past tense, Texas public records show that Emily Byars died on December 30, 1979 [http://vitals.rootsweb.ancestry.com/tx/death/search.cgi]. Byars's sister purchased the family home from the estate. [http://www.historictyler.org/spring_tour/tour_2004/summers_2004] That would imply that there were other heirs, presumably Billy Byars, Jr.<br />
<br />
The house in the Hollywood hills that served as Byars's home and as the Lyric studio was last sold on 12/01/1988 for $600,000. [http://www.zillow.com/homes/map/8207-mulholland-drive_lb/los-angeles-ca_rb/] Whether Byars was the seller would be available in Los Angeles public records, but isn't online.<br />
<br />
So whatever harm may have been done to his finances by ''The Genesis Children'', it's safe to assume he inherited another chunk of a Texas-sized fortune, and this after a decade that had been good to oil money. Fifteen years older and presumably wiser, he may have held onto it. Certainly he has not since cut as wide as swath as he did in the halcyon years of Lyric International.<br />
<br />
==Kennedy Assassination Conspiracy==<br />
<br />
Summers shows through numerous details how very well the Byars, father and son, knew Hoover. The afternoon of President Kennedy's death, J. Edgar Hoover phoned three people: the Attorney General, the head of the Secret Service, and Billy Byars, Sr. [Summers, ''supra'', p. 329]<br />
<br />
One statement by Billy Byars, Jr., is frequently repeated by conspiracy theorists. Byars related to Summers a conversation at the Del Charro during the summer of 1964 or 1965.<br />
<br />
<blockquote><br />
"I asked him, 'Do you think Lee Harvey Oswald did it?' And he stopped and looked at me for quite a long time. Then he said, "If I told you what I really know, it would be very dangerous to this country. Our whole political system could be disrupted.' That's all he said, and I could see he wasn't going to say any more." [Summers, supra, p. 330]. <br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
Usually when this quote is cited online Byars, Jr. is described as "teenage", but he would have been in his late twenties.<br />
[edit] Common Errors<br />
<br />
Several errors are frequent in online information about Byars.<br />
<br />
* The most common is spelling his name as "Byers".<br />
* The next common is describing his mother as an actress. While the headline in the 1973 scandal referred to "Heir to Oil Fortune" and "Son of Actress", "son of actress" was in fact someone else, a Lyric producer.<br />
* Lastly, More & Co. of San Francisco, in their magazine More Children #1 identified one of the models as "Billy Byars, Jr." This is probably a competitor tweaking Lyric. It is not plausible that the son of a wealthy Texan was posing for nude photos in San Francisco. Byars's 1936 birth doesn't match up, either.<br />
* Online searches find a William G Byars, Jr who died on June 15, 1997 in Pottsboro, Texas. But his date of birth is given as October 21, 1926, so presumably he's a different Byars.<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
[[Peter Glawson]]<br />
[[Lyric International]]<br />
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[[Category:Countries and Cultures: Historical]][[Category:Child Pornography]][[Category:TV & Media]]</div>Citizen 2416https://www.newgon.net/wiki/index.php?title=Lyric_International&diff=2152Lyric International2008-10-25T12:17:36Z<p>Citizen 2416: see also</p>
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<div>'''Lyric International''' produced "physique" photography of [[boy]]s and young men from the late 1960s until the scandal that brought about the studio's downfall in 1973. Lyric's most ambititious production was the 1971 feature film ''The Genesis Children''. Its owner was [[Billy Byars, Jr.]], its main photographer was Harlan 'Slim' Pfeiffer, and the best known of the youthful "Lyric Boy" actors was [[Peter Glawson]].<br />
<br />
==Physique but not pornography==<br />
<br />
According to a 1975 interview with a Lyric producer,<br />
<br />
<blockquote>"Lyric had specialized in nude photos of models ranging from twelve to twenty years of age. As a physique photographer, Lyric had been out of business for several years, since Byars did not approve of doing hardcore photography and the market accepted little else, but the company name was being carried on as a producer of television travelogues."</blockquote><br />
<br />
Lyric's production occurred in a narrow window of time, when social mores had loosened sufficiently to permit the sort of naturist films it produced, but not enough to allow more explicit content. The same producer acknowledged that "Lyric had once been one of the biggest photographers in the business." [http://web.archive.org/web/20070630160500/http://www.hunkvideo.com/library/oneonone.html].<br />
<br />
==DOM-LYRIC==<br />
<br />
While Lyric produced no pornography, Lyric's owner joined with Guy Strait in creating DOM-LYRIC to distribute Lyric's products as well as Strait's. Strait did produce pornography, including pornography with adolescent actors.<br />
<br />
==Crossroads of the World==<br />
<br />
Lyric also had an office located at '''Crossroads Of The World''' office complex in Hollywood, which Wikipedia says "has been called America's first modern shopping mall. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossroads_of_the_World]<br />
<br />
Director Anthony Aikman and cameramand Bill Dewar edited ''The Genesis Children'' there. Aikman describes the studio as being in a building designed to look like Mothers Hubbard's shoe.[Interview, 2006, Anthony Aikman by Ballog]<br />
<br />
<br />
Zipper Magazine's office was also in the complex.[citation needed] That, along with the large amount of space that Zipper devoted to Lyric's projects, and the number of ads in the magazine purchased by Lyric, suggests that it too may have been owned by Byrars.<br />
<br />
Wikipedia also says that "In the late-1960s, one of the offices was occupied by a porn magazine that tried out young hopefuls by photographing them in the nude. It was here that an unknown John C. Holmes went one day and showcased his unusually large "endowment", leading to the start of his notorious career in adult films." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossroads_of_the_World]<br />
<br />
==Uncle Terry==<br />
<br />
Online rumour persistently identifies a figure called "Uncle Terry" associated with the Lyric studio and Byars. The list of those charged in the 1973 scandal does not include anyone named Terry. One Lyric short was reportedly titled ''Uncle Terry's Pool''.<br />
<br />
Usenet posts mention a "Terry Stuart" as sharing Mr. Byars's house; as a former physique model; as the owner of the house with the pool with the cinderblock walls; as being Peter Glawson's uncle; as the person Mr. Glawson lived with; or as all of the above.<br />
<br />
One 2001 Usenet post says, <br />
<br />
<vlockquote>"I think that I am clear about Terry; he was Billy's first and always tried to look the biz. He had a thing about clean money and used to wash it and dry it in a big rotary dryer in the studio. Once someone saw all the money coming out and called the Feds 'cos they thought he was printing it! He was always running around with a briefcase; I'd forgotten all this." [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.prettyboy/msg/eb4d67d8f2e168fe]<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
A January 1999 Usenet post describes the cover of an issue of Lyric's "Naked Boyhood" magazine, probably Vol 1, #2, as showing "young [[Peter Glawson]] on the Gulf Coast of Texas with his Uncle Terry (middle) and an unknown adult friend."<br />
<br />
One of the earliest appearances of Billy Byars' Lyric Studios upon the gay "physique magazine" scene in California appeared in the October 1965 issue of "Muscle Teens" magazine published by Y.P. Productions. This issue featured photographs of various nude teen males including the soon to be famous 15 year old "Terry Stuart".[http://www.timinvermont.com]<br />
<br />
In almost all of Lyrics' magazines, Byars would give each specific issue a "title" and include a mostly ficticious "storyline" about the photos included. In one particular issue that featured the Lyric boys swimming, naked as usual, at the Mulholland Drive home, Byars wrote about the Lyric boys "...visiting Uncle Terry and Uncle Bill..." at their home for a summer swim.[needs source]<br />
<br />
Summers's quote of Smith on the use of "Uncle" in nicknames [Summers, p. 378] argues against presuming that Terry is actually uncle to Mr. Glawson or to anyone else. There is no "Terry" in the list of those arrested, and no "Terry" in the extensive credits of ''The Genesis Children''.<br />
<br />
Three of the others accused with Mr. Byars in the 1973 case were also said to be from Hollywood. All three are roughly ten years younger than Byars. At least one of them was acquitted at trial in 1973. All are possible candidates for "Terry", but "Terry" could well be someone else, or merely a figure of rumour.<br />
<br />
==The scandal==<br />
<br />
Lyric came to an end in late 1973, in a scandal that the [Meese Commission] later called "the first [[child pornography]] ring ... brought to public view." (Attorney General's Commission on Pornography (1986) PART 3: Law Enforcement Recommendations. Chapter 3, paragraph 5 [http://www.porn-report.com/303-child-pornography-law-recommendations.htm].<br />
<br />
The ''Los Angeles Times'' article about the arrests was titled "14 Men Indicted in Sex Movies Featuring Boys Ages 6 to 17: Son of Actress, Heir to Oil Fortune, [[YMCA]] Counselor, Scoutmaster, Schoolteacher Among Those Facing Charges". [Los Angeles Times Oct 27, 1973, p. B1] <br />
<br />
The "Heir to Oil Fortune" was Lyric's owner, and the "Son of Actress" a Lyric producer. As the policy of the ''Los Angeles Times'' was then to not index criminal justice proceedings, it used to be difficult to determine just what happened to the fourteen accused.<br />
<br />
Those newspaper archives with full-text indexing are now available online, however. A later story confirms that the first of the accused to go to trial ("YMCA Counselor") was acquitted after a full day of jury deliberation, and that two others had pled guilty.<br />
<br />
[http://web.archive.org/web/20070630160500/http://www.boywiki.org/wiki/Guy_Strait Guy Strait], though among the first two arrested in the case, jumped bail and was never brought to trial on the Los Angeles charges. <br />
<br />
While the Meese Commission and the ''Los Angeles Times'' both refer to films of child pornography, the news article says that the accused were charged not with child pornography, but with molesting children. It says "One confiscated film shows the boys playing nude on a beach believed to be near Corpus Christi." Lyric did produce such a film, ''Summer Freedom'', but a film of "boys playing nude on a beach" is neither pornography nor illegal in this jurisdiction.<br />
<br />
One source claims that one of the boys was "dangled over a cliff" by policemen until he agreed to name men he had had sex with [http://web.archive.org/web/20070630160500/http://www.paedosexualitaet.de/exp/cliffsrc.html].<br />
<br />
The claim was apparently made in open court. The Lyric producer cited above also says that two of the accusers "were just hustlers the police had dug up to testify two of them were just hustlers the police had dug up ... they had worked for Lyric a good little while ago. Even the police didn't push their stories too much, because they were both well into their teens and they admitted they were willing participants." <br />
<br />
The Los Angeles scandal was fueled in part by the August 1973 discovery of the murders in Houston, Texas, by Dean Corll of at least 27 teenagers. The police insinuated to the press that the Lyric scandal might have a connection. Lyric's owner was originally from Texas; another of those arrested in the case was identified by the ''L.A. Times'' as "W.J., 55, a Houston photographer".<br />
<br />
Lloyd Martin, the policeman most responsible for the arrests, constructed a national reputation as the "child abuse policeman". He later fell into discredit. Widespread criticism of him and his methods is easily found on the Internet. Martin's signature sound bite is that child abuse is "worse than homicide." One Salon article calls him "infamous" and provides a good general discussion of the exaggerations of child pornography foes [http://archive.salon.com/mwt/feature/2000/01/31/kincaid/index1.html].<br />
<br />
==Technical quality of the films==<br />
<br />
Pfeiffer is said to have filmed the Lyric movies in 16mm, and reduced them to 8mm for distribution. Guy Strait, who handled the distribution end of DOM-LYRIC, recounted in prison his techniques for avoiding piracy of his films. Part of his 70s era copy-protection technology was to reduce the quality of his 8mm commercial products to the point that reproductions would not be of salable quality. (Clifford L. Linedecker,''Children in Chains'' 1981)<br />
<br />
The pool with the cinderblock walls which appears in many Lyric shorts changed over time: the diving board was removed, and the walls repainted. In some films the cinderblock walls appear to be black or purplish, but still photos taken at the same time, or perhaps printed from a frame of the 16mm negative, show the walls to be royal blue. The video files that circulate on the Internet and the DVDs available commercially may have been made from old or deteriorated 8mm films.<br />
<br />
==Books, magazines, and films==<br />
<br />
''The Genesis Children'' was Lyric's only feature film, its other movies being shorts produced in 16mm and reduced to 8mm for distribution. Some of the films are:<br />
* ''Danish Boys' Camp''. Feature documentary. 1971. Producer: Billy Byars. Editor: Wayne Schotten<br />
* ''Swim Party'' and ''Spring Break'' were filmed by Slim Pfeiffer at the pool with the cinderblock walls at the Lyric studio in Los Angeles.<br />
* ''Sandy Hill'' may have been filmed in Sandy Hill in east Texas.<br />
* ''Summer Freedom'' was made at Corpus Christi National Seashore in Texas.<br />
* ''Peter and the Desert Riders''<br />
* ''How to Make Friends''<br />
<br />
Lyric produced a number of magazines (two authors, Robin Lloyd and Clifford Linedecker, say 90 magazines were produced, but neither cites his source for the figure) and at least one calendar.<br />
<br />
Some of the magazine titles include:<br />
<br />
* ''Naked Boyhood Magazine''<br />
* ''Sun Children''<br />
* ''Lyric's American Boys''<br />
* ''Naked Teens''<br />
* ''Coq d'Or''<br />
<br />
==See also==<br />
<br />
* [[Billy Byars, Jr.]]<br />
* [[Peter Glawson]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Censorship]][[Category:Gay]][[Category:Child Pornography]][[Category:Art]][[Category:Youth]][[Category:TV & Media]][[Category:Law/Crime]][[Category:Law/Crime: American]]<br />
[[Category:History & Events]][[Category:History & Events: American]][[Category:History & Events: 1970s]][[Category:History & Events: Real Crime]][[Category:History & Events: Personal Scandals]][[Category:Publications & Documents]][[Category:Pubs: Books]][[Category:Pubs: Magazines & Newspapers]]</div>Citizen 2416https://www.newgon.net/wiki/index.php?title=Lyric_International&diff=2151Lyric International2008-10-25T12:13:41Z<p>Citizen 2416: from boywiki</p>
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<div>'''Lyric International''' produced "physique" photography of [[boy]]s and young men from the late 1960s until the scandal that brought about the studio's downfall in 1973. Lyric's most ambititious production was the 1971 feature film ''The Genesis Children''. Its owner was [[Billy Byars, Jr.]], its main photographer was Harlan 'Slim' Pfeiffer, and the best known of the youthful "Lyric Boy" actors was [[Peter Glawson]].<br />
<br />
<br />
==Physique but not pornography==<br />
<br />
According to a 1975 interview with a Lyric producer,<br />
<br />
<blockquote>"Lyric had specialized in nude photos of models ranging from twelve to twenty years of age. As a physique photographer, Lyric had been out of business for several years, since Byars did not approve of doing hardcore photography and the market accepted little else, but the company name was being carried on as a producer of television travelogues."</blockquote><br />
<br />
Lyric's production occurred in a narrow window of time, when social mores had loosened sufficiently to permit the sort of naturist films it produced, but not enough to allow more explicit content. The same producer acknowledged that "Lyric had once been one of the biggest photographers in the business." [http://web.archive.org/web/20070630160500/http://www.hunkvideo.com/library/oneonone.html].<br />
<br />
==DOM-LYRIC==<br />
<br />
While Lyric produced no pornography, Lyric's owner joined with Guy Strait in creating DOM-LYRIC to distribute Lyric's products as well as Strait's. Strait did produce pornography, including pornography with adolescent actors.<br />
<br />
==Crossroads of the World==<br />
<br />
Lyric also had an office located at '''Crossroads Of The World''' office complex in Hollywood, which Wikipedia says "has been called America's first modern shopping mall. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossroads_of_the_World]<br />
<br />
Director Anthony Aikman and cameramand Bill Dewar edited ''The Genesis Children'' there. Aikman describes the studio as being in a building designed to look like Mothers Hubbard's shoe.[Interview, 2006, Anthony Aikman by Ballog]<br />
<br />
<br />
Zipper Magazine's office was also in the complex.[citation needed] That, along with the large amount of space that Zipper devoted to Lyric's projects, and the number of ads in the magazine purchased by Lyric, suggests that it too may have been owned by Byrars.<br />
<br />
Wikipedia also says that "In the late-1960s, one of the offices was occupied by a porn magazine that tried out young hopefuls by photographing them in the nude. It was here that an unknown John C. Holmes went one day and showcased his unusually large "endowment", leading to the start of his notorious career in adult films." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossroads_of_the_World]<br />
<br />
==Uncle Terry==<br />
<br />
Online rumour persistently identifies a figure called "Uncle Terry" associated with the Lyric studio and Byars. The list of those charged in the 1973 scandal does not include anyone named Terry. One Lyric short was reportedly titled ''Uncle Terry's Pool''.<br />
<br />
Usenet posts mention a "Terry Stuart" as sharing Mr. Byars's house; as a former physique model; as the owner of the house with the pool with the cinderblock walls; as being Peter Glawson's uncle; as the person Mr. Glawson lived with; or as all of the above.<br />
<br />
One 2001 Usenet post says, <br />
<br />
<vlockquote>"I think that I am clear about Terry; he was Billy's first and always tried to look the biz. He had a thing about clean money and used to wash it and dry it in a big rotary dryer in the studio. Once someone saw all the money coming out and called the Feds 'cos they thought he was printing it! He was always running around with a briefcase; I'd forgotten all this." [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.prettyboy/msg/eb4d67d8f2e168fe]<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
A January 1999 Usenet post describes the cover of an issue of Lyric's "Naked Boyhood" magazine, probably Vol 1, #2, as showing "young [[Peter Glawson]] on the Gulf Coast of Texas with his Uncle Terry (middle) and an unknown adult friend."<br />
<br />
One of the earliest appearances of Billy Byars' Lyric Studios upon the gay "physique magazine" scene in California appeared in the October 1965 issue of "Muscle Teens" magazine published by Y.P. Productions. This issue featured photographs of various nude teen males including the soon to be famous 15 year old "Terry Stuart".[http://www.timinvermont.com]<br />
<br />
In almost all of Lyrics' magazines, Byars would give each specific issue a "title" and include a mostly ficticious "storyline" about the photos included. In one particular issue that featured the Lyric boys swimming, naked as usual, at the Mulholland Drive home, Byars wrote about the Lyric boys "...visiting Uncle Terry and Uncle Bill..." at their home for a summer swim.[needs source]<br />
<br />
Summers's quote of Smith on the use of "Uncle" in nicknames [Summers, p. 378] argues against presuming that Terry is actually uncle to Mr. Glawson or to anyone else. There is no "Terry" in the list of those arrested, and no "Terry" in the extensive credits of ''The Genesis Children''.<br />
<br />
Three of the others accused with Mr. Byars in the 1973 case were also said to be from Hollywood. All three are roughly ten years younger than Byars. At least one of them was acquitted at trial in 1973. All are possible candidates for "Terry", but "Terry" could well be someone else, or merely a figure of rumour.<br />
<br />
==The scandal==<br />
<br />
Lyric came to an end in late 1973, in a scandal that the [Meese Commission] later called "the first [[child pornography]] ring ... brought to public view." (Attorney General's Commission on Pornography (1986) PART 3: Law Enforcement Recommendations. Chapter 3, paragraph 5 [http://www.porn-report.com/303-child-pornography-law-recommendations.htm].<br />
<br />
The ''Los Angeles Times'' article about the arrests was titled "14 Men Indicted in Sex Movies Featuring Boys Ages 6 to 17: Son of Actress, Heir to Oil Fortune, [[YMCA]] Counselor, Scoutmaster, Schoolteacher Among Those Facing Charges". [Los Angeles Times Oct 27, 1973, p. B1] <br />
<br />
The "Heir to Oil Fortune" was Lyric's owner, and the "Son of Actress" a Lyric producer. As the policy of the ''Los Angeles Times'' was then to not index criminal justice proceedings, it used to be difficult to determine just what happened to the fourteen accused.<br />
<br />
Those newspaper archives with full-text indexing are now available online, however. A later story confirms that the first of the accused to go to trial ("YMCA Counselor") was acquitted after a full day of jury deliberation, and that two others had pled guilty.<br />
<br />
[http://web.archive.org/web/20070630160500/http://www.boywiki.org/wiki/Guy_Strait Guy Strait], though among the first two arrested in the case, jumped bail and was never brought to trial on the Los Angeles charges. <br />
<br />
While the Meese Commission and the ''Los Angeles Times'' both refer to films of child pornography, the news article says that the accused were charged not with child pornography, but with molesting children. It says "One confiscated film shows the boys playing nude on a beach believed to be near Corpus Christi." Lyric did produce such a film, ''Summer Freedom'', but a film of "boys playing nude on a beach" is neither pornography nor illegal in this jurisdiction.<br />
<br />
One source claims that one of the boys was "dangled over a cliff" by policemen until he agreed to name men he had had sex with [http://web.archive.org/web/20070630160500/http://www.paedosexualitaet.de/exp/cliffsrc.html].<br />
<br />
The claim was apparently made in open court. The Lyric producer cited above also says that two of the accusers "were just hustlers the police had dug up to testify two of them were just hustlers the police had dug up ... they had worked for Lyric a good little while ago. Even the police didn't push their stories too much, because they were both well into their teens and they admitted they were willing participants." <br />
<br />
The Los Angeles scandal was fueled in part by the August 1973 discovery of the murders in Houston, Texas, by Dean Corll of at least 27 teenagers. The police insinuated to the press that the Lyric scandal might have a connection. Lyric's owner was originally from Texas; another of those arrested in the case was identified by the ''L.A. Times'' as "W.J., 55, a Houston photographer".<br />
<br />
Lloyd Martin, the policeman most responsible for the arrests, constructed a national reputation as the "child abuse policeman". He later fell into discredit. Widespread criticism of him and his methods is easily found on the Internet. Martin's signature sound bite is that child abuse is "worse than homicide." One Salon article calls him "infamous" and provides a good general discussion of the exaggerations of child pornography foes [http://archive.salon.com/mwt/feature/2000/01/31/kincaid/index1.html].<br />
<br />
==Technical quality of the films==<br />
<br />
Pfeiffer is said to have filmed the Lyric movies in 16mm, and reduced them to 8mm for distribution. Guy Strait, who handled the distribution end of DOM-LYRIC, recounted in prison his techniques for avoiding piracy of his films. Part of his 70s era copy-protection technology was to reduce the quality of his 8mm commercial products to the point that reproductions would not be of salable quality. (Clifford L. Linedecker,''Children in Chains'' 1981)<br />
<br />
The pool with the cinderblock walls which appears in many Lyric shorts changed over time: the diving board was removed, and the walls repainted. In some films the cinderblock walls appear to be black or purplish, but still photos taken at the same time, or perhaps printed from a frame of the 16mm negative, show the walls to be royal blue. The video files that circulate on the Internet and the DVDs available commercially may have been made from old or deteriorated 8mm films.<br />
<br />
==Books, magazines, and films==<br />
<br />
''The Genesis Children'' was Lyric's only feature film, its other movies being shorts produced in 16mm and reduced to 8mm for distribution. Some of the films are:<br />
* ''Danish Boys' Camp''. Feature documentary. 1971. Producer: Billy Byars. Editor: Wayne Schotten<br />
* ''Swim Party'' and ''Spring Break'' were filmed by Slim Pfeiffer at the pool with the cinderblock walls at the Lyric studio in Los Angeles.<br />
* ''Sandy Hill'' may have been filmed in Sandy Hill in east Texas.<br />
* ''Summer Freedom'' was made at Corpus Christi National Seashore in Texas.<br />
* ''Peter and the Desert Riders''<br />
* ''How to Make Friends''<br />
<br />
Lyric produced a number of magazines (two authors, Robin Lloyd and Clifford Linedecker, say 90 magazines were produced, but neither cites his source for the figure) and at least one calendar.<br />
<br />
Some of the magazine titles include:<br />
<br />
* ''Naked Boyhood Magazine''<br />
* ''Sun Children''<br />
* ''Lyric's American Boys''<br />
* ''Naked Teens''<br />
* ''Coq d'Or''<br />
<br />
[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Censorship]][[Category:Gay]][[Category:Child Pornography]][[Category:Art]][[Category:Youth]][[Category:TV & Media]][[Category:Law/Crime]][[Category:Law/Crime: American]]<br />
[[Category:History & Events]][[Category:History & Events: American]][[Category:History & Events: 1970s]][[Category:History & Events: Real Crime]][[Category:History & Events: Personal Scandals]][[Category:Publications & Documents]][[Category:Pubs: Books]][[Category:Pubs: Magazines & Newspapers]]</div>Citizen 2416https://www.newgon.net/wiki/index.php?title=Andreas_Embiricos&diff=2150Andreas Embiricos2008-10-25T10:50:11Z<p>Citizen 2416: minor text corrections</p>
<hr />
<div>'''Andreas Embiricos''' (1901-1975) was a Greek writer, psychoanalyst and photographer.<br />
<br />
Embiricos was born in Raila, Romania by Greek parents and raised in Athens. After taking some time in the business ventures of his family in ship broking, he moved to Paris where he lived between 1926 and 1931 and met with Andre Breton and his surrealist circle. He published several collections of surrealist writings (poetry and prose): ''Ypsikaminos'' ("Blast-Furnace" 1935), ''Endochora'' ("Hinterland" 1945), ''Grapta, e Prosopike mythologia'' ("Writings, or Personal Mythology" 1960) and ''Argo, e plous aerostatou'' ("Argo, or the Voyage of a Balloon" 1964-65). Most of his works, however, including his sex-themed eight-volume novel ''O Megas Anatolikos'' ("The Great Eastern") appeared posthumously.<br />
<br />
In parallel with his career as a writer, he began practicing in Greece the profession of psychoanalyst after he was accredited by the French Psychoanalytic Association, continuously until 1951. Embiricos also took an interest in photography and made his first retrospective exhibition in 1965 in Athens.<br />
<br />
In 2001 the Greek Ministry of Culture to commemorate 100 years from Embiricos birth, declared that year as "The Year of Andreas Embiricos" and sponsored a number of events in Greece and abroad including public lectures about ''The Great Eastern'' and the publication of a collection of photographs titled ''Fotofraktes'' ("Shutter" 2001).<br />
<br />
==The Great Eastern==<br />
<br />
''The Great Eastern'' is Embiricos ''magnum opus'' novel, written in the 1940s and developed during the next decades as he read parts of the manuscripts to enthusiastic friends.<br />
<br />
The novel accounts for the sexual goings in "The Great Eastern", a steamship leaving England for the New World. In ''The Great Eastern'' all Embiricos' fantasies, doctrines and visions are developed under a formally polished style and archaic language. Full of literary references, his transgressive writting, which could put Marquis de Sade to shame, develops in several episodes of multi-level narrative which features all the sexual taboos of his era including [[homosexuality]], interacial sex, bestiality, sado-masochism and all four variants (man/boy, man/girl, woman/boy and woman/girl) of [[pedophilia]].<br />
<br />
Embiricos must have based the characters of ''The Great Eastern'' on people he met during in his experience as a psychoanalyst but also, as his correspondence reveals, in his study of sexual histories sexological books. From his research, Embiricos knew well what went on in the sexual underground across Europe and the episodes in ''Great Eastern'' even sometimes parodically hilarious or exaggerated, do not sound completely unbelievable.<br />
<br />
Embiricos himself wrote one a note that he would like to see ''The Great Eastern'' published after his death uncensored. His only compromise would be the use of a pseudonym to avoid implications to his family. Nevertheless, his family which owns his estate decided to publish it using his real name. The work, based on the unfinished manuscripts which Embricos continuously re-edited to his death, came out in eight volumes by Agra Publications in Athens between 1990 and 1992 and surprisingly, given its content, there was little, if any, controversy. Surely Greece's literary community unanimous endorsment and praise of the work as great fiction must have helped.<br />
<br />
Even though the eight volume work is primarily preoccupied with heterosexual practices and [[girllove|man/girl pedophilia]], the book is of particular interest of [[boylovers]] in Greece, since there are several instances of sex between men and [[boy]]s. Consider the following extracts, originally written by Embricos in English (which does not do justice to the stylish Greek language used in most of the book) about a woman secretly reading the narrative of a diary:<br />
<br />
<blockquote>"The well-known novelist (he was a man of about 60), who has just read a letter delivered by a good-looking messenger boy of about 13 years old, was asking the boy his name and how old he was and telling him he thought he looked very handsome." (Vol. 3, Part 6, Chapter 65, pp. 71-72)</blockquote><br />
<br />
The man makes a sexual advance offering to pay the boy an extra half a crown. The boy reluctantly accepts the offer and...<br />
<br />
<blockquote>"Mr. Lingham drewn his gently between his open legs, as he sat there in a comfortable armchair, and unbuttoning without much ado the boy's fly, he took out of the trousers a pretty young prick absolutely white and absolutely hairless, taking care to take out as well the boy's balls which seemed to have the size of two almonds, before one peels off their shells." (Vol. 3, Part 6, Chapter 65, p. 73)</blockquote><br />
<br />
...and then he continues with five full pages describing a scene of mutual masturbation and the man performing oral sex to the boy, whom ejaculates three times.<br />
<br />
==Photography==<br />
<br />
As noted, Embiricos was also a prolific photographer. His early work includes surrealistic images of masks and other objects while he later concentrated in portaiture and street photography. An important and much acclaimed aspect of his photographic work regards his candid and often erotic pictures of little [[girl]]s. His contemporaries, like Nobelist poet Odysseas Elytis wrote favorable of this fascination of his while his photography of little girls has often been compared to that of [[Lewis Caroll]] (of the ''Alice'' fame). Embriricos also took many pictures of boys, some of them in the nude, that, nevertheless, were never erotic (an example of which can be found at ''Fotofraktes'' collection).<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
<br />
[http://www.embiricos2001.gr Official "Embiricos 2001" website] by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and the National Book Centre of Greece.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:People]][[Category:People: Greek]][[Category:People: Popular Authors]][[Category:People: Artists and Poets]][[Category:People: Deceased]][[Category:History & Events]][[Category:History & Events: 1990s]]</div>Citizen 2416https://www.newgon.net/wiki/index.php?title=Andreas_Embiricos&diff=2149Andreas Embiricos2008-10-25T10:42:20Z<p>Citizen 2416: from boywiki</p>
<hr />
<div>'''Andreas Embiricos''' (1901-1975) was a Greek writer, psychoanalyst and photographer.<br />
<br />
Embiricos was born in Raila, Romania by Greek parents and raised in Athens. After taking some time in the business ventures of his family in ship broking, he moved in Paris where he lived between 1926 and 1931 and met with Andre Breton and his surrealist circle. He published several collections of surrealist writings (poetry and proze): ''Ypsikaminos'' ("Blast-Furnace" 1935), ''Endochora'' ("Hinterland" 1945), ''Grapta, e Prosopike mythologia'' ("Writings, or Personal Mythology" 1960) and ''Argo, e plous aerostatou'' ("Argo, or the Voyage of a Balloon" 1964-65). Most of his works, however, including his sex-themed eight-volume novel ''O Megas Anatolikos'' ("The Great Eastern") appeared posthumously.<br />
<br />
In parallel with his career as a writer, he began practicing in Greece the profession of psychoanalyst after he was accredited by the French Psychoanalytic Association, continuously until 1951. Embiricos also took an interest in photography and made his first retrospective exhibition in 1965 in Athens.<br />
<br />
In 2001 the Greek Ministry of Culture to commemorate 100 years from Embiricos birth, declared that year as "The Year of Andreas Embiricos" and sponsored a number of events in Greece and abroad including public lectures about ''The Great Eastern'' and the publication of a collection of photographs titled ''Fotofraktes'' ("Shutter" 2001).<br />
<br />
==The Great Eastern==<br />
<br />
''The Great Eastern'' is Embiricos ''magnum opus'' novel, written in the 1940s and developed during the next decades as he read parts of the manuscripts to enthusiastic friends.<br />
<br />
The novel accounts for the sexual goings in "The Great Eastern", a steamship leaving England for the New World. In ''The Great Eastern'' all Embiricos' fantasies, doctrines and visions are developed under a formally polished style and archaic language. Full of literary references, his transgressive writting, which could put Marquis de Sade to shame, developes in several episodes of multi-level narrative which features all the sexual taboos of his era including [[homosexuality]], interacial sex, bestiality, sado-masochism and all four variants (man/boy, man/girl, woman/boy and woman/girl) of [[pedophilia]].<br />
<br />
Embiricos must have based the characters of ''The Great Eastern'' people he met during in his experience as a psychoanalyst but also, as his correspondence reveals, in his study of sexual histories sexological books. From his research, Embiricos knew well what went on in the sexual underground across Europe and the episodes in ''Great Eastern'' even sometimes parodically hillarious or exaggerated, do not sound completely unbelievable.<br />
<br />
Embiricos himself wrote one a note that he would like to see ''The Great Eastern'' published after his death uncensored. His only compromise would be the use of a pseudonym to avoid implications to his family. Nevertheless, his family which owns his estate decided to publish it using his real name. The work, based on the unfinished manuscripts which Embricos continuously re-edited to his death, came out in eight volumes by Agra Publications in Athens between 1990 and 1992 and surprisingly, given its content, there was little, if any, controversy. Surely Greece's literary community unanimous endorsment and praise of the work as great fiction must have helpted.<br />
<br />
Even though the eight volume work is primarily preocuppied with heterosexual practices and [[girllove|man/girl pedophilia]], the book is of particular interest of [[boylovers]] in Greece, since there are several instances of sex between men and boys. Consider the following extracts, originally written by Embricos in English (which does not do justice to the stylish Greek language used in most of the book) about a woman secretly reading the narrative of a diary:<br />
<br />
<blockquote>"The well-known novelist (he was a man of about 60), who has just read a letter delivered by a good-looking messenger boy of about 13 years old, was asking the boy his name and how old he was and telling him he thought he looked very handsome." (Vol. 3, Part 6, Chapter 65, pp. 71-72)</blockquote><br />
<br />
The man makes a sexual advance offering to pay the boy an extra half a crown. The boy reluctantly accepts the offer and...<br />
<br />
<blockquote>"Mr. Lingham drewn his gently between his open legs, as he sat there in a comfortable armchair, and unbuttoning without much ado the boy's fly, he took out of the trousers a pretty young prick absolutely white and absolutely hairless, taking care to take out as well the boy's balls which seemed to have the size of two almonds, before one peels off their shells." (Vol. 3, Part 6, Chapter 65, p. 73)</blockquote><br />
<br />
...and then he continues with five full pages describing a scene of mutual masturbation and the man performing oral sex to the boy, whom ejaculates three times.<br />
<br />
==Photography==<br />
<br />
As noted, Embiricos was also a prolific photographer. His early work includes surrealistic images of masks and other objects while he later concentrated in portaiture and street photography. An important and much acclaimed aspect of his photographic work regards his candid and often erotic pictures of little [[girl]]s. His contemporaries, like Nobelist poet Odysseas Elytis wrote favorable of this fascination of his while his photography of little girls has often been compared to that of Lewis Caroll (of the ''Alice'' fame). Embriricos also took many pictures of boys, some of them in the nude, that, nevertheless, were never erotic (an example of which can be found at ''Fotofraktes'' collection).<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
<br />
[http://www.embiricos2001.gr/ Official "Embiricos 2001" website] by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and the National Book Centre of Greece.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:People]][[Category:People: Greek]][[Category:People: Popular Authors]][[Category:People: Artists and Poets]][[Category:People: Deceased]][[Category:History & Events]][[Category:History & Events: 1990s]]</div>Citizen 2416https://www.newgon.net/wiki/index.php?title=Electronic_Frontier_Foundation&diff=2148Electronic Frontier Foundation2008-10-25T09:33:18Z<p>Citizen 2416: multi blockquote</p>
<hr />
<div>The '''Electronic Frontier Foundation''' ('''EFF''') is a non-profit organisation, which was founded in July 1990 to defend free speech on the internet.<br />
<br />
Their mission statement is as follows:<br />
<br />
<blockquote>"If America's founding fathers had anticipated the digital frontier, there would be a clause in the Constitution protecting your rights online, as well."</blockquote><br />
<br />
<blockquote>"Instead, a modern group of freedom fighters was necessary to extend the original vision into the digital world."</blockquote><br />
<br />
<blockquote>"That's where the Electronic Frontier Foundation comes in."</blockquote><br />
<br />
<blockquote>"Just as Patriots fought for liberty and freedom, we fight measures that threaten basic human rights. Only the dominion we defend is the vast wealth of digital information, innovation, and technology that resides online."</blockquote><br />
<br />
<blockquote>"The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a group of passionate people — lawyers, technologists, volunteers, and visionaries — working in the trenches, battling to protect your rights and the rights of web surfers everywhere. The dedicated people of EFF challenge legislation that threatens to put a price on what is invaluable; to control what must remain boundless."</blockquote><br />
<br />
<blockquote>"Electronic Frontier Foundation: Because being able to share ideas and information is the reason the Web was created in the first place!"</blockquote><br />
<br />
The site has a great deal of archived information and is well worth a visit.<br />
<br />
EFF was an initial funder for onion router Tor and continues to host the project's website.<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
<br />
* [http://www.eff.org Electronic Frontier Foundation]<br />
<br />
==See also==<br />
<br />
*[[Censorship]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Organisations]][[Category:Organisations: Web-based]][[Category:Organisations: International]][[Category:Organisations: American]][[Category:Organisations: Sympathetic]][[Category:Websites]][[Category:Websites: Sympathetic]]</div>Citizen 2416https://www.newgon.net/wiki/index.php?title=Electronic_Frontier_Foundation&diff=2147Electronic Frontier Foundation2008-10-25T09:23:03Z<p>Citizen 2416: from boywiki</p>
<hr />
<div>The '''Electronic Frontier Foundation''' ('''EFF''') is a non-profit organisation, which was founded in July 1990 to defend free speech on the internet.<br />
<br />
Their mission statement is as follows:<br />
<br />
<blockquote><br />
"If America's founding fathers had anticipated the digital frontier, there would be a clause in the Constitution protecting your rights online, as well."<br />
<br />
"Instead, a modern group of freedom fighters was necessary to extend the original vision into the digital world."<br />
<br />
"That's where the Electronic Frontier Foundation comes in."<br />
<br />
"Just as Patriots fought for liberty and freedom, we fight measures that threaten basic human rights. Only the dominion we defend is the vast wealth of digital information, innovation, and technology that resides online."<br />
<br />
"The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a group of passionate people — lawyers, technologists, volunteers, and visionaries — working in the trenches, battling to protect your rights and the rights of web surfers everywhere. The dedicated people of EFF challenge legislation that threatens to put a price on what is invaluable; to control what must remain boundless."<br />
<br />
"Electronic Frontier Foundation: Because being able to share ideas and information is the reason the Web was created in the first place!"<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
The site has a great deal of archived information and is well worth a visit.<br />
<br />
EFF was an initial funder for onion router Tor and continues to host the project's website.<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
<br />
* [http://www.eff.org Electronic Frontier Foundation]<br />
<br />
==See also==<br />
<br />
*[[Censorship]]<br />
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<div>'''Billy Byars, Jr.''' (1936-), owner of Lyric International, producer of ''The Genesis Children'', partner to pornographer Guy Strait, friend of J. Edgar Hoover, key figure in "the first [[child pornography]] ring ... brought to public view", perpetual footnote in Kennedy assassination theories, is a fascinating figure. And also a public figure, which permits his discussion here. Mr. Byars is of primary interest here as the owner of Lyric. Many of Lyric's reputedly 90 magazines and many movies still circulate on the Internet. Photographed by Harlan 'Slim' Pfeiffer, many were filmed in Mr. Byars's home - also the Lyric studio - and around ''the pool with the cinderblock walls'' in his backyard. While Lyric's films featured extensive nudity of [[boy]]s and young men, Lyric produced only "physique" photography and never pornography. However, two of the "Lyric boys" who played around Byars's pool later found their way into the bed - or at least the limousine - of the Director of the FBI.<br />
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==Adopted with a silver spoon in his mouth==<br />
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Billy Goebel Byars, Jr. was born in Texas in August, 1936 and adopted through the Edna Gladney Foundation in Fort Worth by oil man Billy Byars, Sr. and his wife, Emily.[Viola Hegyi Swisher, "Generating ''The Genesis Children''", ''After Dark'', September 1972, p. 18].<br />
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While his birth certificate says "William G. Byars" and newspapers reports on the Lyric scandal, when he was out of the country, call him "William", when he is able to give his own name, and in other legal papers, he is always "Billy". His father is "Billy" on his death certificate.<br />
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The 1941 movie ''Blossoms in the Dust'' [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033407] highlighted the accomplishments of Edna Gladney, two of which are important to the story of Billy Byars, Jr. In 1936 Edna Gladney succeeded in having the Texas legislature pass a bill to have children registered as the children of their adoptive parents, removing the stigma of illegitimacy. Byars was one of the earliest beneficiaries of this law. In 1951, again at the instignation of Gladney, Texas law was changed to give adopted children the same inheritance rights as biological children.[http://www.adoptionsbygladney.com/html/about/history.php]<br />
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That same year the Byars family adopted Billy, they purchased a large corner lot in Tyler, Texas, and in 1937 built a two story house in the Monterey style. The scale of the house was sumptuous for the midst of the Depression: brick and frame construction with three baths, a three-car garage and a servants room with a bath. The house was enlarged to 5,000 square feet in the 1940s, and Byars's parents resided for the rest of their lives. There was a Steinway grand piano in the living room, and parties that included such guests as Ronald Reagan. [http://www.historictyler.org/spring_tour/tour_2004/summers_2004]<br />
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Tyler is in the eastern, green part of Texas, the closest major city being Shreveport, Louisiana.<br />
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Byars is quoted as describing his mother "an elegant but colorful woman" of Irish descent. [Swisher, ''supra''] The family businesses included not only oil, but the Byars Royal Oaks Farm in Tyler, where the elder Byars bred champion cattle. [http://eisenhowermemorial.org/presidential-papers/first-term/documents/1101.cfm] The Byars family includes a sister who continued raising cattle [Swisher, ''supra''] and in 2003 there were still Byars breeding champion cattle.<br />
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Billy Jr. was also fond of telling people that his biological parents were of Russian royalty, however local Tyler, Texas residents contend he was the son of a coffee shop waitress and a lonesome trucker.[Interview. Anthony Aikman-2006 by Ballog] [Anthony Summers, Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1993]<br />
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Although Billy Jr. would often tell people he held various degrees and was a molecular biologist, in truth he only attended MIT for one semester from Sept. 16, 1954 - January 7, 1955 and held no college degree. [MIT Registrar - 2006] After dropping out of college, Billy reportedly had a falling out with his father regarding his [[homosexuality]] and left his Texas home.[Interview: Anthony Aikman-2006 by Ballog] Apparently, Billy and his father somewhat reconciled their differences and in the early 1960s, in his mid twenties, he was still joining his father for annual vacations at Clint Murchison's Del Charo Hotel in San Diego, where they often took the bungalow next to J. Edgar Hoover's.[Anthony Summers, ''Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover''. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1993, p. 337]<br />
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==At the summit in Los Angeles==<br />
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Billy Byars, Sr. died in 1965. Presumably Billy, Jr. received an inheritance, and by 1968 was already installed in California. "His bachelor pad in the Hollywood hills boasts massive oaken beams and other touches of baronial elegance," according to a 1972 interviewer. [Swisher, ''supra''] Summers says that "Byars's house in Los Angeles, at the summit of Laurel Canyon, was for a while a haven for adult homosexuals and male teenagers." His friendship with J. Edgar Hoover continued, and he received at least one Christmas card from the FBI Director in the house on Mulholland Drive. [Summers, ''supra'']<br />
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Byars's life and Lyric's history are inseparable at this point. An examination of the Lyric catalog would clarify dates. Two of the Lyric films seem to have been produced in Texas, ''Summer Freedom'' supposedly shot on Padre Island Seashore near Corpus Christi, Texas, and ''Sandy Hill'', possibly in the town of that name north-west of Houston. Online sources say that the earliest photos of [[Peter Glawson]] are from the Texas gulf coast, while ''Sandy Hill'' features a Peter notably younger than in ''The Genesis Children'' or in photos taken at the house on Mulholland Drive. It would also be interesting to know how Byars's relationship with 'Slim' Pfeiffer began. Byars and Pfeiffer may have begun their photography in Texas.<br />
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Valerie Swisher, who interviewed Byars after ''The Genesis Children'' was released, describes him: "Molecular biologist Billy Byars came to movie making with a background in biophysics, bacteriology, protozoology, virology, geology, astronomy, mathematics, entomology and weight training. He also exercises great expertise at the racetrack and in Las Vegas, computing odds. In more orthodox veins, he's a painter, art photographer, camera expert and color connoisseur." [Swisher, ''supra'']. Summers, more concise, calls Byars "a part-time filmmaker, fitness enthusiast, and dilettante".[Summers, ''op. cit.'', p. 377]<br />
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Swisher calls Byars a "tall Texan" and describes him as a "very forthright black sheep, acting always upon passionate private conviction and not out of hypocritical public pretense." [Swisher, ''supra'']<br />
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The ''After Dark'' interview includes a photo of Byars and the actor Vincent Child in Rome filming ''The Genesis Children''. After the photo has been reproduced in a magazine, the magazine microfilmed, and the microfilm laserprinted, it is possible to state that Byars is the same height as Childs, and that wearing dark glasses and a ten-gallon hat he looks very much like anyone else wearing dark glasses and a ten-gallon hat.<br />
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It seems safe to affirm that Byars was not unfamiliar with the seamier side of life in Los Angeles, or unacquainted with young men in the sex trade from the ''Gold Cup''.<br />
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==Photography of enduring quality==<br />
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However, according to a 1975 interview with a Lyric producer,<br />
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"Lyric had specialized in nude photos of models ranging from twelve to twenty years of age. As a physique photographer, Lyric had been out of business for several years, since Byars did not approve of doing hardcore photography and the market accepted little else, but the company name was being carried on as a producer of television travelogues." <br />
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Lyric's production occurred in a narrow window of time, when social mores had loosened sufficiently to permit the sort of naturist films it produced, but not enough to allow more explicit content. The same producer acknowledged that "Lyric had once been one of the biggest photographers in the business."<br />
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Mr. Byars himself was a sometime photographer. ''Zipper'' magazine, a Hollywood publication which billed itself as “Art/Entertainment For Men” included in its February 1972 issue the pictorial “Photographer of the Month: Billy Byars.”<br />
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Something more that being "one of the biggest" is needed to explain the frequency with which Lyric's films and photographs circulate even today. Perhaps it was the quality of Pfeiffer's photography, which transcends the genre, or the choice of models, or the beauty of the settings. Pfeiffer's camera captured a swimming pool full of splashing boys, high above Los Angeles and in the hazy distance the sea, and made those summer afternoons eternal.<br />
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==Byars and the Lyric boys==<br />
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It is difficult to determine just who the "Lyric boys" who appear in Lyric's films were, and the nature of their relationship with Mr. Byars. Possibly he merely considered that having a lot of naked teenagers about improved the view.<br />
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Peter Glawson appeared both in the early Texas films and the later California ones. An online source says<br />
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"I would say that he was totally straight and not a nudist but a 'financed boy' who was resident with an older person. He liked being looked at but I would doubt that he was that keen on looking. He was brought into the big city from the country and I would say that it was his practical nature rather than anything else that kept him there." [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.prettyboy/msg/9600bca3cb3239ce]<br />
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Various other posts confirm Mr. Glawson's heterosexual orientation. Others posts assert that a younger brother appeared in Lyric productions as "Maxey Adams". The family may have been originally from Texas.<br />
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One of Lyric's early magazines, ''Coq d'Or'', says "Peter rarely wears clothes around the studio." However, there is no reason to believe that Lyric's text about its models is any more factual than what Playboy prints about its models.<br />
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Robin Lloyd affirms in 1976 that a "Peter, a thirteen-year-old and one of Byars's favorites, still commands a high price in the chicken market."[Lloyd, Robin, ''For Money or Love: Boy Prostitution in America'', Ballantine Books, NY, 1976, p. 79] Lloyd's "Peter" may not be intended to be Peter Glawson, and even so on the same page Lloyd also claims that "One of Billy Byars's best sellers, Genesis Children, portrayed the "delights" of Guy Sommers, a boy ... imported from Hawaii". There is no "Guy Sommers" credited in that film, but Lloyd provides no footnotes or bibliography and cannot have envisioned that his readers would have access to something like IMDB. He also refers to "Guy Strait (probably not his real name)" without bothering to check.[Lloyd, p.77] It is the name Strait was born with. [Clifford L. Linedecker, Children in Chains, 1981, p.228] Online rumor seems reliable in comparison with Lloyd.<br />
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The previously cited Lyric producer did respond to questions about the Lyric boys, one of whom lived with him. He says that one of his accusers in the 1973 scandal "was the kid brother of a fellow that was living with me at the time. The older brother was just a beautiful boy, a really great guy, whom I had taken in because things were so rough for him at home-an alcoholic father, the whole bit." In response to the direct question, "The older brother was your lover, then?" he responded,<br />
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"Not in the classic sense, no. But that's what everybody assumed, and you can't stop people from making assumptions, you know. Everybody figured we had some wild affair going, and they couldn't understand why my girl friend at the time wasn't jealous-why she liked him too. But in reality we were just a family unit - no wild sex orgies or anything. But even the kid brother thought we were lovers, and he was kind of jealous that his brother was getting all the affection, and not him." <br />
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There is no reason to believe that the producer's houseguest and Peter Glawson were the same person.<br />
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Given widespread statements by those who knew him that the most prominent of the Lyric boys was straight, and the direct statement by someone at Lyric that one of the boys lived with him in a non-sexual family relationship, the minimum assumption is the most indicated: that the Lyric boys were merely part of the scenery at Mr. Byars's house.<br />
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==The next film==<br />
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There are several version of what Byars and Lyric were planning at the time of the scandal. In 1972 Swisher says,<br />
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"Byars's next film venture is an already filmed documentary he has titled ''The Russian Adventure''. It unreels as a story of the travels of an International Boyhood group, filmed not only in Russia, but elsewhere in Eastern Europe. Still in the early planning stages is a ballet feature to be filmed in the desert. Nude. Of course."[Swisher, ''op. cit.'']<br />
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The ''L.A. Times'' article about the arrests described Lyric's current project as "''Soviet '73'', a film about Jews traveling in Russia." [''L.A. Times, op. cit.''] The Lyric producer claimed in 1975 that, "We had a tremendous amount of money sunk into a major TV travelogue on Russia just then." The recurring Russian theme indicates all three sources are discussing the same project. There are several possible explanations for the contradictions:<br />
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* Byars's plans may have changed after ''The Genesis Children'' flopped at the box office. Permission to film in Russia may have been difficult to obtain in the early 1970s, and rather than abandon permits and contacts already in place, it may be Lyric decided to film something else.<br />
* Byars may have tilted his interview with Swisher, who was primarily a dance writer, to her interests. He twice describes his film sequences as "ballet" when speaking to Swisher, while elsewhere he prefers the term "symphony". Also, when pushing one's current films, it may be inadvisable to indicate that one has abandoned that line for something completely different.<br />
* Just how the L.A. Times or the police would know of Lyric's plans is unclear, and the reporting may be unreliable. Perhaps only in Los Angeles does one include in an arrest report the suspects' plans for their next movie.<br />
* Lyric may have been planning to make two films at the same time, during the same trip: one for television, and one for DOM-LYRIC. <br />
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==The Scandal==<br />
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Lyric came to an end in late 1973, in a scandal that the Meese Commission later called "the first child pornography ring ... brought to public view." (Attorney General's Commission on Pornography (1986) PART 3: Law Enforcement Recommendations. Chapter 3, paragraph 5 [9]. ''The Los Angeles Times'' article about the arrests was titled "14 Men Indicted in Sex Movies Featuring Boys Ages 6 to 17: Son of Actress, Heir to Oil Fortune, YMCA Counselor, Scoutmaster, Schoolteacher Among Those Facing Charges". [''Los Angeles Times'' Oct 27, 1973, p. B1]<br />
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The "Heir to Oil Fortune" was Billy Byars, Jr. and the "Son of Actress" a Lyric producer. As the policy of the ''Los Angeles Times'' was then to not index criminal justice proceedings, it is difficult to determine just what happened to the fourteen accused. A later story confirms that the first of the accused to go to trial ("YMCA Counselor") was acquitted after a full day of jury deliberation, and that two others had pled guilty. A jury deliberated four days before convicting D.M.Y, accused on nine counts, although one of the two thirteen-year-old victims testified that he had been dangled over a cliff by two policemen who insisted he name men with whom he had had sex. (Lloyd, ''supra'', p. 151) also [http://web.archive.org/web/20070629205045/http://www.paedosexualitaet.de/exp/cliffsrc.html]. The defendant in that case received a $500 fine.[''L.A. Times'', May 31, 1974, p. E4. Online summary only consulted]<br />
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While the Meese commission and the ''Los Angeles Times'' both refer to films of child pornography, the news article says that the accused were charged not with child pornography, but with molesting children. It says "One confiscated film shows the boys playing nude on a beach believed to be near Corpus Christi." Lyric did produce such a film, ''Summer Freedom'' but perhaps no charges were filed based on the film because it was not pornographic under California law.<br />
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Two of the accusers<br />
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"... were just hustlers the police had dug up ... they had worked for Lyric a good little while ago. Even the police didn't push their stories too much, because they were both well into their teens and they admitted they were willing participants." <br />
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The Los Angeles scandal was fueled in part by the 1973 murders in Houston, Texas, by Dean Corll of at least 27 teenagers. The police insinuated to the press that the Lyric scandal might have a connection. Lyric's owner was originally from Texas; another of those arrested in the case was identified by the ''L.A. Times'' as "W.J., a Houston photographer".<br />
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Some of the accusations are puzzling and inconsistent. While the headline says the men were "Indicted in Sex Movies" the text says "the indictments do not charge anyone with making obscene films." Guy Strait was arrested, as well as another man, D.M.Y, called "a major competitor of Strait in the distribution of homosexual films" [''L.A. Times, supra'']. How a "ring" can be formed by competitors is not explained. While that's certainly possible in price-fixing, that is not mentioned as a concern in the episode.<br />
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[[Lloyd Martin]], the policeman most responsible for the arrests, constructed a national reputation as the "child abuse policeman". He later fell into discredit. Widespread criticism of him and his methods is easily found on the Internet. Martin's signature sound bite is that child abuse is "worse than homicide." One ''Salon'' article calls him "infamous" and provides a good general discussion of the exaggerations of child pornography foes [http://archive.salon.com/mwt/feature/2000/01/31/kincaid/index1.html].<br />
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Byars's old friend J. Edgar Hoover had died in May, 1972.<br />
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==Fortunes Restored?==<br />
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Mr. Byars was out of the country at the time of the scandal. Robin Lloyd claimed in 1976 that "As soon as the heat was on, Byars fled to Europe to avoid prosecution. He is presumably there today and will probably stay, since there are at least four outstanding felony warrants for his arrest in this country."[Lloyd, p. 78] The Lyric producer, however, says that after Strait's arrest he spoke with friends in the police and was told there was no cause for concern. He at least did not feel "the heat was on". Summers says that, "Byars was by then abroad, reportedly in Morocco, and stayed out of the United States for many years to come."[Summers, ''op. cit.'', p. 377] The implication is that he had returned by the time Summers interviewed him in 1988.<br />
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While Swisher refers to Byars's mother in the past tense, Texas public records show that Emily Byars died on December 30, 1979 [http://vitals.rootsweb.ancestry.com/tx/death/search.cgi]. Byars's sister purchased the family home from the estate. [http://www.historictyler.org/spring_tour/tour_2004/summers_2004] That would imply that there were other heirs, presumably Billy Byars, Jr.<br />
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The house in the Hollywood hills that served as Byars's home and as the Lyric studio was last sold on 12/01/1988 for $600,000. [http://www.zillow.com/homes/map/8207-mulholland-drive_lb/los-angeles-ca_rb/] Whether Byars was the seller would be available in Los Angeles public records, but isn't online.<br />
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So whatever harm may have been done to his finances by ''The Genesis Children'', it's safe to assume he inherited another chunk of a Texas-sized fortune, and this after a decade that had been good to oil money. Fifteen years older and presumably wiser, he may have held onto it. Certainly he has not since cut as wide as swath as he did in the halcyon years of Lyric International.<br />
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==Kennedy Assassination Conspiracy==<br />
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Summers shows through numerous details how very well the Byars, father and son, knew Hoover. The afternoon of President Kennedy's death, J. Edgar Hoover phoned three people: the Attorney General, the head of the Secret Service, and Billy Byars, Sr. [Summers, ''supra'', p. 329]<br />
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One statement by Billy Byars, Jr., is frequently repeated by conspiracy theorists. Byars related to Summers a conversation at the Del Charro during the summer of 1964 or 1965.<br />
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"I asked him, 'Do you think Lee Harvey Oswald did it?' And he stopped and looked at me for quite a long time. Then he said, "If I told you what I really know, it would be very dangerous to this country. Our whole political system could be disrupted.' That's all he said, and I could see he wasn't going to say any more." [Summers, supra, p. 330]. <br />
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Usually when this quote is cited online Byars, Jr. is described as "teenage", but he would have been in his late twenties.<br />
[edit] Common Errors<br />
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Several errors are frequent in online information about Byars.<br />
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* The most common is spelling his name as "Byers".<br />
* The next common is describing his mother as an actress. While the headline in the 1973 scandal referred to "Heir to Oil Fortune" and "Son of Actress", "son of actress" was in fact someone else, a Lyric producer.<br />
* Lastly, More & Co. of San Francisco, in their magazine More Children #1 identified one of the models as "Billy Byars, Jr." This is probably a competitor tweaking Lyric. It is not plausible that the son of a wealthy Texan was posing for nude photos in San Francisco. Byars's 1936 birth doesn't match up, either.<br />
* Online searches find a William G Byars, Jr who died on June 15, 1997 in Pottsboro, Texas. But his date of birth is given as October 21, 1926, so presumably he's a different Byars.<br />
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[[Category:Countries and Cultures: Historical]][[Category:Child Pornography]][[Category:TV & Media]]</div>Citizen 2416https://www.newgon.net/wiki/index.php?title=Billy_Byars,_Jr.&diff=2143Billy Byars, Jr.2008-10-24T20:00:46Z<p>Citizen 2416: New page: '''Billy Byars, Jr.''' (1936-), owner of Lyric International, producer of ''The Genesis Children'', partner to pornographer Guy Strait, friend of J. Edgar Hoover, key figure in "the first ...</p>
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<div>'''Billy Byars, Jr.''' (1936-), owner of Lyric International, producer of ''The Genesis Children'', partner to pornographer Guy Strait, friend of J. Edgar Hoover, key figure in "the first [[child pornography]] ring ... brought to public view", perpetual footnote in Kennedy assassination theories, is a fascinating figure. And also a public figure, which permits his discussion here. Mr. Byars is of primary interest here as the owner of Lyric. Many of Lyric's reputedly 90 magazines and many movies still circulate on the Internet. Photographed by Harlan 'Slim' Pfeiffer, many were filmed in Mr. Byars's home - also the Lyric studio - and around ''the pool with the cinderblock walls'' in his backyard. While Lyric's films featured extensive nudity of [[boy]]s and young men, Lyric produced only "physique" photography and never pornography. However, two of the "Lyric boys" who played around Byars's pool later found their way into the bed - or at least the limousine - of the Director of the FBI.<br />
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==Adopted with a silver spoon in his mouth==<br />
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Billy Goebel Byars, Jr. was born in Texas in August, 1936 and adopted through the Edna Gladney Foundation in Fort Worth by oil man Billy Byars, Sr. and his wife, Emily.[Viola Hegyi Swisher, "Generating ''The Genesis Children''", ''After Dark'', September 1972, p. 18].<br />
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While his birth certificate says "William G. Byars" and newspapers reports on the Lyric scandal, when he was out of the country, call him "William", when he is able to give his own name, and in other legal papers, he is always "Billy". His father is "Billy" on his death certificate.<br />
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The 1941 movie ''Blossoms in the Dust'' [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033407] highlighted the accomplishments of Edna Gladney, two of which are important to the story of Billy Byars, Jr. In 1936 Edna Gladney succeeded in having the Texas legislature pass a bill to have children registered as the children of their adoptive parents, removing the stigma of illegitimacy. Byars was one of the earliest beneficiaries of this law. In 1951, again at the instignation of Gladney, Texas law was changed to give adopted children the same inheritance rights as biological children.[http://www.adoptionsbygladney.com/html/about/history.php]<br />
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That same year the Byars family adopted Billy, they purchased a large corner lot in Tyler, Texas, and in 1937 built a two story house in the Monterey style. The scale of the house was sumptuous for the midst of the Depression: brick and frame construction with three baths, a three-car garage and a servants room with a bath. The house was enlarged to 5,000 square feet in the 1940s, and Byars's parents resided for the rest of their lives. There was a Steinway grand piano in the living room, and parties that included such guests as Ronald Reagan. [http://www.historictyler.org/spring_tour/tour_2004/summers_2004]<br />
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Tyler is in the eastern, green part of Texas, the closest major city being Shreveport, Louisiana.<br />
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Byars is quoted as describing his mother "an elegant but colorful woman" of Irish descent. [Swisher, ''supra''] The family businesses included not only oil, but the Byars Royal Oaks Farm in Tyler, where the elder Byars bred champion cattle. [http://eisenhowermemorial.org/presidential-papers/first-term/documents/1101.cfm] The Byars family includes a sister who continued raising cattle [Swisher, ''supra''] and in 2003 there were still Byars breeding champion cattle.<br />
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Billy Jr. was also fond of telling people that his biological parents were of Russian royalty, however local Tyler, Texas residents contend he was the son of a coffee shop waitress and a lonesome trucker.[Interview. Anthony Aikman-2006 by Ballog] [Anthony Summers, Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1993]<br />
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Although Billy Jr. would often tell people he held various degrees and was a molecular biologist, in truth he only attended MIT for one semester from Sept. 16, 1954 - January 7, 1955 and held no college degree. [MIT Registrar - 2006] After dropping out of college, Billy reportedly had a falling out with his father regarding his [[homosexuality]] and left his Texas home.[Interview: Anthony Aikman-2006 by Ballog] Apparently, Billy and his father somewhat reconciled their differences and in the early 1960s, in his mid twenties, he was still joining his father for annual vacations at Clint Murchison's Del Charo Hotel in San Diego, where they often took the bungalow next to J. Edgar Hoover's.[Anthony Summers, ''Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover''. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1993, p. 337]<br />
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==At the summit in Los Angeles==<br />
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Billy Byars, Sr. died in 1965. Presumably Billy, Jr. received an inheritance, and by 1968 was already installed in California. "His bachelor pad in the Hollywood hills boasts massive oaken beams and other touches of baronial elegance," according to a 1972 interviewer. [Swisher, ''supra''] Summers says that "Byars's house in Los Angeles, at the summit of Laurel Canyon, was for a while a haven for adult homosexuals and male teenagers." His friendship with J. Edgar Hoover continued, and he received at least one Christmas card from the FBI Director in the house on Mulholland Drive. [Summers, ''supra'']<br />
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Byars's life and Lyric's history are inseparable at this point. An examination of the Lyric catalog would clarify dates. Two of the Lyric films seem to have been produced in Texas, ''Summer Freedom'' supposedly shot on Padre Island Seashore near Corpus Christi, Texas, and ''Sandy Hill'', possibly in the town of that name north-west of Houston. Online sources say that the earliest photos of [[Peter Glawson]] are from the Texas gulf coast, while ''Sandy Hill'' features a Peter notably younger than in ''The Genesis Children'' or in photos taken at the house on Mulholland Drive. It would also be interesting to know how Byars's relationship with 'Slim' Pfeiffer began. Byars and Pfeiffer may have begun their photography in Texas.<br />
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Valerie Swisher, who interviewed Byars after ''The Genesis Children'' was released, describes him: "Molecular biologist Billy Byars came to movie making with a background in biophysics, bacteriology, protozoology, virology, geology, astronomy, mathematics, entomology and weight training. He also exercises great expertise at the racetrack and in Las Vegas, computing odds. In more orthodox veins, he's a painter, art photographer, camera expert and color connoisseur." [Swisher, ''supra'']. Summers, more concise, calls Byars "a part-time filmmaker, fitness enthusiast, and dilettante".[Summers, ''op. cit.'', p. 377]<br />
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Swisher calls Byars a "tall Texan" and describes him as a "very forthright black sheep, acting always upon passionate private conviction and not out of hypocritical public pretense." [Swisher, ''supra'']<br />
<br />
The ''After Dark'' interview includes a photo of Byars and the actor Vincent Child in Rome filming ''The Genesis Children''. After the photo has been reproduced in a magazine, the magazine microfilmed, and the microfilm laserprinted, it is possible to state that Byars is the same height as Childs, and that wearing dark glasses and a ten-gallon hat he looks very much like anyone else wearing dark glasses and a ten-gallon hat.<br />
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It seems safe to affirm that Byars was not unfamiliar with the seamier side of life in Los Angeles, or unacquainted with young men in the sex trade from the ''Gold Cup''.<br />
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==Photography of enduring quality==<br />
<br />
However, according to a 1975 interview with a Lyric producer,<br />
<br />
<blockquote><br />
"Lyric had specialized in nude photos of models ranging from twelve to twenty years of age. As a physique photographer, Lyric had been out of business for several years, since Byars did not approve of doing hardcore photography and the market accepted little else, but the company name was being carried on as a producer of television travelogues." <br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
Lyric's production occurred in a narrow window of time, when social mores had loosened sufficiently to permit the sort of naturist films it produced, but not enough to allow more explicit content. The same producer acknowledged that "Lyric had once been one of the biggest photographers in the business."<br />
<br />
Mr. Byars himself was a sometime photographer. ''Zipper'' magazine, a Hollywood publication which billed itself as “Art/Entertainment For Men” included in its February 1972 issue the pictorial “Photographer of the Month: Billy Byars.”<br />
<br />
Something more that being "one of the biggest" is needed to explain the frequency with which Lyric's films and photographs circulate even today. Perhaps it was the quality of Pfeiffer's photography, which transcends the genre, or the choice of models, or the beauty of the settings. Pfeiffer's camera captured a swimming pool full of splashing boys, high above Los Angeles and in the hazy distance the sea, and made those summer afternoons eternal.<br />
<br />
==Byars and the Lyric boys==<br />
<br />
It is difficult to determine just who the "Lyric boys" who appear in Lyric's films were, and the nature of their relationship with Mr. Byars. Possibly he merely considered that having a lot of naked teenagers about improved the view.<br />
<br />
Peter Glawson appeared both in the early Texas films and the later California ones. An online source says<br />
<br />
<blockquote><br />
"I would say that he was totally straight and not a nudist but a 'financed boy' who was resident with an older person. He liked being looked at but I would doubt that he was that keen on looking. He was brought into the big city from the country and I would say that it was his practical nature rather than anything else that kept him there." [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.prettyboy/msg/9600bca3cb3239ce]<br />
</blockquote> <br />
<br />
Various other posts confirm Mr. Glawson's heterosexual orientation. Others posts assert that a younger brother appeared in Lyric productions as "Maxey Adams". The family may have been originally from Texas.<br />
<br />
One of Lyric's early magazines, ''Coq d'Or'', says "Peter rarely wears clothes around the studio." However, there is no reason to believe that Lyric's text about its models is any more factual than what Playboy prints about its models.<br />
<br />
Robin Lloyd affirms in 1976 that a "Peter, a thirteen-year-old and one of Byars's favorites, still commands a high price in the chicken market."[Lloyd, Robin, ''For Money or Love: Boy Prostitution in America'', Ballantine Books, NY, 1976, p. 79] Lloyd's "Peter" may not be intended to be Peter Glawson, and even so on the same page Lloyd also claims that "One of Billy Byars's best sellers, Genesis Children, portrayed the "delights" of Guy Sommers, a boy ... imported from Hawaii". There is no "Guy Sommers" credited in that film, but Lloyd provides no footnotes or bibliography and cannot have envisioned that his readers would have access to something like IMDB. He also refers to "Guy Strait (probably not his real name)" without bothering to check.[Lloyd, p.77] It is the name Strait was born with. [Clifford L. Linedecker, Children in Chains, 1981, p.228] Online rumor seems reliable in comparison with Lloyd.<br />
<br />
The previously cited Lyric producer did respond to questions about the Lyric boys, one of whom lived with him. He says that one of his accusers in the 1973 scandal "was the kid brother of a fellow that was living with me at the time. The older brother was just a beautiful boy, a really great guy, whom I had taken in because things were so rough for him at home-an alcoholic father, the whole bit." In response to the direct question, "The older brother was your lover, then?" he responded,<br />
<br />
<blockquote><br />
"Not in the classic sense, no. But that's what everybody assumed, and you can't stop people from making assumptions, you know. Everybody figured we had some wild affair going, and they couldn't understand why my girl friend at the time wasn't jealous-why she liked him too. But in reality we were just a family unit - no wild sex orgies or anything. But even the kid brother thought we were lovers, and he was kind of jealous that his brother was getting all the affection, and not him." <br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
There is no reason to believe that the producer's houseguest and Peter Glawson were the same person.<br />
<br />
Given widespread statements by those who knew him that the most prominent of the Lyric boys was straight, and the direct statement by someone at Lyric that one of the boys lived with him in a non-sexual family relationship, the minimum assumption is the most indicated: that the Lyric boys were merely part of the scenery at Mr. Byars's house.<br />
<br />
==The next film==<br />
<br />
There are several version of what Byars and Lyric were planning at the time of the scandal. In 1972 Swisher says,<br />
<br />
<blockquote><br />
"Byars's next film venture is an already filmed documentary he has titled ''The Russian Adventure''. It unreels as a story of the travels of an International Boyhood group, filmed not only in Russia, but elsewhere in Eastern Europe. Still in the early planning stages is a ballet feature to be filmed in the desert. Nude. Of course."[Swisher, ''op. cit.'']<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
The ''L.A. Times'' article about the arrests described Lyric's current project as "''Soviet '73'', a film about Jews traveling in Russia." [''L.A. Times, op. cit.''] The Lyric producer claimed in 1975 that, "We had a tremendous amount of money sunk into a major TV travelogue on Russia just then." The recurring Russian theme indicates all three sources are discussing the same project. There are several possible explanations for the contradictions:<br />
<br />
* Byars's plans may have changed after ''The Genesis Children'' flopped at the box office. Permission to film in Russia may have been difficult to obtain in the early 1970s, and rather than abandon permits and contacts already in place, it may be Lyric decided to film something else.<br />
* Byars may have tilted his interview with Swisher, who was primarily a dance writer, to her interests. He twice describes his film sequences as "ballet" when speaking to Swisher, while elsewhere he prefers the term "symphony". Also, when pushing one's current films, it may be inadvisable to indicate that one has abandoned that line for something completely different.<br />
* Just how the L.A. Times or the police would know of Lyric's plans is unclear, and the reporting may be unreliable. Perhaps only in Los Angeles does one include in an arrest report the suspects' plans for their next movie.<br />
* Lyric may have been planning to make two films at the same time, during the same trip: one for television, and one for DOM-LYRIC. <br />
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==The Scandal==<br />
<br />
Lyric came to an end in late 1973, in a scandal that the Meese Commission later called "the first child pornography ring ... brought to public view." (Attorney General's Commission on Pornography (1986) PART 3: Law Enforcement Recommendations. Chapter 3, paragraph 5 [9]. ''The Los Angeles Times'' article about the arrests was titled "14 Men Indicted in Sex Movies Featuring Boys Ages 6 to 17: Son of Actress, Heir to Oil Fortune, YMCA Counselor, Scoutmaster, Schoolteacher Among Those Facing Charges". [''Los Angeles Times'' Oct 27, 1973, p. B1]<br />
<br />
The "Heir to Oil Fortune" was Billy Byars, Jr. and the "Son of Actress" a Lyric producer. As the policy of the ''Los Angeles Times'' was then to not index criminal justice proceedings, it is difficult to determine just what happened to the fourteen accused. A later story confirms that the first of the accused to go to trial ("YMCA Counselor") was acquitted after a full day of jury deliberation, and that two others had pled guilty. A jury deliberated four days before convicting D.M.Y, accused on nine counts, although one of the two thirteen-year-old victims testified that he had been dangled over a cliff by two policemen who insisted he name men with whom he had had sex. (Lloyd, ''supra'', p. 151) also [http://web.archive.org/web/20070629205045/http://www.paedosexualitaet.de/exp/cliffsrc.html]. The defendant in that case received a $500 fine.[''L.A. Times'', May 31, 1974, p. E4. Online summary only consulted]<br />
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While the Meese commission and the ''Los Angeles Times'' both refer to films of child pornography, the news article says that the accused were charged not with child pornography, but with molesting children. It says "One confiscated film shows the boys playing nude on a beach believed to be near Corpus Christi." Lyric did produce such a film, ''Summer Freedom'' but perhaps no charges were filed based on the film because it was not pornographic under California law.<br />
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Two of the accusers<br />
<br />
<blockquote><br />
"... were just hustlers the police had dug up ... they had worked for Lyric a good little while ago. Even the police didn't push their stories too much, because they were both well into their teens and they admitted they were willing participants." <br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
The Los Angeles scandal was fueled in part by the 1973 murders in Houston, Texas, by Dean Corll of at least 27 teenagers. The police insinuated to the press that the Lyric scandal might have a connection. Lyric's owner was originally from Texas; another of those arrested in the case was identified by the ''L.A. Times'' as "W.J., a Houston photographer".<br />
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Some of the accusations are puzzling and inconsistent. While the headline says the men were "Indicted in Sex Movies" the text says "the indictments do not charge anyone with making obscene films." Guy Strait was arrested, as well as another man, D.M.Y, called "a major competitor of Strait in the distribution of homosexual films" [L.A. Times, supra]. How a "ring" can be formed by competitors is not explained. While that's certainly possible in price-fixing, that is not mentioned as a concern in the episode.<br />
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[[Lloyd Martin]], the policeman most responsible for the arrests, constructed a national reputation as the "child abuse policeman". He later fell into discredit. Widespread criticism of him and his methods is easily found on the Internet. Martin's signature sound bite is that child abuse is "worse than homicide." One ''Salon'' article calls him "infamous" and provides a good general discussion of the exaggerations of child pornography foes [http://archive.salon.com/mwt/feature/2000/01/31/kincaid/index1.html].<br />
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Byars's old friend J. Edgar Hoover had died in May, 1972.<br />
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==Fortunes Restored?==<br />
<br />
Mr. Byars was out of the country at the time of the scandal. Robin Lloyd claimed in 1976 that "As soon as the heat was on, Byars fled to Europe to avoid prosecution. He is presumably there today and will probably stay, since there are at least four outstanding felony warrants for his arrest in this country."[Lloyd, p. 78] The Lyric producer, however, says that after Strait's arrest he spoke with friends in the police and was told there was no cause for concern. He at least did not feel "the heat was on". Summers says that, "Byars was by then abroad, reportedly in Morocco, and stayed out of the United States for many years to come."[Summers, ''op. cit.'', p. 377] The implication is that he had returned by the time Summers interviewed him in 1988.<br />
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While Swisher refers to Byars's mother in the past tense, Texas public records show that Emily Byars died on December 30, 1979 [http://vitals.rootsweb.ancestry.com/tx/death/search.cgi]. Byars's sister purchased the family home from the estate. [http://www.historictyler.org/spring_tour/tour_2004/summers_2004] That would imply that there were other heirs, presumably Billy Byars, Jr.<br />
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The house in the Hollywood hills that served as Byars's home and as the Lyric studio was last sold on 12/01/1988 for $600,000. [http://www.zillow.com/homes/map/8207-mulholland-drive_lb/los-angeles-ca_rb/] Whether Byars was the seller would be available in Los Angeles public records, but isn't online.<br />
<br />
So whatever harm may have been done to his finances by ''The Genesis Children'', it's safe to assume he inherited another chunk of a Texas-sized fortune, and this after a decade that had been good to oil money. Fifteen years older and presumably wiser, he may have held onto it. Certainly he has not since cut as wide as swath as he did in the halcyon years of Lyric International.<br />
<br />
==Kennedy Assassination Conspiracy==<br />
<br />
Summers shows through numerous details how very well the Byars, father and son, knew Hoover. The afternoon of President Kennedy's death, J. Edgar Hoover phoned three people: the Attorney General, the head of the Secret Service, and Billy Byars, Sr. [Summers, ''supra'', p. 329]<br />
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One statement by Billy Byars, Jr., is frequently repeated by conspiracy theorists. Byars related to Summers a conversation at the Del Charro during the summer of 1964 or 1965.<br />
<br />
<blockquote><br />
"I asked him, 'Do you think Lee Harvey Oswald did it?' And he stopped and looked at me for quite a long time. Then he said, "If I told you what I really know, it would be very dangerous to this country. Our whole political system could be disrupted.' That's all he said, and I could see he wasn't going to say any more." [Summers, supra, p. 330]. <br />
</blockquote><br />
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Usually when this quote is cited online Byars, Jr. is described as "teenage", but he would have been in his late twenties.<br />
[edit] Common Errors<br />
<br />
Several errors are frequent in online information about Byars.<br />
<br />
* The most common is spelling his name as "Byers".<br />
* The next common is describing his mother as an actress. While the headline in the 1973 scandal referred to "Heir to Oil Fortune" and "Son of Actress", "son of actress" was in fact someone else, a Lyric producer.<br />
* Lastly, More & Co. of San Francisco, in their magazine More Children #1 identified one of the models as "Billy Byars, Jr." This is probably a competitor tweaking Lyric. It is not plausible that the son of a wealthy Texan was posing for nude photos in San Francisco. Byars's 1936 birth doesn't match up, either.<br />
* Online searches find a William G Byars, Jr who died on June 15, 1997 in Pottsboro, Texas. But his date of birth is given as October 21, 1926, so presumably he's a different Byars.<br />
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[[Category:Countries and Cultures: Historical]][[Category:Child Pornography]][[Category:TV & Media]]</div>Citizen 2416https://www.newgon.net/wiki/index.php?title=Peter_Glawson&diff=2142Peter Glawson2008-10-24T18:15:44Z<p>Citizen 2416: New page: '''Peter Glawson''' was the screen name of one of the most prominent of the models in the Lyric International stable. Blond, handsome, and charismatic, he appeared in the feature film ''Th...</p>
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<div>'''Peter Glawson''' was the screen name of one of the most prominent of the models in the Lyric International stable. Blond, handsome, and charismatic, he appeared in the feature film ''The Genesis Children'', and recycled pictures of him have earned him an enduring Usenet cult status.<br />
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==Born in Texas==<br />
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Mr. Glawson is most easily dated by his appearance in ''The Genesis Children''. Released in August 1972, the movie must have been filmed at least a year earlier, presumably during the summer of 1971. In that movie Peter is an adolescent, while in the short film ''Swim Party'', filmed before the fall of Lyric in 1973, he is clearly a young man.<br />
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An "incomplete and unofficial" biography of Peter was posted on Usenet in January 1999 by Boyhowdy [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.svens/msg/01f24ba9e68f2618], who that same month posted a series of published photos of Peter, along with commentary which survives on Google Groups. He states that Mr. Glawson was "born in the mid-1950s (probably 1955 or 56)." That would make him 15 or 16 in ''The Genesis Children'', and 17 or 18 in the last Lyric films.<br />
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Boyhowdy goes on to say that Peter "spent his early years in Texas with his older brother, Rick and younger half-brother, Maxey". [[Billy Byars, Jr.]], who founded Lyric, was raised in Tyler, Texas, and a Lyric film shot in Texas, ''Sandy Hill'', features a younger Peter. Another Lyric film, ''Summer Freedom'', shot on Padre Island National Seashore in Texas, may also include Peter. The same Usenet post also says that, "the earliest published photos of Peter that we know of are the ones of him and Maxey and Billy Marshall and the other boys on the Gulf Coast of Texas (playing along the beach). Peter is 12 in these photos."<br />
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Peter appears in ''The Genesis Childen'' wearing a Tyler YMCA T-shirt.<br />
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==Peter in California==<br />
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Boyhowdy’s "incomplete and unofficial" biography says that, "When Peter was around 12 … he and Maxey moved from Texas to California to live with their Uncle Terry." Terry’s status as "Uncle" is discussed elsewhere. Other sources describe Maxey as the actor Max Adams of ''The Genesis Children''. One of those involved in the scandal, a Lyric producer, said in a 1975 interview that police coerced an accusation from the younger brother of a boy who lived with him. The younger brother, 13 at the time, would have been born in 1960. This scarcely identifies Maxey and Peter, for having a brother is only somewhat rarer than having a mother. The producer also says that the younger boy came on weekends to stay with his brother, and mentions an alcoholic father, all of which would suggest that his houseguest’s family was close by, and not in Texas.<br />
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The producer also denied that the boy was his lover, but acknowledged that many – including the younger brother – believed that to be the case at the time. He also said that at the time of the interview, the older boy was in the Army.<br />
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An anonymous online source who claims to have known Peter says:<br />
<br />
<blockquote><br />
"I would say that he was totally straight and not a nudist but a 'financed boy' who was resident with an older person. He liked being looked at but I would doubt that he was that keen on looking. He was brought into the big city from the country and I would say that it was his practical nature rather than anything else that kept him there." [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.prettyboy/msg/9600bca3cb3239ce]<br />
</blockquote><br />
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==Among the Lyric models==<br />
<br />
Peter appears in Lyric’s magazines and films over what is clearly a period of years, from pre-adolescence to young manhood. Others of the boys in ''The Genesis Children'' are also clearly identifiable, however. In Usenet afterlife, Mr. Glawson is the most prominent of the Lyric models. Was he preeminent at the time? In ''The Genesis Children'', he supposedly has only a single line of dialog. However, one of the films, ''Peter and the Desert Riders'' has his name in the title.<br />
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Also, the Hollywood magazine ''Zipper'' had in its June-July 1972 issue, along with a review of ''The Genesis Children'', an item called “Zipper's Roommate of the Month: Peter Glawson (Young Star of "The Genesis Children")." Perhaps he was regarded as something special even then. An August 27, 2006 eBay listing for a copy of the issue says it contains "an exclusive interview via telephone with young Peter Glawson, star of ''Genesis Children'' entitled ''Genesis Child'' (with six tasteful photographs, including centerfold)."<br />
<br />
He appears to have been a frequent presence at the Lyric studio and ''the pool with the cinderblock walls'', also Mr. Byars’s house, in the Hollywood Hills. One of Lyric's early magazines, ''Coq d'Or'', says "Peter rarely wears clothes around the studio."<br />
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==Heterosexuality==<br />
<br />
Usenet posts by those who claim to know Mr. Glawson uniformly declare him to be heterosexual. None of the Lyric International films or magazines show him in sexual activity; indeed Lyric produced nothing showing anyone in sexual activity. Lyric produced only “physique” photos, although Guy Strait, associated in a distribution operation called DOM/Lyric, did produce pornography including child pornography.<br />
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The Lyric producer mentioned above did confirm that Lyric used as models some boys who also worked as call boys. The highly unreliable Robin Lloyd affirms that a "Peter, a thirteen-year-old and one of Byars's favorites, still commands a high price in the chicken market." (Lloyd, Robin, For Money or Love: Boy Prostitution in America, Ballantine Books, NY, 1976, p. 79) On the same page he affirms that ''The Genesis Children'' includes a Hawaiian boy named Guy Sommers, which can be disproved by consulting IMDB or the picture on the cover of the VHS tape.<br />
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There is even a published story that two of the Lyric boys participated in a tryst with J. Edgar Hoover and his assistant. [http://newgon.com/wiki/Billy_Byars%2C_Jr.#J._Edgar_Hoover_and_the_Lyric_boys].<br />
<br />
That incident involved a boy who was 15 in 1969, and “another boy”, and again the source is unreliable, in this case the same man who circulated the tale of Hoover dressing up in drag. There is simply no evidence that Mr. Glawson did any more in front of Lyric’s cameras than take off his clothes. Nor is there reason to believe that anyone else ever did. While there were young men known to Lyric that did engage in sex for pay, there is no reason to believe that Mr. Glawson was among them, and those who seem to know him declare that he was not.<br />
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==Peter Today==<br />
<br />
Boyhowdy’s 1999 post declares of Peter that<br />
<br />
<blockquote><br />
We do know for a fact that he is still alive, and in fact was the benefactor of Harlan 'Slim' Pfeiffer's estate, including (sources say) having acquired most all of Slim's collection of negatives and photos from the Lyric days. It is also reported that he bought up, or otherwise acquired, the rights to all the nudist stuff, including the films, most of it which was owned by Falcon Studios, and the remainder by a couple of photographers. It is our understanding that Peter is still in contact with the Dom and they remain friends. <br />
<br />
Peter Glawson has made some appearances as an adult, including on some cable TV talk show a few years ago. He apparently is unwilling to say much about his childhood stardom or give out information about any of the other boys, possibly to protect their privacy. He did acknowledge his acquisition of the original photos and indicated that The Genesis Children as well as videos of the home movies were to be re-released, which has in fact happened. <br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
Some of what Boyhowdy has to say is verifiably incorrect: he merges the three separate figures of "the DOM" who was Guy Strait; Billy Byars, Jr.; and the Lyric producer referred to but not named here.<br />
<br />
Other Usenet posts from 2001 describe Mr. Glawson as happily married with children, and having no regrets about his early career in photography.<br />
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==See also==<br />
<br />
* [[Billy Byars, Jr.]]<br />
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<div>[[Image:JMBarrie.jpg|thumb|James Matthew Barrie in 1890]]<br />
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'''Sir James Matthew Barrie, Bt., OM''' (1860-1937) was a photographer, author, and playwright most famous for creating the character Peter Pan.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
<br />
Barrie was born in Scotland, on 9 May, 1860. When Barrie was six, his oldest brother David died in a skating accident at the age of 13. Their mother was devastated and Barrie tried to live up to the high expectations his mother had had for his brother. He became a successful journalist, and later a freelance writer. Through this success he began writing plays and novels. His works were critically acclaimed in his time. He married the actress Mary Ansell, although it is likely he never consummated that marriage.<br />
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In 1897 he met George and Jack Llewelyn-Davies, two [[boy]]s playing in London's Kensington Gardens, and soon became a close friend of their family--especially the boys and their three younger brothers. His wife became tired of being ignored for the Llewelyn-Davieses and eventually began an affair, later divorcing Barrie. Arthur Llewelyn-Davies, father of the five boys, had some suspicion about Barrie's relationship with the family, but when he was stricken with a disfiguring cancer of the jaw which left him unable to speak, Barrie abandoned his current play in production to nurse Arthur back to health after surgery. Barrie never left Arthur's bedside, and any suspicions that were harbored were forgotten. After the death of both of their parents from cancer, Barrie became the guardian of all five Llewellyn-Davies boys.<br />
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==Famous works==<br />
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[[Image:DaviesPeterPan.jpg|thumb|Michael Llewelyn Davies dressed as Peter Pan and photographed by J. M. Barrie at Rustington, August 1906]]<br />
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The most famous of Barrie's works is his play ''Peter Pan'', and the associated short stories, but he was a prolific writer. One of the more interesting works to [[boylover]]s might be the book [[The Little White Bird]], which contains vivid stories of a bachelor sharing adventures with a young boy.<br />
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==External links==<br />
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* http://www.jmbarrie.co.uk/ - A vast online resource with letters, photos, audio, and more.<br />
* [http://www.amrep.org/past/peter/peter1.html An Awfully Big Adventure] - A biography of J.M. Barrie, focused on Peter Pan<br />
* [http://www.glgarden.org/ocg/archive1/barrie.html Famous British Paedophiles - J.M. Barrie] at [http://www.glgarden.org Girllove Garden]<br />
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/b#a10 Text of selected works by J.M. Barrie] at [http://www.gutenberg.org Project Gutenberg]<br />
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<div>[[Image:JMBarrie.jpg|thumb|James Matthew Barrie in 1890]]<br />
<br />
'''Sir James Matthew Barrie, Bt., OM''' (1860-1937) was a photographer, author, and playwright most famous for creating the character Peter Pan.<br />
<br />
==Biography==<br />
<br />
Barrie was born in Scotland, on 9 May, 1860. When Barrie was six, his oldest brother David died in a skating accident at the age of 13. Their mother was devastated and Barrie tried to live up to the high expectations his mother had had for his brother. He became a successful journalist, and later a freelance writer. Through this success he began writing plays and novels. His works were critically acclaimed in his time. He married the actress Mary Ansell, although it is likely he never consummated that marriage.<br />
<br />
In 1897 he met George and Jack Llewelyn-Davies, two [[boy]]s playing in London's Kensington Gardens, and soon became a close friend of their family--especially the boys and their three younger brothers. His wife became tired of being ignored for the Llewelyn-Davieses and eventually began an affair, later divorcing Barrie. Arthur Llewelyn-Davies, father of the five boys, had some suspicion about Barrie's relationship with the family, but when he was stricken with a disfiguring cancer of the jaw which left him unable to speak, Barrie abandoned his current play in production to nurse Arthur back to health after surgery. Barrie never left Arthur's bedside, and any suspicions that were harbored were forgotten. After the death of both of their parents from cancer, Barrie became the guardian of all five Llewellyn-Davies boys.<br />
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==Famous works==<br />
<br />
[[Image:DaviesPeterPan.jpg|thumb|left|Michael Llewelyn Davies dressed as Peter Pan and photographed by J. M. Barrie at Rustington, August 1906]]<br />
<br />
The most famous of Barrie's works is his play ''Peter Pan'', and the associated short stories, but he was a prolific writer. One of the more interesting works to [[boylover]]s might be the book [[The Little White Bird]], which contains vivid stories of a bachelor sharing adventures with a young boy.<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
<br />
* http://www.jmbarrie.co.uk/ - A vast online resource with letters, photos, audio, and more.<br />
* [http://www.amrep.org/past/peter/peter1.html An Awfully Big Adventure] - A biography of J.M. Barrie, focused on Peter Pan<br />
* [http://www.glgarden.org/ocg/archive1/barrie.html Famous British Paedophiles] - J.M. Barrie at [http://www.glgarden.org Girllove Garden]<br />
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/b#a10 Text of selected works by J.M. Barrie] at [http://www.gutenberg.org Project Gutenberg]<br />
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<div>'''Oscar Wilde''' (1854 - 1900) was a [[:Category:People: British|British]] [[:Category:People: Popular Authors|writer]]. He is famous for titles like ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' as well as his affection for [[boy]]s, which landed him in prison in 1895. Specifically, he was convicted of charges of sodomy that were brought in response to a lawsuit he filed against the Marquis of Queensbury. He sued the marquis for libel in connection with a note the the marquis wrote accusing Wilde of "posing as a sodomite." Wilde and the marquis' son, [[Lord Alfred Douglas]], then in his early 20s, were lovers. Wilde was convicted on charges related to Douglas, though the most sensational portions of the trial related to testimony that he consorted with older adolescents and young men of the working class. Because gentlemen did not, by the standards of the day, socialize with working people, the Crown lead the jury to assume that the contacts Wilde had with these young men had to be sexual in nature.<br />
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Wilde penned what some have described as his most poignant poem, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," while incarcerated at heavy labor on the sodomy conviction. After his release, Wilde and Douglas spent time together in Greece and Paris. Wilde had become nearly destitute and their relationship became very troubled, leading to periods of separation and reconciliation. Wilde died alone in a Paris boarding house three years after his release from Reading Gaol.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
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* Born 16 October 1854 in Dublin<br />
* 1884 Marriage with Constance Lloyd, with whom he had two sons, Cyril (*1885) and Vyvyan (*1886).<br />
* 25 May 1895, sentenced to prison on a charge of sodomy<br />
* 1897 released from prison due to his illness<br />
* Died 30 November 1900 in Paris <br />
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==Famous works==<br />
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* The Portrait of Mr. W. H. 1889<br />
* The Picture of Dorian Gray 1891<br />
* The Importance of Being Earnest 1895 <br />
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==External links==<br />
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* [http://www.oscarwildecollection.com The Oscar Wilde Collection]<br />
* [http://www.ucc.ie/celt/et19wilde.html Collected works]<br />
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==See also==<br />
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[[Lord Alfred Douglas]]<br />
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<div>'''Oscar Wilde''' (1854 - 1900) was a [[:Category:People: British]] [[:Category:People: Popular Authors|writer]]. He is famous for titles like ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' as well as his affection for [[boy]]s, which landed him in prison in 1895. Specifically, he was convicted of charges of sodomy that were brought in response to a lawsuit he filed against the Marquis of Queensbury. He sued the marquis for libel in connection with a note the the marquis wrote accusing Wilde of "posing as a sodomite." Wilde and the marquis' son, [[Lord Alfred Douglas]], then in his early 20s, were lovers. Wilde was convicted on charges related to Douglas, though the most sensational portions of the trial related to testimony that he consorted with older adolescents and young men of the working class. Because gentlemen did not, by the standards of the day, socialize with working people, the Crown lead the jury to assume that the contacts Wilde had with these young men had to be sexual in nature.<br />
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Wilde penned what some have described as his most poignant poem, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," while incarcerated at heavy labor on the sodomy conviction. After his release, Wilde and Douglas spent time together in Greece and Paris. Wilde had become nearly destitute and their relationship became very troubled, leading to periods of separation and reconciliation. Wilde died alone in a Paris boarding house three years after his release from Reading Gaol.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
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* Born 16 October 1854 in Dublin<br />
* 1884 Marriage with Constance Lloyd, with whom he had two sons, Cyril (*1885) and Vyvyan (*1886).<br />
* 25 May 1895, sentenced to prison on a charge of sodomy<br />
* 1897 released from prison due to his illness<br />
* Died 30 November 1900 in Paris <br />
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==Famous works==<br />
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* The Portrait of Mr. W. H. 1889<br />
* The Picture of Dorian Gray 1891<br />
* The Importance of Being Earnest 1895 <br />
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==External links==<br />
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* [http://www.oscarwildecollection.com The Oscar Wilde Collection]<br />
* [http://www.ucc.ie/celt/et19wilde.html Collected works]<br />
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==See also==<br />
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[[Lord Alfred Douglas]]<br />
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<div>'''Oscar Wilde''' (1854 - 1900) was a British writer. He is famous for titles like ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' as well as his affection for [[boy]]s, which landed him in prison in 1895. Specifically, he was convicted of charges of sodomy that were brought in response to a lawsuit he filed against the Marquis of Queensbury. He sued the marquis for libel in connection with a note the the marquis wrote accusing Wilde of "posing as a sodomite." Wilde and the marquis' son, [[Lord Alfred Douglas]], then in his early 20s, were lovers. Wilde was convicted on charges related to Douglas, though the most sensational portions of the trial related to testimony that he consorted with older adolescents and young men of the working class. Because gentlemen did not, by the standards of the day, socialize with working people, the Crown lead the jury to assume that the contacts Wilde had with these young men had to be sexual in nature.<br />
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Wilde penned what some have described as his most poignant poem, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," while incarcerated at heavy labor on the sodomy conviction. After his release, Wilde and Douglas spent time together in Greece and Paris. Wilde had become nearly destitute and their relationship became very troubled, leading to periods of separation and reconciliation. Wilde died alone in a Paris boarding house three years after his release from Reading Gaol.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
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* Born 16 October 1854 in Dublin<br />
* 1884 Marriage with Constance Lloyd, with whom he had two sons, Cyril (*1885) and Vyvyan (*1886).<br />
* 25 May 1895, sentenced to prison on a charge of sodomy<br />
* 1897 released from prison due to his illness<br />
* Died 30 November 1900 in Paris <br />
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==Famous works==<br />
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* The Portrait of Mr. W. H. 1889<br />
* The Picture of Dorian Gray 1891<br />
* The Importance of Being Earnest 1895 <br />
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==External links==<br />
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* [http://www.oscarwildecollection.com The Oscar Wilde Collection]<br />
* [http://www.ucc.ie/celt/et19wilde.html Collected works]<br />
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==See also==<br />
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[[Lord Alfred Douglas]]<br />
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<div>'''Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas''' KBE (22 October 1870 – 20 March 1945), nicknamed "Bosie", was the third son of John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, and the former Sibyl Montgomery. He is remembered as a partner to the writer [[Oscar Wilde]], and was an obscure [[Uranian]] poet in his own right.<br />
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Douglas was born at Ham Hill House in Worcestershire, and educated at Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford. He met Oscar Wilde in 1891 and soon began an affair with him. When his father, the Marquess of Queensberry, discovered his son's liaison, he publicly insulted Wilde with a misspelled note left at Wilde's club. The note, actually his calling card, had written upon it: "To Oscar Wilde posing as a sodomite."<br />
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Wilde charged Queensberry with criminal libel. The confrontation escalated, and some believe Lord Alfred egged Wilde on to fight his father. Wilde was eventually formally accused of 'gross indecency', this being little more than a euphemism for any [[homosexuality|homosexual]] act, public or private, an offense for which he went to trial. Wilde was convicted and imprisoned for two years. Afterward, he and Douglas lived together in Naples for three months and then lived apart in Paris for a time.<br />
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In 1902, Douglas married Olive Eleanor Custance, an heiress and poet. They had one son, Raymond, who died in 1964. Douglas was the editor of a literary journal, "The Academy," from 1907 to 1910. Douglas published several volumes of poetry (including ''Collected Poems'', 1919; The Complete Poems of Lord Alfred Douglas, 1928; and ''Sonnets'', 1935), some of which is well regarded; two books about his relationship with Wilde, "Oscar Wilde and Myself" (1914; largely ghostwritten by T.W.H. Crosland, the assistant editor of "The Academy") and "Oscar Wilde: A Summing Up" (1940); and an autobiography, ''The Autobiography of Lord Alfred Douglas'' (1931).<br />
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Douglas's 1892 poem "Two Loves," used against Wilde at the latter's trial, ends with the famous line that refers to homosexuality as "the Love that dare not speak its name".<br />
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Douglas translated ''The Protocols of the Elders of Zion'' in 1919, amongst the first English language translations of that anti-Semitic work, and embraced right-wing Catholicism in his later life.<br />
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Douglas was a plaintiff and defendant in several criminal libel trials. In the most noted case, brought by Winston Churchill in 1923, Douglas was found guilty of libeling Churchill and was sentenced to six months in prison. Douglas had claimed that Churchill had been part of a conspiracy to kill Lord Kitchener, the British Secretary of State for War. Kitchener had died on June 5, 1916, while on a diplomatic mission to Russia. The ship in which he was traveling, the armoured cruiser HMS ''Hampshire'' struck a German mine and sank west of the Orkney Islands. Douglas claimed that his health never recovered from his harsh prison ordeal, which included sleeping on a plank bed, without a mattress. While in prison, Douglas, in an ironic echo of Wilde's composition of ''De Profundis'' (Latin for "From the Depths") during his incarceration, wrote his last major poetic work, ''In Excelsis'' (literally, "in the highest" in Latin), which contains 17 cantos. As the prison authorities would not allow Douglas to take the manuscript with him when he was released, Douglas had to write out the entire work from memory.<br />
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<div>'''Henry de Montherlant''' (* 20. April 1895, † 21. September 1972, both in Paris) was an important [[:Category:People: French|French]] [[:Category:People: Popular Authors|author]] of plays, essays, and novels, whose life and work bear the marks of his attraction to [[boy]]s.<br />
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==Youth==<br />
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Henry Marie Joseph Frédéric Expedite Millon de Montherlant was born in Paris on April 20, 1895 into a well-to-do family, which was catholic and royalist in a way that had already started to look antiquated. In particular his father, a mere ''inspecteur des finances'' sported a conspicious backwardness. He was, however, of little importance for his son, who associated intimately only with his mother and grand-mother. His mother was gifted and cheerful. After giving birth to her only child she had to stay in bed until her early death in 1915. So her whole life revolved around her son. Once for instance, she read with him in the evening before bed-time, the novel "Quo vadis", a world-wide bestseller of the time, in a bowdlerized edition. The eight-year old was fascinated, particularly by the free-thinker Petronius.<br />
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At first he was educated at home. In 1905, he entered the ''sixième'' of the lycée Janson-de-Sailly, where he befriended J.-N. Faure-Biguet. Both rivalled each other in the composition of little stories, which he lovingly copied and illustrated, complete with imprint, copyright and advertisment pages. During his life he would keep an interest in both the pecuniary and the aesthetic side of book production.<br />
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In 1907 the family, grand-parents and six servants included, moved to a large house in Neuilly, near the Bois de Boulogne. For the next four years, Montherlant visited the cosy private school Saint-Pierre de Neuilly. Louis Aragon, who was his companion there remembers:<br />
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And then I can show Guy [Montherlant] what I had written, my verses. And he is surprised that I should have read more than he, in spite of his being twelve years old at that time, against my eleven, and he even sort of admires me, although it amuses him that I speak of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the year that I prepare my First Communion. . . ''(Aragon, le Mentir-vrai, 37, quoted by Sipriot, I, 143)''<br />
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In these years he fell passionately in love with several fellow pupils, according to Faure-Biguet, who also writes that in his room at home the pictures on the wall showed nothing but children.<br />
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During a stay at Bayonne, where he accompanied his grand-mother on a pilgrimage to Lourdes, he sneaked away to attend a bull-fight, still sanguinary at the time, and a new lasting passion grew out of this. Later he would stay in Spain for a long vacation and make some experiences for himself.<br />
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In order to be better prepared for the final examinations, the ''baccalauréat'', a change of school was deemed necessary. Montherlant coaxed his mother (he was sick at the time) into allowing him to follow two fellow pupils he was endeared with to the "liberal" catholic collège Sainte-Croix de Neuilly. To compensate for the dangerously leftist climate at this institution he was given a particularly reactionary Jesuit as a confessor, who, it seems, more or less kept his friend Faure-Biguet informed about the following . . .<br />
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The following time he would forever remember a his happiest. His old school had been familiar and intimate, but at the new one he soon discovered a secret underground world of forbidden and, as far as we knew, quite sensual friendships between younger and older pupils. He enjoys his life there thoroughly, later in life regretting only to have spent any time at all on his lessons.<br />
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In March 1912, only a few months before the final examinations, Montherlant was expelled from school. His father, characteristically, would never been told; his mother and grand-mother, however, were privy, to a degree, to his intimate life; he wrote, e.g., quite open letters to his grand-mother. It is not unusual in this times to extend a certain tolerance in this respect, as Julien Green remembers with respect to his own first love.<br />
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Now Montherlant experienced a great void; he takes private tution towards his exams, shortly tries the university, works as a clerk. Then his parents die, the war commences. He managed half to avoid, half to partake in it remotely at the end.<br />
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His first book he wrote in the army. La relève du matin appeared 1920, at first in a private edition as nobody would publish him; but then it is favourably received and soon a commercial publisher took it up. Montherlant has gotten a name. His subject: boys. You remember, the ''century of the child'' is barely twenty years old.<br />
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==Les garçons==<br />
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The novel ''Les garçons'' (Boys) was his last major work. Based, only half-autobiographically, on the story of his expulsion from Ste-Croix de Neuilly, it is central to his life and writing and one might consider it his closing gift to the world. In a first sketch, it dates back to 1914.<br />
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In fact, one can distinguish four manuscript stages: of 1914, 1929 (printed in the notes for the critical edition, pp. 1377–1396), 1947 and the final revision, which took place from 1965–1969. When the novel was published in 1969, it was still bowdlerized; Michel Raymond, who prepared the critical edition for the ''Bibliothèque de la Pléiade'', gives a list of deletions in his notes, which make for an amusing reading.<br />
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It challenged Montherlant to make a play out of this stuff, too. The result is ''La ville dont le prince est un enfant'', which appeared in 1951. Characteristically, Montherlant withhold the permission for a theatralical performance for a long time. But when it was given for the first time in Paris, 1967–1971 it met with considerable success (400, according to other sources even 1000 performances).<br />
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Early on, however, the play had been staged abroad and by student companies. It also sold exceptionally good, and Montherlant devoted half of the 1967 edition of it (coll. Folio) to collect mostly appreciative voices from this period, "in case the wind changes." Although the play is not in any sense explicit, this very positive reception is a striking and nowadays almost unbelieveable fact.<br />
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The French (state) television produced La ville as a prominent feature in 1997, directed by Christophe Malavoy who also played the major adult part, the abbé de Pradts. It is a successful and faithful adaptation that is well played and also meticulously reproduces the period character. Of course, the "will not to know" is at work here, perhaps together with a cultural heritage that allows for some licence, albeit only on a strictly literary level.<br />
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Both the play and the novel share the fundamental dramatic conflict: the intimate friendship of two pupils runs afoul of the love and jealousy of a teacher (the abbé de Pradts). This happens in a catholic collège before the First World War. These collèges were then private establishments, and Montherlant, although not a believer, felt himself (as an old boy) very much attracted to the particular climate of these institutions.<br />
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What is condensed to 36 hours in the play grows to a temporarily and thematically far-reaching story in the novel. The major extensions are the description of the pederastic subculture (the ''protection''), the realtionship between the boy Alban (Montherlant's alter ego) and his mother, the story of de Pradts, the boys' opponent, which is continued until his death, and the boys' romance, described with much discretion but also with considerable weight.<br />
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Ils prirent un fiacre. Serge enleva sa casquette, mit ses pieds sur le petit strapontin de devant, et ainsi, à demi étendu, un peu recroquevillé, s'appuya sur Alban. Il était à sa gauche, et le bras de son camarade l'entourait et l'enserrait avec force, tandis qu'il s'installait à petits coups, inoubliablement . . . « Mon petit corps ! Mon petit corps ! »<br />
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Mais quand Alban commença de le baiser au visage et dans le cheveux, il eut d'abord, surpris peut-être par la violence de ces baisers, peut-être par cette même obscurité qui enhardissait son partenaire, ou bien comme s'il ne voulait voir ce qui se passait, un réflexe de gosselot de neuf ans, tout frais en ces choses : cachant sa figure sur ses petit pattes tachées d'encre, tout de même qu'un boxeur se couvre, ou qu'un jeune chat croise ses pattes par-dessus la sienne, avec un fou rire, le petit rire saccadé, ininterrompu et bête, de quelqu'un qui est mal à l'aise. Et peu à peu, dans une absolu silence, les main levées s'abaissèrent et le rire cessa. Alors il s'étira, se poussa, s'encoigna, s'installa encore un peu plus, et Alban le serrait toujours davantage contre soi, remontant ses mèches, dénudant ce front imprévu, grattant le sommet de sa nuque, (mais quid de la célèbre bosse, révélatrice de lubricité infinie ? Rien, il faut le dire, rien . . .), découvrant un nouveau visage, qu'on ne connaissait pas, qui n'était qu'à lui seul, et qui les lumières de l'avenue tantôt éclairaient, tantôt rejetaient dans l'ombre. « J'aurai enfin vu tourné vers moi ce visage que je ne jamais vu tourné que vers ce qui n'est pas moi. » et c'était, pour l'un et pour l'autre, la première fois des gestes qu'ils allaient recommencer toute leur vie.<br />
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Alban : Jamais je n'aurais cru que nous nous trouverions un jour dans cette situation.<br />
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Serge : Moi non plus, jamais ! Et dire qu'il y a quinze jours, tu m'as dit que je te dégoûtais . . .<br />
[Les garçons, ''Romans II'', p.550) <br />
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They took a carriage. Serge lifted his cap, put his feet on the little folding-seat in front of him, and thus, half-streched and a bit crooked, he leaned against Alban. He sat on the left, and the arm of his companion embraced him and pulled him with strength while he adjusted himself in the seat with little jerks. Alban would never forget these movements . . . "This little body! This little body!"<br />
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But when Alban started to kiss his face and hair he reacted in the first moment—perhaps surprised by the violence of these kisses or perhaps because of the darkness that made his partner bold or even in order not to see what happened—like a little boy of nine years, for whom this is all new: he hid his face in his small ink-stained fists, like a boxer who covers himself or a young cat who crosses its paws, and laughed the abrupt and silly and endless laughter of someone who feels not at ease. But slowly he became quiet, the raised hands sunk, the laughter stopped. Then he strechted himself, pushed against Alban, slid a little further into his corner. Alban pulled him even nearer, pushed his hair out of his eyes to see his forehead for the first time, rubbed his neck (but what about that famous bump, revealing an unlimited sensuality? Nothing, we have to admit, nothing . . .), discovered a new face, as yet unknown to him, a face only for him to behold, and which the lights of the avenue now illuminated, now threw back into darkness. »Finally I have seen this face looking at me, which I never saw but looking elsewhere.» And both of them started those gestures that they would recommence for the rest of their lives.<br />
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Alban: I would have never thought that we should find us some day in this situation.<br />
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Serge: Nor did I, never! And to think that a fortnight ago you told me that I made you sick . . . <br />
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The novel ends with the death of the abbé de Pradts. Dying he looks back. Through the open window he hears the sound of boys playing soccer and on a wall that is covered with boys' photos he looks at those "who during his life had relieved one another—like the little pieces of cork that hold a fishing-net on the surface of the sea they had held him on the surface of his life."<br />
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==Select Bibliography==<br />
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===Some Works===<br />
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* Montherlant's Œuvres appeared already during his lifetime in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in four volumes.<br />
* La relève du matin.-- Paris, 1920, Paris, 1973 (Coll. Folio) [text of the extended edition of 1963 ]<br />
* La ville dont le prince est un enfant. [Play] His oldest work, dating back to 1913. – Paris: Gallimard, 1951; 1957 [revised text, added appendixes]; 1967 [text revised for the Parisian performance] ; 1973 (coll. Folio). – The appendixes contain material about the early performances and the reception of the play just in case that the wind changes. (M.)<br />
* La ville dont le prince est un enfant. [movie] Directed by Christophe Malavoy (1997). See [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120453/combined IMDB]<br />
* Les Garçons. -- Paris, Gallimard, 1969 [bowdlerized text; complete for the first time in a luxury edition 1973] authoritative text in Romans II, edited by Michel Raimond (1982, Pléiade) pp. 429–842, notes and variants pp. 1360–1494. On pp. 1377–1396 the manuscript of 1929 is printed. The manuscript of 1947 is summarised; in addition Montherlant's deletions from the first edition are given, and make for amusing reading.<br />
* Boys : a novel / translated by Terence Kilmartin. – London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1974. – xi, 281 p. ; 22 cm. – ISBN: 0297994174 (Translation of Les Garçons. — This is apparently the only edition; an expensive collector's item.) <br />
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===Biographical===<br />
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* Correspondance [letters] / Henry de Montherlant, Roger Peyrefitte. – Paris: Laffont, 1983<br />
* Pierre Sipriot: Montherlant sans masque. – Paris: Laffont. – 2 vols.: 1. L'enfant prodigue : 1895–1932., 1982; 2. Écris avec ton sang : 1932–1972.,1990. – Biography. Vol. 2 has an index.<br />
* Album Montherlant / iconographie réunie et commentée par Pierre Sipriot. – Paris: Gallimard, 1979. (Bibliothèque de la Pléiade)<br />
* Faure-Biguet, J.-N. (Jacques Napoléon): Les enfances de Montherlant. – Paris: Plon 1941; ²Paris: Lefebvre, 1948. — Reminiscences of a boyhood friend.<br />
* Peyrefitte, Roger: Propos secrets. – Paris: Laffont. – vol. 1.: 1977 ; vol. 2.: 1980 — Reminiscences of a longtime acquaintance. <br />
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===Internet Resources===<br />
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* [http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/m/montherlant_h.shtml Good article from a German encyclopedia (Bibliography)]<br />
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<div>'''Henry de Montherlant''' (* 20. April 1895, † 21. September 1972, both in Paris) was an important [[:Category:People: French|French]] [[:Category:People: Popular Authors|author]] of plays, essays, and novels, whose life and work bear the marks of his attraction to [[boy]]s.<br />
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==Youth==<br />
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Henry Marie Joseph Frédéric Expedite Millon de Montherlant was born in Paris on April 20, 1895 into a well-to-do family, which was catholic and royalist in a way that had already started to look antiquated. In particular his father, a mere ''inspecteur des finances'' sported a conspicious backwardness. He was, however, of little importance for his son, who associated intimately only with his mother and grand-mother. His mother was gifted and cheerful. After giving birth to her only child she had to stay in bed until her early death in 1915. So her whole life revolved around her son. Once for instance, she read with him in the evening before bed-time, the novel «Quo vadis», a world-wide bestseller of the time, in a bowdlerized edition. The eight-year old was fascinated, particularly by the free-thinker Petronius.<br />
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At first he was educated at home. In 1905, he entered the ''sixième'' of the lycée Janson-de-Sailly, where he befriended J.-N. Faure-Biguet. Both rivalled each other in the composition of little stories, which he lovingly copied and illustrated, complete with imprint, copyright and advertisment pages. During his life he would keep an interest in both the pecuniary and the aesthetic side of book production.<br />
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In 1907 the family, grand-parents and six servants included, moved to a large house in Neuilly, near the Bois de Boulogne. For the next four years, Montherlant visited the cosy private school Saint-Pierre de Neuilly. Louis Aragon, who was his companion there remembers:<br />
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And then I can show Guy [Montherlant] what I had written, my verses. And he is surprised that I should have read more than he, in spite of his being twelve years old at that time, against my eleven, and he even sort of admires me, although it amuses him that I speak of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the year that I prepare my First Communion. . . ''(Aragon, le Mentir-vrai, 37, quoted by Sipriot, I, 143)''<br />
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In these years he fell passionately in love with several fellow pupils, according to Faure-Biguet, who also writes that in his room at home the pictures on the wall showed nothing but children.<br />
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During a stay at Bayonne, where he accompanied his grand-mother on a pilgrimage to Lourdes, he sneaked away to attend a bull-fight, still sanguinary at the time, and a new lasting passion grew out of this. Later he would stay in Spain for a long vacation and make some experiences for himself.<br />
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In order to be better prepared for the final examinations, the ''baccalauréat'', a change of school was deemed necessary. Montherlant coaxed his mother (he was sick at the time) into allowing him to follow two fellow pupils he was endeared with to the «liberal» catholic collège Sainte-Croix de Neuilly. To compensate for the dangerously leftist climate at this institution he was given a particularly reactionary Jesuit as a confessor, who, it seems, more or less kept his friend Faure-Biguet informed about the following . . .<br />
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The following time he would forever remember a his happiest. His old school had been familiar and intimate, but at the new one he soon discovered a secret underground world of forbidden and, as far as we knew, quite sensual friendships between younger and older pupils. He enjoys his life there thoroughly, later in life regretting only to have spent any time at all on his lessons.<br />
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In March 1912, only a few months before the final examinations, Montherlant was expelled from school. His father, characteristically, would never been told; his mother and grand-mother, however, were privy, to a degree, to his intimate life; he wrote, e.g., quite open letters to his grand-mother. It is not unusual in this times to extend a certain tolerance in this respect, as Julien Green remembers with respect to his own first love.<br />
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Now Montherlant experienced a great void; he takes private tution towards his exams, shortly tries the university, works as a clerk. Then his parents die, the war commences. He managed half to avoid, half to partake in it remotely at the end.<br />
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His first book he wrote in the army. La relève du matin appeared 1920, at first in a private edition as nobody would publish him; but then it is favourably received and soon a commercial publisher took it up. Montherlant has gotten a name. His subject: boys. You remember, the ''century of the child'' is barely twenty years old.<br />
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==Les garçons==<br />
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The novel ''Les garçons'' (Boys) was his last major work. Based, only half-autobiographically, on the story of his expulsion from Ste-Croix de Neuilly, it is central to his life and writing and one might consider it his closing gift to the world. In a first sketch, it dates back to 1914.<br />
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In fact, one can distinguish four manuscript stages: of 1914, 1929 (printed in the notes for the critical edition, pp. 1377–1396), 1947 and the final revision, which took place from 1965–1969. When the novel was published in 1969, it was still bowdlerized; Michel Raymond, who prepared the critical edition for the ''Bibliothèque de la Pléiade'', gives a list of deletions in his notes, which make for an amusing reading.<br />
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It challenged Montherlant to make a play out of this stuff, too. The result is ''La ville dont le prince est un enfant'', which appeared in 1951. Characteristically, Montherlant withhold the permission for a theatralical performance for a long time. But when it was given for the first time in Paris, 1967–1971 it met with considerable success (400, according to other sources even 1000 performances).<br />
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Early on, however, the play had been staged abroad and by student companies. It also sold exceptionally good, and Montherlant devoted half of the 1967 edition of it (coll. Folio) to collect mostly appreciative voices from this period, «in case the wind changes.» Although the play is not in any sense explicit, this very positive reception is a striking and nowadays almost unbelieveable fact.<br />
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The French (state) television produced La ville as a prominent feature in 1997, directed by Christophe Malavoy who also played the major adult part, the abbé de Pradts. It is a successful and faithful adaptation that is well played and also meticulously reproduces the period character. Of course, the «will not to know» is at work here, perhaps together with a cultural heritage that allows for some licence, albeit only on a strictly literary level.<br />
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Both, the play and the novel share the fundamental dramatic conflict: the intimate friendship of two pupils runs afoul of the love and jealousy of a teacher (the abbé de Pradts). This happens in a catholic collège before the First World War. These collèges were then private establishments, and Montherlant, although not a believer, felt himself (as an old boy) very much attracted to the particular climate of these institutions.<br />
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What is condensed to 36 hours in the play grows to a temporarily and thematically far-reaching story in the novel. The major extensions are the description of the pederastic subculture (the ''protection''), the realtionship between the boy Alban (Montherlant's alter ego) and his mother, the story of de Pradts, the boys' opponent, which is continued until his death, and the boys' romance, described with much discretion but also with considerable weight.<br />
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Ils prirent un fiacre. Serge enleva sa casquette, mit ses pieds sur le petit strapontin de devant, et ainsi, à demi étendu, un peu recroquevillé, s'appuya sur Alban. Il était à sa gauche, et le bras de son camarade l'entourait et l'enserrait avec force, tandis qu'il s'installait à petits coups, inoubliablement . . . « Mon petit corps ! Mon petit corps ! »<br />
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Mais quand Alban commença de le baiser au visage et dans le cheveux, il eut d'abord, surpris peut-être par la violence de ces baisers, peut-être par cette même obscurité qui enhardissait son partenaire, ou bien comme s'il ne voulait voir ce qui se passait, un réflexe de gosselot de neuf ans, tout frais en ces choses : cachant sa figure sur ses petit pattes tachées d'encre, tout de même qu'un boxeur se couvre, ou qu'un jeune chat croise ses pattes par-dessus la sienne, avec un fou rire, le petit rire saccadé, ininterrompu et bête, de quelqu'un qui est mal à l'aise. Et peu à peu, dans une absolu silence, les main levées s'abaissèrent et le rire cessa. Alors il s'étira, se poussa, s'encoigna, s'installa encore un peu plus, et Alban le serrait toujours davantage contre soi, remontant ses mèches, dénudant ce front imprévu, grattant le sommet de sa nuque, (mais quid de la célèbre bosse, révélatrice de lubricité infinie ? Rien, il faut le dire, rien . . .), découvrant un nouveau visage, qu'on ne connaissait pas, qui n'était qu'à lui seul, et qui les lumières de l'avenue tantôt éclairaient, tantôt rejetaient dans l'ombre. « J'aurai enfin vu tourné vers moi ce visage que je ne jamais vu tourné que vers ce qui n'est pas moi. » et c'était, pour l'un et pour l'autre, la première fois des gestes qu'ils allaient recommencer toute leur vie.<br />
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Alban : Jamais je n'aurais cru que nous nous trouverions un jour dans cette situation.<br />
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Serge : Moi non plus, jamais ! Et dire qu'il y a quinze jours, tu m'as dit que je te dégoûtais . . .<br />
[Les garçons, ''Romans II'', p.550) <br />
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They took a carriage. Serge lifted his cap, put his feet on the little folding-seat in front of him, and thus, half-streched and a bit crooked, he leaned against Alban. He sat on the left, and the arm of his companion embraced him and pulled him with strength while he adjusted himself in the seat with little jerks. Alban would never forget these movements . . . «This little body! This little body!»<br />
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But when Alban started to kiss his face and hair he reacted in the first moment—perhaps surprised by the violence of these kisses or perhaps because of the darkness that made his partner bold or even in order not to see what happened—like a little boy of nine years, for whom this is all new: he hid his face in his small ink-stained fists, like a boxer who covers himself or a young cat who crosses its paws, and laughed the abrupt and silly and endless laughter of someone who feels not at ease. But slowly he became quiet, the raised hands sunk, the laughter stopped. Then he strechted himself, pushed against Alban, slid a little further into his corner. Alban pulled him even nearer, pushed his hair out of his eyes to see his forehead for the first time, rubbed his neck (but what about that famous bump, revealing an unlimited sensuality? Nothing, we have to admit, nothing . . .), discovered a new face, as yet unknown to him, a face only for him to behold, and which the lights of the avenue now illuminated, now threw back into darkness. »Finally I have seen this face looking at me, which I never saw but looking elsewhere.» And both of them started those gestures that they would recommence for the rest of their lives.<br />
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Alban: I would have never thought that we should find us some day in this situation.<br />
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Serge: Nor did I, never! And to think that a fortnight ago you told me that I made you sick . . . <br />
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The novel ends with the death of the abbé de Pradts. Dying he looks back. Through the open window he hears the sound of boys playing soccer and on a wall that is covered with boys' photos he looks at those «who during his life had relieved one another—like the little pieces of cork that hold a fishing-net on the surface of the sea they had held him on the surface of his life.»<br />
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==Select Bibliography==<br />
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===Some Works===<br />
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* Montherlant's Œuvres appeared already during his lifetime in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in four volumes.<br />
* La relève du matin.-- Paris, 1920, Paris, 1973 (Coll. Folio) [text of the extended edition of 1963 ]<br />
* La ville dont le prince est un enfant. [Play] His oldest work, dating back to 1913. – Paris: Gallimard, 1951; 1957 [revised text, added appendixes]; 1967 [text revised for the Parisian performance] ; 1973 (coll. Folio). – The appendixes contain material about the early performances and the reception of the play just in case that the wind changes. (M.)<br />
* La ville dont le prince est un enfant. [movie] Directed by Christophe Malavoy (1997). See [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120453/combined IMDB]<br />
* Les Garçons. -- Paris, Gallimard, 1969 [bowdlerized text; complete for the first time in a luxury edition 1973] authoritative text in Romans II, edited by Michel Raimond (1982, Pléiade) pp. 429–842, notes and variants pp. 1360–1494. On pp. 1377–1396 the manuscript of 1929 is printed. The manuscript of 1947 is summarised; in addition Montherlant's deletions from the first edition are given, and make for amusing reading.<br />
* Boys : a novel / translated by Terence Kilmartin. – London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1974. – xi, 281 p. ; 22 cm. – ISBN: 0297994174 (Translation of Les Garçons. — This is apparently the only edition; an expensive collector's item.) <br />
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===Biographical===<br />
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* Correspondance [letters] / Henry de Montherlant, Roger Peyrefitte. – Paris: Laffont, 1983<br />
* Pierre Sipriot: Montherlant sans masque. – Paris: Laffont. – 2 vols.: 1. L'enfant prodigue : 1895–1932., 1982; 2. Écris avec ton sang : 1932–1972.,1990. – Biography. Vol. 2 has an index.<br />
* Album Montherlant / iconographie réunie et commentée par Pierre Sipriot. – Paris: Gallimard, 1979. (Bibliothèque de la Pléiade)<br />
* Faure-Biguet, J.-N. (Jacques Napoléon): Les enfances de Montherlant. – Paris: Plon 1941; ²Paris: Lefebvre, 1948. — Reminiscences of a boyhood friend.<br />
* Peyrefitte, Roger: Propos secrets. – Paris: Laffont. – vol. 1.: 1977 ; vol. 2.: 1980 — Reminiscences of a longtime acquaintance. <br />
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===Internet Resources===<br />
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* [http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/m/montherlant_h.shtml Good article from a German encyclopedia (Bibliography)]<br />
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<div>'''Oscar Wilde''' (1854 - 1900) was a British writer. He is famous for titles like ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' as well as his affection for [[boy]]s, which landed him in prison in 1895. Specifically, he was convicted of charges of sodomy that were brought in response to a lawsuit he filed against the Marquis of Queensbury. He sued the marquis for libel in connection with a note the the marquis wrote accusing Wilde of "posing as a sodomite." Wilde and the marquis' son, Lord Alfred Douglas, then in his early 20s, were lovers. Wilde was convicted on charges related to Douglas, though the most sensational portions of the trial related to testimony that he consorted with older adolescents and young men of the working class. Because gentlemen did not, by the standards of the day, socialize with working people, the Crown lead the jury to assume that the contacts Wilde had with these young men had to be sexual in nature.<br />
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Wilde penned what some have described as his most poignant poem, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," while incarcerated at heavy labor on the sodomy conviction. After his release, Wilde and Douglas spent time together in Greece and Paris. Wilde had become nearly destitute and their relationship became very troubled, leading to periods of separation and reconciliation. Wilde died alone in a Paris boarding house three years after his release from Reading Gaol.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
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* Born 16 October 1854 in Dublin<br />
* 1884 Marriage with Constance Lloyd, with whom he had two sons, Cyril (*1885) and Vyvyan (*1886).<br />
* 25 May 1895, sentenced to prison on a charge of sodomy<br />
* 1897 released from prison due to his illness<br />
* Died 30 November 1900 in Paris <br />
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==Famous works==<br />
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* The Portrait of Mr. W. H. 1889<br />
* The Picture of Dorian Gray 1891<br />
* The Importance of Being Earnest 1895 <br />
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==External links==<br />
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* [http://www.oscarwildecollection.com The Oscar Wilde Collection]<br />
* [http://www.ucc.ie/celt/et19wilde.html Collected works]<br />
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<div>'''John Robin Sharpe''' (ca. 1933- ) is a Canadian writer, world traveler and [[boylover]]. Sharpe is particularly noted for successfully challenging several portions of Canada's [[Child Pornography (Wikipedia)|child pornography]] laws. He was also the first Canadian citizen to mount a successful constitutional challenge without legal representation.<br />
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==Life and career==<br />
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Sharpe grew up in Victoria, British Columbia. A bursary from the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire, enabled him to go to university and studied architecture. He eventually gave up architecture and got interested in economics and political science and took postgraduate work in town planning. Sharpe provided an account of his career in his website:<br />
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''"After working a dozen years as a planner in various parts of Canada he became a group home parent, got divorced, worked a dozen years as a self employed home renovation contractor, became a foster father, taught economics and social studies for four years at a visa college, and began writing and traveling at the age of fifty."''<br />
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Sharpe also travelled extensively to the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand and recorded his experiences in Manilamanic: A Philippine Journal (2002). His writings, which often follow the transgressive traditions of Marquis de Sade and D.H. Lawrence, have appeared in the homosexually-themed magazines Passport and Sodomite Invasion Review. Sharpe is also known as an advocate for the legalization of recreational drugs and sexual relations between adults and minors.<br />
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Since April 1995 he has been working as a defendant in his continuing legal troubles.<br />
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==Legal troubles==<br />
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Sharpe was arrested and charged with two counts of possessing child pornography and two counts of distributing child pornography in 1995 after police raided his apartment and found photographs of adolescents involved in sexual activity and journals and manuscripts depicting fictitious adolescents engaged in sexual activity. In January 1999, he was acquitted of the charge of possession of child pornography by the British Columbia Supreme Court and, in May 1999, the British Columbia Court of Appeal upheld the ruling by a 2-1 vote. The Court of Appeal stated that current child pornography laws "[are] truly one step removed from criminalizing simply having objectionable thoughts." Shortly thereafter, British Columbia appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada which, in the landmark ruling of R. v. Sharpe in January 2001, upheld most of the child pornography law but said that people can't be prosecuted for creating works of their own imagination for their own use.<br />
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The case went back to the British Columbia Supreme Court which ruled in March 2002 that Sharpe was not guilty of possession of child pornography related to his sexually-explicit writings but was guilty of two counts of possession of pornographic pictures of children. He was sentenced to four months of house arrest. British Columbia Supreme Court Judge Duncan Shaw condemned Sharpe's writings as "morally repugnant" but defended them as within Sharpe's legal rights because they "[did] not actively advocate or counsel the reader to engage in the acts described" and had "artistic merit". The ruling angered many family and child advocacy groups who claimed the "artistic merit" defense would open the door to wide-spread distribution of child pornography and limit the abilities of police forces to crack down on actual child exploitation, therefore placing children at risk.<br />
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Later in 2002, Sharpe was arrested again on the charges of gross indecency and indecent assault stemming from abuses which took place from 1979 to 1982. Pictures of the sexually abused teenager, who was aged 11 through 14 during the assaults, were among the over 500 for which he had been previously charged. In 2004, Sharpe was found guilty of indecent assault and sentenced to two years in prison, which he has promised to appeal. He has maintained that the boy was never harmed and wanted to have sex. During the trial, the victim said, "I like Robin, but if somebody did that to my kids, I'd want to kill him."<br />
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==List of works==<br />
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* Rupert Unexpurgated (1983), semi-autobiographical novel<br />
* Peter's Path (1986), novel<br />
* Robin's Rude Songs and Poems (1990), poetry<br />
* Politically Incorrect Poems and Songs (1992), poetry<br />
* Life on the Corner: The Moon Eyed Beggar's Tale (1996), novel<br />
* Recent Accumulations and Appropriated Voices (1997), poetry<br />
* Remnants and Recoveries (1998), poetry<br />
* Sam Paloc's BOYABUSE: Flogging, Fun & Fortitude 1982-1994 (2002), short stories<br />
* Manilamanic: A Philippine Journal (2002), journals and prose<br />
* R. v. Sharpe: A Personal Account (2002), personal account <br />
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==External links==<br />
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* [http://www.robinsharpe.ca Robin Sharpe's Official website]<br />
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<div>'''Free Spirits''' (FS) is an organization formed to promote open communication among [[boylover]]s. It grew out of a need to ensure the continued existence of [[BoyChat]], but has since sponsored various other resources. It is named after Kasper's Free Spirits web site, which was one of the first Web pages on the Internet created to celebrate boylove, and the original home of BoyChat.<br />
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Free Spirits does not take any stance on boylove issues nor does it advocate any position or ideology, but simply exists to provide the infrastructure and support to ensure that its resources are able to be run securely and continuously. The Free Spirits Committee ([[FSC]]) plans and carries out all FS initiatives.<br />
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== Free Spirits Committee ==<br />
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The Free Spirits Committee (or FSC) is the group responsible for providing and managing a host for all resources under the Free Spirits umbrella. FSC members determine the overarching policies by which resources must abide. These policies are designed to help ensure the security, legality and usefulness of Free Spirits resources. FSC members are generally drawn from contributors to, and administrators of, Free Spirits resources. There is no limit to the number of members who may be on the committee at any time.<br />
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=== History ===<br />
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The FSC arose out of the BoyChat Steering Committee founded by Jimf3 and the name "Free Spirits Committee" was in use by late 1997. In its early years, the FSC struggled to bring into operation its own web server to give Free Spirits more independence from commercial ISP's and the webmaster of BoyChat was automatically the chairman of the committee.<br />
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As Free Spirits took on more projects, many of them hosted under FPC, it eventually became clear that one committee could no longer oversee all its projects and still concentrate on maintaining the most important objective, which was connectivity for those projects.<br />
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By December of 1999, the FSC began to invest in quasi-independent groups and individuals to maintain and set policy for each resource it hosts. After its emergence from the Great Outage in 2001, the FSC has maintained a policy that allows each resource to govern itself based on a set of rules they must abide by.<br />
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The primary activities of the FSC today include registering domains, ensuring continued hosting of FS sites, determining general site policy, communicating with outside bodies, providing technical support for the various resources as well as the operation and maintenance of Free Spirits servers.<br />
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=== Current Members ===<br />
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Membership of the FSC is subject to change. Current members as of 20 January 2007 are:<br />
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* Atom<br />
* Fleetwood<br />
* HÃnandil<br />
* Maintenance Elf<br />
* Sentinel<br />
* 1 Anonymous member <br />
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The FSC can be contacted by email at fsc|freespirits|org. <br />
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== Current Free Spirits resources ==<br />
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* [http://www.boychat.org/ BoyChat ] <br />
* [http://www.boylinks.net/ BoyLinks]<br />
* [http://www.boywiki.org/ BoyWiki] <br />
* [http://freespirits.org/bw/ BoyWrite] <br />
* [http://www.castilloazul.org/ El Castillo Azul] <br />
* [http://www.legarcon.net/ La Garçonnière] <br />
* [http://www.jongensforum.net/ Jongensforum] <br />
* [http://jungsforum.net/ Jungsforum] <br />
* [http://freespirits.org/lifeline/ LifeLine]<br />
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== Former Free Spirits resources ==<br />
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Since its founding, Free Spirits has implemented many different projects as they were called for by the community. Some, like Christian Boylove Forum, flourished and eventually left for their own hosting arrangements and others, like Libertad, failed soon after opening.<br />
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* [http://www.cblf.org/ Christian Boylove Forum] <br />
* Close Encounters<br />
* Freedom Board [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://freespirits.org/freedom/ Archives for 2002-2007 ]<br />
* Free Paed Cooperative [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.fpc.net/ Archives for 1997-2007 ]<br />
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== Current hosted sites ==<br />
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* [http://freespirits.org/blogo/ BLogo Official Site] <br />
* [http://www.pedagora.com/ Pedagora]<br />
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== Former hosted sites ==<br />
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* [http://www.annabelleigh.net/ GirlChat] <br />
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== External links ==<br />
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* [http://freespirits.org/ Free Spirits homepage]<br />
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<div>The '''online community of childlovers''' is a term generally used to apply to those [[childlover]]s who interact with other childlovers via Internet, either on the World Wide Web or through other media such as chat or Internet streaming radio. It may be seen as a subset of the larger childlove community throughout the world.<br />
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Because of the [[:Category:Hysteria|intense persecution]] of childlovers and because of the greater anonymity offered by the Internet, many [[boylover]]s and [[girllover]]s feel more comfortable finding friends and confidants online than in real life. As such, the online childlove community has prospered over the last few decades, giving birth to some very central places in the minds and hearts of many of the participants.<br />
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==Message boards==<br />
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One of the most popular ways to participate in the online childlove community is through message boards (also known as Bulletin Board System-style, or BBS-style, forums). These are websites (for example, [[BoyChat]]) in which posters write messages to one another. The messages remain available for long periods of time while other posters read and respond to them.<br />
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==Real-time chat==<br />
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Another common way of interacting with the online community is via real-time chat services such as that offered by websites such as [[LifeLine]], instant messaging services, and IRC. These communities have the advantage of permitting instant response and reaction to one's communications, with the disadvantage of being fleetingly ephemeral with regards to their content. IRC, along with Usenet, was the core of the online BL community before the rise in popularity of BL message boards.<br />
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==Usenet==<br />
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Usenet, often simply referred to as "newsgroups" was arguably the birthplace of the Online CL community and remains a very large part of it. IRC was also a spawning ground of the movement as we know it today, but USENET came first and probably had a much larger user base. Newsgroups are essentially threaded collections of messages similar to email. The messages are formatted according the NNTP protocol. Usenet is typically accessed with a specialized "newsreader" although some HTTP sites allow web access to some groups.<br />
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alt.support.boylover was a very popular newsgroup in the early and mid [[:Category:History & Events: 1990s|1990s]] and was probably the inspiration for BoyChat and resultant popularity of web-based message boards. The group still exists today but sees very little traffic.<br />
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Childlove content on Usenet today is typically centered around collections of media. Photographs and video files are shared in certain newsgroups. Child pornography involving nude youths and youths in graphic sexual settings is readily available in addition to content in groups that offer media of a more legal nature.<br />
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==See also==<br />
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*[[Childlover]]<br />
*[[Boylover]]<br />
*[[Girllover]]<br />
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[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Terminology]][[Category:Terminology: Childlove]][[Category:History & Events: 1990s]][[Category:Countries and Cultures]][[Category:Countries and Cultures: Subcultures]]</div>Citizen 2416https://www.newgon.net/wiki/index.php?title=Minor_attracted_community&diff=2127Minor attracted community2008-10-24T10:19:42Z<p>Citizen 2416: New page: The '''online community of childlovers''' is a term generally used to apply to those childlovers who interact with other childlovers via Internet, either on the World Wide Web or throu...</p>
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<div>The '''online community of childlovers''' is a term generally used to apply to those [[childlover]]s who interact with other childlovers via Internet, either on the World Wide Web or through other media such as chat or Internet streaming radio. It may be seen as a subset of the larger childlove community throughout the world.<br />
<br />
Because of the [[:Category:Hysteria|intense persecution]] of childlovers and because of the greater anonymity offered by the Internet, many [[boylover]]s and [[girllover]]s feel more comfortable finding friends and confidants online than in real life. As such, the online childlove community has prospered over the last few decades, giving birth to some very central places in the minds and hearts of many of the participants.<br />
<br />
==Message boards==<br />
<br />
One of the most popular ways to participate in the online childlove community is through message boards (also known as Bulletin Board System-style, or BBS-style, forums). These are websites (for example, [[BoyChat]]) in which posters write messages to one another. The messages remain available for long periods of time while other posters read and respond to them.<br />
<br />
==Real-time chat==<br />
<br />
Another common way of interacting with the online community is via real-time chat services such as that offered by websites such as [[LifeLine]], instant messaging services, and IRC. These communities have the advantage of permitting instant response and reaction to one's communications, with the disadvantage of being fleetingly ephemeral with regards to their content. IRC, along with Usenet, was the core of the online BL community before the rise in popularity of BL message boards.<br />
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==Usenet==<br />
<br />
Usenet, often simply referred to as "newsgroups" was arguably the birthplace of the Online CL community and remains a very large part of it. IRC was also a spawning ground of the movement as we know it today, but USENET came first and probably had a much larger user base. Newsgroups are essentially threaded collections of messages similar to email. The messages are formatted according the NNTP protocol. Usenet is typically accessed with a specialized "newsreader" although some HTTP sites allow web access to some groups.<br />
<br />
alt.support.boylover was a very popular newsgroup in the early and mid [[:Category:History & Events: 1990s|1990s]] and was probably the inspiration for BoyChat and resultant popularity of web-based message boards. The group still exists today but sees very little traffic.<br />
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Childlove content on Usenet today is typically centered around collections of media. Photographs and video files are shared in certain newsgroups. Child pornography involving nude youths and youths in graphic sexual settings is readily available in addition to content in groups that offer media of a more legal nature.<br />
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==See also==<br />
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*[[Childlover]]<br />
*[[Boylover]]<br />
*[[Girllover]]<br />
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[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Terminology]][[Category:Terminology: Childlover]][[Category:History & Events: 1990s]][[Category:Countries and Cultures]][[Category:Countries and Cultures: Subcultures]]</div>Citizen 2416https://www.newgon.net/wiki/index.php?title=Youth_liberation_movement&diff=2097Youth liberation movement2008-10-23T22:39:59Z<p>Citizen 2416: New page: The '''Child liberation movement''' works to give minors the same rights that adults have. ==External links== *http://www.tmcrew.org/mw4k/index.htm *http://www.oblivion.net/you...</p>
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<div>The '''Child liberation movement''' works to give [[minor|minors]] the same rights that adults have.<br />
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==External links==<br />
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*http://www.tmcrew.org/mw4k/index.htm<br />
*http://www.oblivion.net/youthspeak/<br />
*http://www.asfar.org/<br />
*http://youthsexualfreedom.org<br />
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[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Youth]][[Category:Sociological Theory]]</div>Citizen 2416https://www.newgon.net/wiki/index.php?title=Minor&diff=2096Minor2008-10-23T22:09:10Z<p>Citizen 2416: New page: A '''minor''' is a person who is under the age of majority in his or her jurisdiction. The age of majority may or may not be the same as the age of consent. The [[child liberation mov...</p>
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<div>A '''minor''' is a person who is under the age of majority in his or her jurisdiction. The age of majority may or may not be the same as the [[age of consent]].<br />
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The [[child liberation movement]] works to give minors increased rights. The movement sees the illegality of sexual relations with and between youth as only part of a larger injustice toward them. Activists endeavor to give minors rights such as voting in addition to the right to decide over their own bodies.<br />
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==See also==<br />
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*[[Age of consent]]<br />
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[[Category:Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Category:Youth]][[Category:Category:Child Advocacy]][[Category:Category:Terminology]][[Category:Category:Terminology: Popular]]</div>Citizen 2416https://www.newgon.net/wiki/index.php?title=Coming_out&diff=2095Coming out2008-10-23T21:50:43Z<p>Citizen 2416: </p>
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<div>'''Coming out''' or '''outing oneself''' (a common short form of the expression "coming out of the closet") describes the voluntary or involuntary announcement of one's sexual orientation to one person, to a group of people, or to the public at large.<br />
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The term originates with the expression "coming out of the closet" (shortened to coming out) as used in the [[gay]] community from the late 1960s. In the 1990s the gay media routinely forced celebrities "out of the closet", calling the practice "outing". In [[childlover]] usage, the media need not be involved.<br />
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==To come out or not to come out?==<br />
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Among childlovers, this is an area of contention. Many feel that one's sexual orientation is a large part of who he is, and keeping it secret is a cause of stress, shame, and often depression. Most agree that in an ideal society, one should not have to hide what he thinks of as a harmless and innate personal attribute.<br />
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===Arguments against coming out===<br />
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Many question the wisdom of disclosing one's childlove to a non-childlover. They argue that the benefits do not outweigh the risks incurred from a society rife with hysteria, and emphasize risks such as:<br />
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*The person told may disapprove strongly, and dissolve the friendship or other relation to the childlover.<br />
*The person told, whether approving or not, may tell others who were not intended to know.<br />
*The knowledge may be used against the childlover, either to blackmail him or to falsely accuse him of sexual crime.<br />
*It is impossible to undo an outing, and this fact may create undesirable situations in the future as friendships change.<br />
*A person who is known to be a childlover is likely to be unemployable and therefore unable to financially support himself. <br />
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===Advice on coming out===<br />
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Those who argue for coming out often acknowledge these risks, but emphasize that coming out should be a long and well thought-out process. Some of the advice offered is:<br />
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*Come out only to a very select few, and only those who you have very high confidence in and who you know are open minded and reasonable. This may, and perhaps should, be one single person, at least to start with.<br />
*"Test" the person in advance to find out what their reaction is likely to be. For instance, you can show them relevant news articles or talk carefully about known childlovers or the notion of childlove. If this does not turn out well, abort.<br />
*If you have [[young friend|young friends]] or otherwise deal with children, demonstrate that you behave properly and are popular with the children.<br />
*Rehearse beforehand; pick words carefully so as not to be misunderstood.<br />
*Come out at a time and in a situation when it feels natural.<br />
*Keep in mind that though someone can seem accepting at first, people often change their minds or hide their true feelings. In particular, close family members may initially appear to be supportive, but could later decide to come against you in an effort to protect children. <br />
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Even childlovers who consider themselves to be "out" should carefully consider just how many people really know about their sexual orientation. For example, "coming out" by posting one's real name on a message board is not the same as coming out by publicly announcing one's sexual orientation on a national television broadcast. Thus, being "out" as a childlover is a matter of degrees and not a simple dichotomy.<br />
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==See also==<br />
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*[[Outing]]<br />
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