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== Live-action movies == | == Live-action movies == | ||
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* '''Beau-pere''' (Bertrand Blier, 1981) <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | * '''Beau-pere''' (Bertrand Blier, 1981) <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | ||
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* '''Short Eyes''' (1977, Robert M. Young) <span style="color: magenta">('''N/A''')</span> | * '''Short Eyes''' (1977, Robert M. Young) <span style="color: magenta">('''N/A''')</span> | ||
** A young man who is charged with child molestation is placed in New York City's infamous Tombs prison. When the other inmates in his cell block find out what he is charged with, life becomes extremely difficult for him. | ** A young man who is charged with child molestation is placed in New York City's infamous Tombs prison. When the other inmates in his cell block find out what he is charged with, life becomes extremely difficult for him. | ||
* '''A Taste of Honey''' (Tony Richardson, 1961) adapted from the 1958 play of the same name by Shelagh Delaney. <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | |||
** 17-year-old schoolgirl Jo begins a relationship with black sailor Jimmy as she moves into a run-down area of Salford with her self-centred, promiscuous, alcoholic mother. The relationship leaves Jo pregnant and alone, as she struggles with the imminent birth. | |||
* '''Kung Fu Master''' (Agnès Varda, 1988) <span style="color: blue">('''WB''')</span> | |||
** The drama stars the protagonist, Mary-Jane, befriending and flirting with her daughter's friend, 14-year-old Julien, beginning a close relationship between the two. | |||
* '''Birth''' (Johnathan Glazer, 2004) <span style="color: blue">('''WB''')</span> | |||
** 30-year-old Anna makes out with a 10-year-old boy, whom she is convinced is the reincarnation of her deceased husband Sean. | |||
* '''Manhattan''' (Woody Allen, 1979) <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | |||
** Twice-divorced 42-year-old comedy writer Isaac Davis dates 17-year-old Tracy. After breaking up with her, and ending up in a failed affair with his friend's mistress, he runs back to Tracy. | |||
* '''The Lifeguard''' (Liz W. Garcia, 2013) <span style="color: blue">('''WB''')</span> | |||
** 30-year-old Leigh takes up her new job as a community pool lifeguard at her friend's high school, where she falls in love with the maintenance man's son, 16-year-old Jason. | |||
* '''The Reader''' (Stephen Daldry, 2008) based on the book of the same title, written by Bernhard Schlink <span style="color: blue">('''WB''')</span> | |||
** In 1958 West Germany, after 15-year-old Michael Berg falls ill on his way home, he gets helped by 36-year-old tram conductor Hanna Schmitz, with whom he begins a heated but short-lived affair. Years later, he now holds a secret that only he knows. | |||
* '''Tadpole''' (Gary Winick, 2002) <span style="color: blue">('''WB''')</span> | |||
** 15-year-old precocious boy Oscar Grubman tries to seduce his stepmother Eve, and has a tryst with Diane, Eve's friend. | |||
* '''Notes on a scandal''' (Richard Eyre, 2006) <span style="color: blue">('''WB''')</span> | |||
** Teacher Sheba has an illicit affair with her 15-year-old student, which is discovered by her colleague Barbara. Nowhere in the movie is the boy implied to be harmed by affair. | |||
* '''Copenhagen''' (Mark Raso, 2014) <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | |||
** 28-year-old William travels to Copenhagen to find out about his lost father. On the way, he develops a relationship with 14-year-old Effy, who is doing her grammar school internship at an hotel. Although William does reciprocate Effy's feelings, he still hesitates to due to her age. | |||
* '''This is England''' (Shane Meadows, 2006) <span style="color: blue">('''WB''')</span> | |||
** A troubled 12-year-old boy living in 80s England becomes the member of a skinhead gang after the death of his father in the Falkland War. Among the members of the gang he meets an older woman nicknamed Smell, offering to become her boyfriend. | |||
== Western animation == | == Western animation == | ||
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* '''The Original of Laura''' (Vladimir Nabokov, 2009) <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | * '''The Original of Laura''' (Vladimir Nabokov, 2009) <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | ||
** Nabokov’s unfinished manuscript, some of the passages describe a man’s obsession with an unknown pubescent girl. | ** Nabokov’s unfinished manuscript, some of the passages describe a man’s obsession with an unknown pubescent girl. | ||
* '''The lover''' (Marguerite Duras, 1984) <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | * '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080314224734/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_lover%20The%20Lover The lover]''' (Marguerite Duras, 1984) <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | ||
** | ** A semi-autobiographical novel recounting the author’s life in French Indochina, including her first sexual and romantic relationship with an old and rich Chinese-Vietnamese man, whilst she was 15. | ||
* '''One Hundred Years of Solitude''' ([[Gabriel_Garcia_Marquez|Gabriel García Márquez]], 1967) <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | |||
* '''One Hundred Years of Solitude''' (Gabriel García Márquez, 1967) <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | |||
** The patriarch’s second son, a warrior figure, courts a 7-year-old girl and consummates her at 9. | ** The patriarch’s second son, a warrior figure, courts a 7-year-old girl and consummates her at 9. | ||
* '''Love in the time of Cholera''' (Gabriel García Márquez, 1985) <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | * '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20071225230354/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_in_the_Time_of_Cholera Love in the time of Cholera]''' ([[Gabriel_Garcia_Marquez|Gabriel García Márquez]], 1985) <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | ||
** A male in his 70s has a relationship with a 14-year-old girl. | ** A male in his 70s has a relationship with a 14-year-old girl. | ||
* '''Memories of My Melancholy Whores''' (Gabriel García Márquez, 2004) <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | * '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20071022132953/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memories_of_My_Melancholy_Whores Memories of My Melancholy Whores]''' ([[Gabriel_Garcia_Marquez|Gabriel García Márquez]], 2004) <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | ||
** A love story between a 90-year-old man and a 14-year-old female prostitute. | ** A love story between a 90-year-old man and a 14-year-old female prostitute. | ||
* '''Of Love and Other Demons''' (Gabriel García Márquez, 1994) <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | * '''Of Love and Other Demons''' ([[Gabriel_Garcia_Marquez|Gabriel García Márquez]], 1994) <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | ||
** A priest falls in love with a dead 12-year-old girl. | ** A priest falls in love with a dead 12-year-old girl. | ||
* '''Death in Venice''' (Thomas Mann, 1912) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | * '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_in_Venice Death in Venice]''' ([[Thomas Mann]], 1912) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | ||
** An ennobled artist in Venice becomes increasingly obsessed at the sight of a teenage Polish boy. | ** An ennobled artist in Venice becomes increasingly obsessed at the sight of a teenage Polish boy. | ||
* '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Persian_Boy The Persian Boy]''' ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Renault Mary Renault], 1972) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Mary Renault was famous for her romantic novels on [[Pederasty]] in Ancient Greece. ''The Persian Boy'' was a bestseller within the [[Historical_examples_of_LGBT-MAP_unity|Gay community]], providing a sympathetic portrait of homosexual love through a relationship between Bagoas (16) and Alexander (then about 25). Renault depicts the attachment as lasting until Alexander's death, when Bagoas would have been about 23. | |||
* '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_of_the_Wine The Last of the Wine]''' ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Renault Mary Renault], 1956) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Another bestseller within the Gay community. Renault's first novel set in Ancient Greece tells the love story of Alexias, a beautiful and noble Athenian youth and Socrates' student, who is desired and pursued by a number of older males because of his beauty. Alexias falls in love with Lysis, a male champion wrestler and student of Socrates in his 20s. Alexias's father approves of their relationship, which the novel follows through important historical events, ending by hinting at the eventual trial of Socrates for teaching blasphemy and sowing social disorder. | |||
*'''[https://annas-archive.org/md5/505cfa6c9e7846354109bde7cf459acb Street Boy Dreams]''' ([[Kevin Esser]], 1983) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Described as "best selling", Esser's book "was prasised for its honesty, subtlety and strength in narrating the relationship of a thirty-five year old teacher and a thirteen year old Hispanic street tough".<ref>Quote from the back cover of Kevin Esser, ''Mad to Be Saved'' (Gay Presses of New York, 1985).</ref> Included in LGBTQ+ group ''The Publishing Triangle's'' list of 100 best lesbian and gay novels in the late 1990s.<ref>[https://publishingtriangle.org/best-lesbian-gay-novels/ Best Lesbian and Gay Novels, ''The Publishing Triangle'' (New York)].</ref> | |||
*'''Mad to Be Saved''' - ([[Kevin Esser]], 1985) (see more Esser's books on [[Kevin Esser|his page]])<span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
::An autobiographical novel by Kevin Esser that draws heavily on his experiences. The story reflects the protagonist's journey through adolescent life's challenges, marked by drug use, existential search, and sexuality exploration. | |||
* '''Rico's Vleugels (Rico's Wings)''' ([https://nl-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Rascha_Peper?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp Rascha Peper], 1993) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Nominated for the Dutch AKO Literature Prize in 1994, the novel follows the wealthy couple Eduard and Cecile Rochèl, as Eduard (now in his 60's) is inspired by a burgeoning mentor relationship with fourteen-year-old Rico Gabrieli. A married man with a history of flirting with young males and even a past affair with a 12/13 year-old brought to an end by his wife, as the publisher's description put it, "All the shells in the world pale in comparison to Rico's squinting eyes and narrow hips. Rochèl's all-consuming crush has dramatic consequences..." | |||
* '''You Can Be a King If You Are Brave''' (Peter Thomas Wolfe, 2023) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | * '''You Can Be a King If You Are Brave''' (Peter Thomas Wolfe, 2023) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | ||
** An Australian charity worker falls in love with a young Burmese boy amidst the growing taboo against such relationships, contribute in big part by the former’s colleagues. | ** An Australian charity worker falls in love with a young Burmese boy amidst the growing taboo against such relationships, contribute in big part by the former’s colleagues. | ||
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* '''The Link: A Victorian mystery''' (Robin Maugham, 1969) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | * '''The Link: A Victorian mystery''' (Robin Maugham, 1969) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | ||
** The story, centered around an investigation on a fictionalized version of the notorious Tichborne case, touches on the theme of boylove. | ** The story, centered around an investigation on a fictionalized version of the notorious Tichborne case, touches on the theme of boylove. | ||
* '''My love is like all lovely things''' (C. Caunter & E. E. Bradford, 2023) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | * '''[[My_Love_Is_Like_All_Lovely_Things_(book)|My love is like all lovely things]]''' (C. Caunter & [[Edwin_Emmanuel_Bradford|E. E. Bradford]], 2023) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | ||
** A collection of boylove-themed poems. | ** A collection of boylove-themed poems. | ||
* '''For a Lost Soldier''' (Rudi Van Dantzig, 1996) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | * '''For a Lost Soldier''' (Rudi Van Dantzig, 1996) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | ||
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* '''Starfish''' (Peter Watts, 1999) <span style="color: magenta">('''N/A''')</span></span> | * '''Starfish''' (Peter Watts, 1999) <span style="color: magenta">('''N/A''')</span></span> | ||
** A sci-fi novel where one of the characters is a sympathetic pedophile named Gerry Fischer. At some points, the narration follows his point of view, and it's revealed that he himself was molested as a child. | ** A sci-fi novel where one of the characters is a sympathetic pedophile named Gerry Fischer. At some points, the narration follows his point of view, and it's revealed that he himself was molested as a child. | ||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20071211052634/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Abomination The Abomination]''' (Paul Golding, 2000) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | * '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20071211052634/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Abomination The Abomination]''' (Paul Golding, 2000) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | ||
** 9 year-old James Moore is molested by a teacher, Mr Wolfe. The boy, however, has been welcoming and indeed encouraging the master in his advances and the encounter is gentle and loving. Another master suspects what’s going on and the headmaster and James’ parents are informed, but James protects Mr Wolfe and the relationship continues past the boy’s 13th birthday. | ** 9 year-old James Moore is molested by a teacher, Mr Wolfe. The boy, however, has been welcoming and indeed encouraging the master in his advances and the encounter is gentle and loving. Another master suspects what’s going on and the headmaster and James’ parents are informed, but James protects Mr Wolfe and the relationship continues past the boy’s 13th birthday. | ||
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* '''Acid Row''' (Minette Walters, 2001) <span style="color: magenta">('''N/A''')</span> | * '''Acid Row''' (Minette Walters, 2001) <span style="color: magenta">('''N/A''')</span> | ||
** This is a story about mob psychology. When residents of a sink estate get word that a newcomer is in fact a convicted paedophile, coupled with the fact that a local 10 year old girl is missing, tempers soon start to flare. Unfortunately for all, the pedophile in question had nothing to do with the incident that incited the mob. | ** This is a story about mob psychology. When residents of a sink estate get word that a newcomer is in fact a convicted paedophile, coupled with the fact that a local 10 year old girl is missing, tempers soon start to flare. Unfortunately for all, the pedophile in question had nothing to do with the incident that incited the mob. | ||
* '''Be Near Me''' (Andrew O'Hagan, 2006) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** A priest befriends Mark and Lisa, rebellious local teenagers. Their company stirs memories of a sinful choice he once made. But their friendship also ignites the suspicions and he is accused of molesting a troubled boy. | |||
* '''Bilal's Bread''' (Sulayman X, 2005) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Salim, now 26, has been sexually exploiting his 16-year-old younger brother Bilal since he was 9 years old. Salim treats his abuse of Bilal as a secret cultural ritual. Bilal struggles to understand his intuition that servicing his brother is wrong, while perceiving that there is something he deeply enjoys about a sexual relationship with his domineering, muscular older brother. | |||
* '''Bom-Crioulo : the black man and the cabin boy''' (Adolfo Caminha, 1982) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** A sailor falls in love with a beautiful white boy. | |||
* '''The Boys Across the Street''' (Rick Sandford, 2000) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** The riveting and often moving story of one man's obsession with a group of Yeshiva boys. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20060913000000/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brothers_Bishop The Brothers Bishop]''' (Bart Yates, 2005) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** An attractive and sexually-aware boy Simon has a sexual encounter with an adult during summer school. | |||
* '''Burn''' (Jennifer Natalya Fink, 2003) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** A middle-aged communist widow has an affair with a 13-year-old boy. | |||
* '''The Cardiff Team''' (Guy Davenport, 1996) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Adolescent boys explore their sexuality with each other and with adults. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coming_Storm The Coming Storm]''' (Paul Russell, 1999) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** 25 year-old Tracy Parker has a love affair with Noah, a troubled 15-year-old student at a boys' prep school in upstate New York. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20071103002223/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Counterfeiters The Counterfeiters]''' ([[Andre_Gide|André Gide]], 1925) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Edouard is sexually attracted to his young nephew George | |||
* '''Crowstone (The Chronicles of Qamar)''' ([[Hakim Bey]], aka Peter Lamborn Wilson, 1983) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** A story of sorcery and boy love. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080228014346/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Color_Purple The Color Purple]''' (Alice Walker, 1982) <span style="color: purple">('''WG''')</span> | |||
** An adolescent girl Celie initially feels threatened by Shug who is a mistress of Celie’s abusive father. But then she realizes that she is sexually attracted to Shug. After a few years, Shug ends up helping Celie discover her sexuality as a woman and the two become lovers. | |||
* '''Daimler''' (Pål Johan Karlsen, 2002) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** A middle-aged coach gets intimately involved with a fourteen-year-old boy, the great talent in the local cross-country skiing club. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dissolution_of_Nicholas_Dee The Dissolution of Nicholas Dee]''' (Matthew Stadler, 1993) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Nicholas Dee, a young, history professor. One night, he is made the guardian of a beautiful teenaged delinquent, Oscar Vega. But the boy is a part of a scheme to ensnare Nicholas. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Boy Dream Boy]''' (Jim Grimsley, 1995) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Adolescent Nathan has a sexual relationship with Roy, an older boy who lives next door. | |||
* '''The Dream Life''' (Bo Huston, 1992) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** A 33-year-old tutor Hollis goes off with Jed, a 14-year-old pupil. | |||
* '''The Drummer of the Eleventh North Devonshire Fusiliers''' (Guy Davenport, 1990) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Sexual relationships between teachers and adolescent boys. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Children Dream Children]''' (A. N. Wilson, 1998) <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | |||
** Oliver Gold, a distinguished philosopher, feels he can only be happy with a child. Oliver, makes all the ladies around him fall in love with him, including a little girl named Bobs. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080619052332/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekaterina_(novel) Ekaterina]''' (Donald Harington, 1993) <span style="color: blue">('''WB''')</span> | |||
** 27-year-old Ekaterina has a sexual relationship with three 12-year-old boys - Kenny, Jason and then Travis Coe. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace_%28novel%29 Embrace]''' (Mark Behr, 2001) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Karl De Man, a 13-year-old pupil at an exclusive boys' school in 1970s South Africa falls in love with Dominic, a boy of his own age, whose parents know he is gay, and has a sexual relationship with his choirmaster, Jacques Cilliers. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enchanted_Boy Enchanted Boy]''' (Richie McMullen, 1989) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** An autobiographical novel. At the age of 8, Richie is persuaded by a man to have sexual contact. It is the first time he realizes the power a knowing boy can have over a desperate pedophile. And then, up to his 15, he goes through the adversities of boy’s prostitution, trying to escape abuse at his home. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080323093324/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Alice The End of Alice]''' (A. M. Homes, 1996) <span style="color: blue">('''WB''')</span> | |||
** A 19-year-old girl has a sexual relationship with a 12-year-old boy called Matthew and describes what she is doing in correspondence with a jailed child sexual abuser. | |||
* '''The Elenium''' Trilogy (David Eddings, 1989) <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | |||
** A 12-year-old princess is used to pervert a young priest. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120820110851/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_of_Doctor_Onslow The Fall of Doctor Onslow]''' (Frances Vernon, 1994) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** An English public school Headmaster is sexually attracted to many of the pupils and has affairs with several of them. | |||
* '''Fenny Skaller''' from Books of the Nameless Love (John Henry Mackay, 1988) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Fenny Skaller, a man in his forties, looks back on his life. Using photos, he relives disappointments and happy moments, remembering how he gradually realized that he loved boys between the ages of 14 and 17. | |||
* '''Corydon''' ([[Andre_Gide|André Gide]], 1924) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** The book consists of four socratic dialogues on homosexuality, with the first dialogue consisting of the author meeting his childhood friend, a man named Corydon, who tells his story. He was engaged and loved his future bride with an intense but chaste love, without passion. To disturb him further is the story of his girlfriend's brother, little more than a teenager, he too is troubled by the same unspeakable desires, he decides to confide in him, Corydon speaks to him very severely about the dangers and the social condemnation of those tendencies. After a few days the boy commits suicide by leaving a moving letter to Corydon in which he declares his love to him. | |||
* '''Finistère''' (Fritz Peters, 1951) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Michel falls in love with 15-year-old Matthew, one of his students. | |||
* '''Firefly''' (Piers Anthony, 1992) <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | |||
** 5-year-old Nymph seduces much older Maddock, who is on trial for molesting her. | |||
* '''Golden States''' (Michael Cunningham, 1984) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** 12-year-old David has sexual encounters with a couple of men. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20060913000000/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Baby Happy Baby]''' (Stephen Elliott, 2004) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Theo is put into care aged 13 and brutally treated and sexually abused by Mr. Gracie, his caseworker, who protects him from other physical abuse. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20071217131941/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearts_In_Atlantis Hearts in Atlantis]''' (Stephen King, 1999) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** The first novel in the book tells a story of 12-year-old Bobby with a neglecting mother. He became close to older man who treated him well. They have no sexual relationship as Bobby’s mother think, but after being offered $2 for oral sex by a stranger, Bobby has a strange flashback as if being kissed by Ted. | |||
* '''The Heavenly Cupid''' (1934), '''Water Cherubs''' (1936) [https://acearchive.org/ralph-chubb and other texts] by Ralph Nicholas Chubb <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** The author seeks to articulate his pederastic desires by creating a personal mythology in his books. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080220210158/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogg_(novel) Hogg]''' (Samuel R. Delany, 1969) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** The novel is told from the perspective of an eleven-year-old boy who joins up with "Hogg", a trucker and rapist-for-hire. The boy satisfies the extreme sexual demands of everyone around him. He describes how he enjoys all the perverted sexual acts and participates willingly in all Hogg's excesses. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20060913000000/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Honorable_Profession An Honorable Profession]''' (John L'Heureux, 1991) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** A High School boy develops a crush on Miles Bannon, a popular English teacher. Miles fails to discourage it and this triggers accusations of child molestation when the boy commits suicide. | |||
* '''The Hustler''' (John Henry Mackay, 2002) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Homeless boys try to survive on the streets in Berlin in the 1920's. Jobs are hard to find, especially for fourteen year olds. The easiest path for these boys is to fall into the hustler life style, satisfying the sexual desires of older men. | |||
* '''Happy Endings''' (David Cook, 1989) <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | |||
** A series of vignettes about the lives of Morris, a 12 year old boy sent to an assessment centre after "interfering with" a 5 year old girl, and Stephen, a 33 year old schoolteacher who is attracted to teenage girls. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Immoralist The Immoralist]''', (published in France as L'immoraliste) ([[Andre_Gide|André Gide]], 1902) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Michel seeks out young Arab boys. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Tall_Cotton In Tall Cotton]''' (Charles Hulse, 1987) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** A boy's sexual adventures from age 7 to 14 with other children and adult men. | |||
* '''Innocents'''(Cathy Coote, 2002) <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | |||
** The unnamed teenage narrator embarks on a psychosexual campaign to emotionally and sexually dominate a male schoolteacher twice her age. | |||
* '''Josey Rose: a novel''' (Jane Wood, 1998) <span style="color: blue">('''WB''')</span> | |||
** A minister tries to molest 11-year-old Josey Rose who has a sexual relationship with Lily, the mysterious, beautiful young woman. | |||
* '''Kit''' (Alan Edward, 1982) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** A man’s sexual relationship with a 12-year-old boy in an English psychiatric institute. | |||
* '''Kite Music''' (Gary Shellhart, 1988) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Peter, an American exchange teacher, goes to Thailand and falls in love with Wichai, a 12-year-old boy. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb_%28film%29 Lamb]''' (Bernard Mac Laverty, 1986) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Brother Sebastian (née Michael Lamb) has formed an attachment to a 12-year-old boy called Owen Kane then abducts him from a reformatory hoping to be the boy's saviour. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lantern_Bearers_%28Frame_novel%29 The Lantern Bearers]''' (Ronald Frame, 2001) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** 14-year-old treble Neil Pritchard develops mutual affection with composer Euan Bone. Although Neil experiences homosexual urges toward Bone, they do not cross the line. When Neil became older Many years later, Neil discovers than Bone had sexual contact with another young boy. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_I_Lead_%28novel%29 The Life I Lead]''' (Keith Banner, 1999) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** The novel is written from Dave’s point of view who is a pedophile and has become attracted to a number of young boys over the years and molested them. Then he becomes obsessed with 8-year-old Nathan. | |||
* '''Livre d'Or des Textes Pédophiles: Des origines à nos jours''' (P. de Saintogne, 1991) <span style="color: orange">('''V''')</span> | |||
** An anthology of French literature with pedophile themes. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Dismiss_Us Lord Dismiss Us]''' (Michael Campbell, 1967) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Carleton, a bright sixth former loves Allen, a boy two years his junior. Ashley, one of the teachers, loves Carleton, and there is also a new headmaster who wants to root out moral corruption. | |||
* '''Lovesong''' (Elizabeth Jolley, 1997) <span style="color: magenta">('''N/A''')</span> | |||
** Dalton Foster is returned to his former community after his sentence and "a cure" in various institutions for half his life. Dalton is alone, depressed, and compulsively drawn to children. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Without_a_Face The Man Without a Face]''' by Isabelle Holland, 1972 <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Justin McLeod teaches the troubled 12-year-old Chuck. McLeod is affectionate to him, and Chuck seems to be attracted to McLeod more than to a father figure. But then it led to accusations of sexual abuse. | |||
* '''Middle Ground''' by Ursula Zilinsky, 1970 <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** 14-year-old Tyl, a boy in a concentration camp, falls in love with his commander, Johannes, a senior Nazi officer, and Johannes is drawn to Tyl. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moralist The Moralist]''' by Rod Downey, 2004 <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Red Rover mentors 12-year-old Jonathan and falls in love with him. Eventually, the deep friendship between man and boy develops into a sexual relationship. They both have to defend their relationship in the face of public accusations. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_Star_%28novel%29 Morning Star]''', Volume I of the novel sequences First Born of Egypt, by Simon Raven, 1984 <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Two Homosexual friends, Ptolemaeos Tunne and Jeremy Fielding, become infatuated with Marius, a 12-year-old boy, who has a nursery crush on Jeremy and persuades him to share his bed, though nothing sexual happens. | |||
* '''A Natural Lizard Activity''' by B.J. Freedman, 1994 <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** A 13-year-old boy's love affair with a 31-year-old man. | |||
* '''Never the Same Again''' by Gerald Tesch, 1956 <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** 13-year-old Johnny Parish has a sexual relationship with a man. | |||
* '''Playing Soldiers in the Dark''' by Stephen Dueweke, 1992 <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** An 14-year-old boy is loved by his Physics teacher. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Arthur_Savile%27s_Crime_and_Other_Stories#The_Portrait_of_Mr._W._H. The Portrait of Mr. W.H.]''' by Oscar Wilde, 1891 <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Puts forward the theory that some of Shakespeare's sonnets were dedicated to a beautiful boy actor called Willie Hughes | |||
* '''The Priest: A Gothic Romance''' by Thomas M. Disch, 1995 <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** A priest with a history of seducing altar boys is blackmailed into getting a satanic tattoo | |||
* '''The Priest and the Acolyte''' by John Francis Bloxam, from The Chameleon, 1894 <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** A short story of a tragic love between a priest and a 14-year-old acolyte. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pupil The Pupil]''' by Henry James, 1891 <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Pemberton loves his 11-year-old pupil Morgan Moreen. | |||
* '''The Photographer's Sweethearts''' by Diana Hartog, 1997 <span style="color: magenta">('''N/A''')</span> | |||
** A novel presents a human view of a pedophile. Told from the point of view of Louie Olsen, who delight the beauty of children, seeks out and befriends them, and encourages them to take part in his liberated ideas. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer_%28novel%29 Queer]''' by William S. Burroughs, 1987 <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Lee lusts after a group of 12-14 year old Mexican boys. | |||
* '''Reasons of the Heart''' by Bron Nicholls, 1993 <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Jonathan, an 11-year-old paper boy, moves with 25-year-old Fred and they live together in a sexual relationship for 5 years. | |||
* '''Return to Innocence''' by Gary M. Frazier, 2011 <span style="color: magenta">('''N/A''')</span> | |||
** A 13-year old boy is taken into care after sexual abuse and then accuses his psychologist of abuse. Inside look at the processes and agendas involved in the prosecution of child sex abuse case. | |||
* '''Rolling the R's''' by R. Zamora Linmark, 2016 <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** 10-year-old Edgar, an openly gay boy, has a sexual relationship with the school caretaker. | |||
* '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gambril_Nicholson#The_Romance_of_a_Choir-Boy The Romance of a Choir Boy]''' by John Gambril Nicholson, 1916 (reprinted in 2013) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** A young Anglican curate develops a chaste but intensely romantic affection for twelve-year-old local boy with a beautiful singing voice. | |||
* '''A Room in the Woods''' by Patrick Drevet, 1991 <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** A sexual relationship between a young man and a 12/13-year-old boy. | |||
* '''Roger Fishbite''' by Emily Prager, 1999 <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | |||
** Roger develops sexual relationship with Lucky, his eleven year-old step-daughter. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandel Sandel]''' by Angus Stewart, 1968 <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** David Rogers, a 19-year-old student, falls in love with 13-year-old Antony Sandel and they have a sexual relationship. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sex_Offender:_A_Novel The Sex Offender]''' by Matthew Stadler, 1994 <span style="color: magenta">('''N/A''')</span> | |||
** A man who has sexually abused a 12-year-old boy is subjected to perverse, surreal forms of aversion therapy. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_Boy Shakespeare's Boy]''' by Casimir Dukahz, 1991 <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** 13-year-old Ruy is a boy actor playing female roles like Juliet and is portrayed as a willing participant in his sexual adventures. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorcerer%27s_Apprentice_%28novel%29 The Sorcerer's Apprentice]''' by François Augiéras, 1964 <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** An adolescent boy is sent to live with a 35-year-old priest, who becomes his mentor. He abuses him physically and sexually, but the boy willingly accepts his 'punishment.' Also, the adolescent falls in love with another boy, and the priest guides him how to love. | |||
* '''Spur Piece''' from Derricks, 1951, a collection of short stories by James Barr (pseudonym of James Fugaté) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** A relationship, set in 1946, between Tom, recently discharged from the US Navy and 13-year-old Chris who works on the family farm. Tom suppresses his sexual feelings for four years. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinner_%28novel%29 Sinner]''' from The Wayfarer Redemption trilogy by Sara Douglass, 1997 <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | |||
** Zenith, a powerful magician, is seduced by StarDrifter, his 11-year-old granddaughter. | |||
* '''A Table of Green Fields: Ten Stories''' by Guy Davenport, 1993 <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** 12-year-old boys explore their sexuality with each other and with adults. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terre_Haute_%28novel%29 Terre Haute]''' by Will Aitken, 1989 <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** 14 year-old Jared loves Julian, the new curator of the local museum, and allows to sex happen. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_of_our_Darkness Time of our Darkness]''' by Stephen Gray, 1989 <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** The story of a homosexual teacher in 1980s Apartheid South Africa and his relationships with his long-term partner and a fourteen year old black boy. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touched Touched]''' by Scott Campbell, 1996 <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Jerry Houseman is in love with 12-year-old Robbie and doesn't understand why the rest of the world can't accept that the boy loves him back. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tricky_Part_:_One_Boy%27s_Fall_from_Trespass_into_Grace The Tricky Part : One Boy's Fall from Trespass into Grace]''', an autobiographical novel, by Martin Moran, 2005 <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Between the age of 12 and 15, Martin Moran had a sexual relationship with Bob Doyle, a Vietnam Veteran. Moran is ambivalent about that. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Box Treasure Box]''' by Orson Scott Card, 1996 <span style="color: purple">('''WG''')</span> | |||
** Rowena, an eleven-year-old witch, assumes the appearance of an adult woman through magic. Not knowing her true nature, Quentin, a thirty-five-year-old virgin, falls in love with her, has intercourse with her, and marries her. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Until_I_Find_You Until I Find You]''' by John Irving, 2006 <span style="color: blue">('''WB''')</span> | |||
** Five-year-old Jack is educated at girl’s school. He has relationships with older women, who initiate him into erotic life. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_We_Do_Is_Secret What We Do Is Secret]''' by Thorn Kief Hillsbery,2005 <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Rockets was ten years old when he first met young man Darby Crash, lead singer of LA punk band The Germs. He had sexual relationships with Darby and his friend Blitzer | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Jonathan_Died When Jonathan Died]''' by [[Tony Duvert]], 1978 <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Jonathan is a 27-year-old artist who befriends a single mother and her six-year-old son, Serge. Serge is aged 8, when Jonathan starts a romantic and sexual relationship with him. After a break, when Serge is 10, relationship continues, and the boy begins making sexual demands of his own. | |||
* '''Wake of the Raven''' by Graham Worthington, 2007 <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | |||
** An ex-soldier is isolated with a precocious 11-year-old girl. The story tells of his struggle to resist sexual entanglement. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Oleander White Oleander]''' by Janet Fitch, 1999 <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | |||
** 14 year-old female character is implied to have had sexual relations with her male foster carer. | |||
* '''The Reader''' (Bernhard Schlink, 1995) <span style="color: blue">('''WB''')</span> | |||
** The book, a parable on how the post-war generation of Germany should deal with Nazi war crimes, tells the story of 15-year-old Michael Berg, who gets helped on his way home by 36-year-old illiterate tram conductor Hanna Schmitz. Afterwards, they begin an emotionally distant but physically close affair that goes on for months. Years later, he holds Hanna's secret and must decide whether or not to reveal it. | |||
* '''Tampa''' (Alissa Nutting, 2012) <span style="color: blue">('''WB''')</span> | |||
** The novel recounts middle school teacher (and hebephile) Celeste Price, her obsession with pubescent boys, as well as her seduction of one of her students, 14-year-old Jack Patrick. | |||
* '''Psychohistorical crisis''' (Donald Kingsbury, 2001) <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | |||
** In this award-winning sci-fi novel, many of the adult male characters like Rigone and the protagonist himself, Eron Osa, have intimate relationships with teen girls. | |||
* '''[https://www.greek-love.com/media/PDFs/Hamilton.Wallace.Kevin.pdf Kevin]''' (Wallace Hamilton, 1980) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** A gay novel about the love between a teenage boy and a mature man. | |||
* '''The Autobiography of a Flea''' (Stanislas de Rhodes, 1887) <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | |||
** The story is narrated by a flea who tells the tale of a beautiful young 14-year-old girl named Bella, who engages in sexual acts first with her young lover Charlie, and then the local priest Father Ambrose, two of his colleagues in holy orders, and her own uncle. Bella is then employed to procure her best friend, Julia, for the sexual enjoyment of both the priests and of her own father. | |||
* '''The Romance of Lust''' (Anonymous, 1873–1876) <span style="color: orange">('''V''')</span></span> | |||
** The novel, comprised of four volumes, catalogs protagonist Charlie Roberts' sexual experiences, be it his affairs with his governesses I his teens, as well as of other characters, such as one of the Count's mistresses having sex with a 12-year-old cabin boy among other men in a six-weeks sea fare, and the incestuous relationship between Charlie's wife and her father when she was 9. | |||
* '''Lolito''' (Ben Brooks, 2013) <span style="color: blue">('''WB''')</span> | |||
** 15-year-old schoolboy Etgar, after his break up with Alice, interacts online with 42-year-old housewife and headteacher Macy under the fake identity of a mortgage broker in his 20s. The plot builds up its climax to their meet up and eventual affair, and there's little commentary on the age gap in the novel. | |||
* '''The Panthology Reader''' vol.1-4 and '''[https://1lib.sk/book/19126864/ec808b/the-acolyte-reader.html The Acolyte Reader]''' Vol. 1-12 ([[Kevin Esser]] et al.,1981-1996) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** A series of total sixteen anthologies of short stories about boy-love. The stories are by various authors, but all the volumes were edited by the American writer [[Frank Torey]] (1928-96). "The stories included in this and all the later volumes were very varied in quality, but even the poorer ones are lent a special importance by their being the first free expression in print of feelings and ideas that had been silenced for centuries and were soon to be silenced again." <ref>Synopsis of ''The Panthology Reader'' and ''The Acolyte Reader'' series on [https://www.greek-love.com/index.php/fiction/reviews-of-anthologies-of-greek-love-stories/panthology-one Greek-love.com]</ref> | |||
== Non-fiction literature == | |||
* '''The Death of Narcissus''' by Morris Fraser, 1976 <span style="color: magenta">('''N/A''')</span> | |||
** The author examines pedophilia through the works of Henry James, Forrest Reid, J.M. Barrie, and many others, with an in depth analyses of the underlying pedophilic nature or sexual symbolism of Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, The Turn of the Screw and more. | |||
* '''Autobiography of an Englishman by "Y"''', 1975 <span style="color: magenta">('''N/A''')</span> | |||
** It chronicles the life of a homosexual man who was born in the 1920s. A sexually repressive environment at home and at public school negatively impacted his sexuality and psychological well-being | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britten%27s_Children Britten's Children]''' by John Bridcut, 2006 <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** The composer Benjamin Britten's obsessional, yet innocent, relationships with young boys. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_From_The_Shadows Escape From The Shadows]''' by Robin Maugham, 1972 <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Maugham describes the night-time activities of pre-war pedophile Prep school masters | |||
* '''The Full Monty: [https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Montgomery%2C_1st_Viscount_Montgomery_of_Alamein Montgomery of Alamein]''', 1887-1942 Vol 1 by Nigel Hamilton <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Field Marshal Montgomery's platonic love for young men and boys including 12-year-old Lucien Trueb, with whom he corresponded for many years. | |||
* '''[https://www.attalus.org/poetry/anth12.html Book Twelve]''' of the Greek Anthology translated by W.R.Paton, 1916 <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Contains explicit poetry and epigrams on boy love. | |||
* '''If it die''' by [[Andre_Gide|André Gide]], 2001 (published in France in 1902 as ''Si le grain ne meurt'') <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Gide's unapologetic account of his awakening homosexual desire. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080323103607/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moab_Is_My_Washpot Moab is My Washpot]''' by Stephen Fry, 1997 <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** 14-year-old Fry becomes besotted with 13-year-old boy and is also seduced by a prefect Oliver Derwent. | |||
* '''The Real Tadzio: [[Thomas Mann]]'s Death in Venice and the Boy Who Inspired It''' by Gilbert Adair, 2003 <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** The story of Mann's infatuation with a beautiful 11-year-old Polish boy. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%2C_The_Flesh_and_Myself The World, The Flesh and Myself]''' by [[Michael Davidson]], 1962 <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Davidson describes how he sought out young boys and adolescents for sex in 1930s London. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Some_Boys Some Boys]''' by Michael Davidson, 1970 <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Davidson's follow up to The World, The Flesh and Myself | |||
* '''L'enfant Au Masculin''' by [[Tony Duvert]], 1980 <span style="color: magenta">('''N/A''')</span> | |||
** Author calls to unity of homosexuals and pedophiles and to sexual rights of children. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balthus Balthus]''' by Nicholas Fox Weber, 1999 <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | |||
** Describes Balthus' erotic paintings of very young girls in works such as such as The Guitar Lesson. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casanova Casanova]'s Women: The Great Seducer and the Women He Loved''' by Judith Summers, 2006 <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | |||
** Casanova tries to seduce his own 10-year-old daughter | |||
* '''Remembering Satan''' by Lawrence Wright, 1995 <span style="color: magenta">('''N/A''')</span> | |||
** The true story of Paul Ingram and the controversy over sex abuse convictions based on recovered memories. | |||
* Books on Michael Jackson's relationships with boys include: <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** '''All That Glitters: The Crime and the Cover-up''' by Raymond Chandler, 2004 | |||
** '''Be Careful Who You Love: Inside the Michael Jackson Case''' by Diane Dimond, 2009 | |||
** '''Michael Jackson: The Man behind the Mask''' by Bob Jones and Stacy Brown, 2010 | |||
** '''Michael Jackson Was My Lover: The Secret Diary of Jordie Chandler''' by Victor M. Gutierrez, 1998 | |||
** '''Redemption: The Truth Behind the Michael Jackson Child Molestation Allegations''' by Geraldine Hughes, 2004 | |||
** [https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=74F8757A46E48769C90833041B518D05 '''Michael Jackson’s Dangerous Liaisons'''] by [[Thomas O'Carroll]], 2010 | |||
*** a comprehensive review of the late entertainer’s controversially intimate relationships with preadolescent and adolescent boys | |||
* '''[[Tiger, Tiger: A Memoir]]''' (Margaux Artemia Fragoso, 2011) <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | |||
** The author recollects her tumultuous sexual relationship with an elderly man, which began when she was 7. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teardrops_on_My_Drum Teardrops on My Drum]''', an autobiographical novel, by Jack Robinson, 1998 <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** A Memoir of Robinson’s sexually precocious boyhood. He searches the city for adventure, love and sex, and joins the army as a fourteen-year-old boy soldier. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122153853/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_with_Scissors_%28memoir%29 Running with Scissors]''' by Augusten Burroughs, 2002 <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** 12-year-old Burroughs is sent to live with his mother's psychiatrist Dr. Finch when his parents separate. Burroughs has an extended sexual relationship, aged 13 to 15, with Neil Bookman, the 33-year-old adopted son of the psychiatrist. | |||
* '''[https://www.boywiki.org/en/A_Dangerous_Love_(book) A Dangerous Love]''' by Stephen Nicholson and edited by Edmund Marlowe (author of Alexander's Choice), 2023 <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** It is a memoir which gives an account of his life as a boylover. | |||
* '''The Trucker and The Teens''': Volume 1 by Colantuono, Louis A., 1984. [https://greek-love.com/media/PDFs/Colantuono.Trucker.pdf PDF]. [https://greek-love.com/index.php/biographies/reviews-authors-a-b/colantuono-louis-a-the-trucker-and-the-teens Review]. <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Five years of the hectic life on the road of a Californian, written while in prison for his considerable sexual activity with boys. | |||
* '''Teardrops on My Drum''' by Jack Robinson, 1986. [https://greek-love.com/media/PDFs/Robinson.Jack.'Teardrops.on.My.Drum'.pdf PDF]. [https://greek-love.com/index.php/biographies/reviews-authors-p-z/jack-robinson-teardrops-on-my-drum-pederasty Review]. <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** The eye-opening autobiography down to the age of fourteen of a poor but high-spirited boy sexually involved with men and other boys from the age of eleven. Set mostly in Liverpool in the early 1930s. | |||
* '''Jack and Jamie Go to War''' by Jack Robinson, 1988. [https://greek-love.com/media/PDFs/Robinson.Jamie.pdf PDF]. <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** A continuation of Robinson's story as a soldier and lover from 1937 until the end of the 2nd World War, aged 15 to 24, during which time he made the classical Greek transition from beloved to lover of adolescent boys. Not nearly as remarkable a story as its predecessor. | |||
* '''The North China Lover''' (Marguerite Duras, 1991) <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | |||
** The events described in her previous novel, The Lover, is retold in third person style, allowing the author to recount her first love in a more autobiographical and detached way. | |||
* '''My Secret Life''' (Walter, 1888) <span style="color: orange">('''V''')</span> | |||
** This 11-volumes-long alleged memoir of a Victorian gentlemen called “Walter” covers his sexual development in his life, including his sex-play with his maid-servants during his childhood, and his activities in London’s houses of prostitution that involved underage female prostitutes. | |||
* '''Flannelled Fool''', (T. C. Worsley, 1967) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** An autobiographical novel where author describes his fascination with a series of beautiful boys whom he taught as a young master. | |||
* '''Kim, My Beloved''' (Jens Eisenhardt, 1981) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** This is the autobiographical story of a schoolteacher's passionate love for his boy pupil in provincial Denmark, consummated in 1962 when they were respectively thirty and fifteen. | |||
* '''35 Cents''' (Matty Lee, 2006) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** 35 Cents is an autobiographical story of a straight, young, white boy growing up and coming of age as he hustles his way both through the gay community and the juvenile-detention system of South Florida in the late 1980s. It is also the amount he made when he turned his first trick at 13. | |||
* [https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=7A1E0ACB5C49BF3C627EB615A95DD16A '''The Boston sex scandal'''] ([[wikipedia:John Mitzel|John Mitzel]], 1980) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** 20 men in the Boston area were arrested and charged with sex with boys. It is detailed and documents story of the official attack on gay and MAP rights unleashed in Boston. Also this is "the story of a resistance, begun by a few radical homosexuals, which built on the gay community so that, for the first time, the gay movement embraced gay pedophiles and their cause and fought back." | |||
== Scientific popular literature == | |||
* '''[[Erotic Innocence|Child-Loving]]''' by [[James Kincaid|James R. Kincaid]], 1992 <span style="color: magenta">('''N/A''')</span> | |||
** This work traces the growth of the Victorian and modern conceptions of the body, the child, sexuality, and the stories we tell about them. | |||
* '''[[Erotic Innocence]]: The culture of child molesting''' by [[James Kincaid|James R. Kincaid]], 1998 <span style="color: magenta">('''N/A''')</span> | |||
** Author explores contemporary America’s preoccupation with stories about the sexual abuse of children. | |||
*'''Loving Boys''' , [https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=A6DBB21D0BAB95293179BDEE2E929E52 '''vol.1'''] (1986) and [https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=40C57B7A2D794BB601C4A433AD9BA61C '''vol. 2'''](1990) by [[Edward Brongersma]] <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Loving Boys is the culmination of a lifetime’s work by Edward Brongersma about man-boy love. It explores the sexuality of boys, and how boys perceive the friendships and sex they share with their older friends, positive and negative aspects of man/boy relations, and the effects of sexual repression and sexual liberation. | |||
* [https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=5DBDFA0F8D13D9DCD84B8DE544CD0AE4 '''Male Intergenerational Intimacy: Historical, Socio-Psychological, and Legal Perspectives'''] by [[Theo Sandfort]], 1991 <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Historical, legal, sociological, psychological, and cross-disciplinary research on male intergenerational intimacy. | |||
*'''[[The Trauma Myth]]''' by Susan Clancy, 2010 <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | |||
** It documents interviews of adults who identified as survivors of [[Child Sexual Abuse|CSA]]. Clancy argues that the popular perception of CSA as a universally damaging experience has been overblown by media and popular culture. She suggests that trauma-like experiences from insignificant or harmless sexual encounters are usually created through a reconceptualization process later in life. | |||
*'''[[Harmful to Minors]]''' by [[Judith Levine]], 2002 <span style="color: magenta">('''N/A''')</span> | |||
** This book proposes that laws, programs and terminology aimed at "protecting children" from sex cause more damage than they prevent. The book cites a wide array of research in medical, psychological, historical, and criminological fields, along with many interviews to support its conclusions. | |||
*'''[[Censoring Sex Research]]''' by editors [[Thomas Hubbard|Thomas K. Hubbard]] and Beert Verstraete, 2013 <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** This book presents a substantially extended version of [[Bruce Rind|Rind]]’s [[Rind et al|article]] where he concludes the absence of harm in consensual sexual relations between male adults and adolescents, and it’s cultural and evolutionary origins, plus 12 scholarly responses to his work that argue for or against Rind’s conclusions. | |||
* '''[https://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/art_ess_c.htm Public sex: The Culture of Radical Sex]'''by [[Patrick Califia|Patrick Califia]], 1994 (and 2nd edition, 2000) <span style="color: magenta">('''N/A''')</span> | |||
** The bulk of Califia's work on sexual repression and censorship, includes articles on sex age of consent, children's rights, sex panic. | |||
* '''[https://www.ipce.info/host/radicase/index.htm Paedophilia - The Radical Case]''' by [[Thomas O'Carroll|Tom O'Carroll]], 1980 <span style="color: magenta">('''N/A''')</span> | |||
** Notable book on ethics of adult-child sex, includes chapters on child's sexual needs, consent, power, equality and other topics. | |||
== Comics == | == Comics == | ||
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* '''Titeuf''' (Zep, 1992-present) <span style="color: blue">('''WB''')</span> | * '''Titeuf''' (Zep, 1992-present) <span style="color: blue">('''WB''')</span> | ||
** The stories center around how children perceive the adult world, with some of the jokes involving boys like the titular character trying to get laid with women like the schools nurse. | ** The stories center around how children perceive the adult world, with some of the jokes involving boys like the titular character trying to get laid with women like the schools nurse. | ||
* '''All Princesses Die Before Dawn''' (Zuttion Quentin, 2022) <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | |||
** A sub-plot involves the protagonist's teenage sister, Cam, having a secret relationship with a much older man from college, although they break up by the end of the comic. | |||
== TV shows (live action) == | == TV shows (live action) == | ||
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* '''Shameless''' (Paul Abbott, 2011-2021) <span style="color: orange">('''V''')</span> | * '''Shameless''' (Paul Abbott, 2011-2021) <span style="color: orange">('''V''')</span> | ||
** The first season of the American adaptation of British TV show Shameless features a consensual relationship between a middle-aged man and a 15-year-old boy. It also shows one of the protagonists, a middle-aged man, being attracted to a 15-year-old girl, but not acting on this attraction despite her advances towards him. She eventually rapes him while he is under the influence of drugs and thus unable to fight back, and other characters, especially one of his sons, then assume that he raped her. In the second season, he is investigated by police, but the investigation is dropped when she reveals that she was the one who took advantage of him, not the other way around. | ** The first season of the American adaptation of British TV show Shameless features a consensual relationship between a middle-aged man and a 15-year-old boy. It also shows one of the protagonists, a middle-aged man, being attracted to a 15-year-old girl, but not acting on this attraction despite her advances towards him. She eventually rapes him while he is under the influence of drugs and thus unable to fight back, and other characters, especially one of his sons, then assume that he raped her. In the second season, he is investigated by police, but the investigation is dropped when she reveals that she was the one who took advantage of him, not the other way around. | ||
* '''A Teacher''' (Hannah Fidell, 2020) <span style="color: blue">('''WB''')</span> | |||
** Set in the span of 10 years, this crime series follows an English high school teacher woman in her early 30s and her 17-year-old student boy as they begin a hidden illicit relationship. | |||
== Anime and manga == | == Anime and manga == | ||
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** A prodigy shogi player takes a 9-year-old girl with as his disciple and the two brace themselves together in the world of shogi, making friends and rivals. The young girl is very possessive of her master, displaying yandere traits. | ** A prodigy shogi player takes a 9-year-old girl with as his disciple and the two brace themselves together in the world of shogi, making friends and rivals. The young girl is very possessive of her master, displaying yandere traits. | ||
* '''Niehime to Kemono no Ō''' <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | * '''Niehime to Kemono no Ō''' <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | ||
** The king of beasts and demons, intrigued by one of his sacrificial humans, young girl with nothing left to live for, decides to take her as his consort and make her queen of his kingdom. | ** The king of beasts and demons, intrigued by one of his sacrificial humans, a young girl with nothing left to live for, decides to take her as his consort and make her queen of his kingdom. | ||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20071219025127/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokusatsu_Tenshi_Dokuro-chan Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan]''', literally translated as '''Club-To-Death Angel''' <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | * '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20071219025127/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokusatsu_Tenshi_Dokuro-chan Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan]''', literally translated as '''Club-To-Death Angel''' <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | ||
** It's a fiction series written by Masaki Okayu from which an anime version was created. A young boy stops girls aged 12 from maturing and is accused of creating a pedophile's heaven. | ** It's a fiction series written by Masaki Okayu from which an anime version was created. A young boy stops girls aged 12 from maturing and is accused of creating a pedophile's heaven. | ||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20071219025127/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Ball_%28anime%29 Dragon Ball]''' <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | * '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20071219025127/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Ball_%28anime%29 Dragon Ball]''' <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | ||
** It is the first part of the anime adaptation of the Dragon Ball manga written by Akira Toriyama. Blue displays sexual interest towards a young boy. | ** It is the first part of the anime adaptation of the Dragon Ball manga written by Akira Toriyama. Blue displays sexual interest towards a young boy. | ||
* '''Toshiba elite onna kishi ga boku no mae de dake kawaii''' <span style="color: blue">('''WB''')</span> | |||
** 16-year-old Haru, recruit of the "Black Hawk" 4th Cavalry Unit of the knights' regiment, teases his virgin captain Karen in a bid to steal her heart. | |||
* '''Kiss in the Dark''' <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Mira Munakata is a first-year high school student involved in a romantic and sexual relationship with his adoptive father, a famous actor named Kyōsuke Munakata. | |||
* '''Super Lovers''' <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** This shounen-ai series follows the relationship between 16-year-old adopted family member Haru Kaidō and his 8-year-old step-brother, Ren Kaidō, which gradually becomes more romantic as the series progresses. | |||
* '''Koi Kaze''' <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | |||
** Twenty-eight-year-old Koshiro Saeki, who lives with his divorced father Zenzo, is dumped by his girlfriend. While on a train the morning after, he sees 15-year-old high school student Nanoka Kohinata. As they get to Zenzo's house, they're shocked to discover that they're siblings. Even when realising the truth, their feelings for each other do not go away, no matter what they do. At the end, they decide to continue their relationship. | |||
* '''But I'm Your Teacher''' <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** The manga work by Yoshino Somei. It's a short story where a convicted pedophile photographer picks up a young foreign boy in order to use him as the subject of his work. Throughout the story, the boy is raped by a man brought in by the photographer, and later instigates consensual sex with the photographer himself. | |||
* '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20071011213924/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boku_no_Pico Boku no Pico]''' <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** Young man seduces an adolescent boy mistaking him for a young girl, but continues the relationship after realizing his true gender. | |||
* '''Astarotte no Omocha! (Anime) and Lotte no Omocha (manga)''' <span style="color: orange">('''V''')</span> | |||
** In the realm of Álfheimr, 10-year-old succubus princess Astarotte ‘Lotte’ Ygvar takes in 23-year-old Naoya Tohara as part of Judit’s plan to increase the princess’s harem of men. 10 years prior to the series’s start, Lotte’s mother conceived a child with the then 13-year-old Naoya when she was 19 years old. | |||
* '''Shoujo Ramune''' <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | |||
** Kiyoshi Tachikawa runs a candy store in a small town. His shop is regularly visited by three girls in particular: Chie Sayama, Tenka Adachi, and Komako Semenovich. Due to his friendly and easygoing demeanor, the not-so-innocent girls quickly take to Kiyoshi, seeking his attention and help with their problems. They soon develop romantic feelings toward him and gladly leave their bodies in his care, passing time in his house by indulging in sexual pleasures. | |||
* '''Ichinen Buri no The Animation''' <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | |||
** A college student goes to the countryside for the summer break. Greeting him on his arrival is his little cousin, Anna, who refers to him as "Kou-chan." They soon start hanging out, reminiscing their childhood together. Eventually, the two visit an inconspicuous hut—the place where Kou-chan seduced Anna during his previous visit. It is here that Anna is determined to make the most of her cousin's stay and show him how much she's matured over the last year. As memories of their last encounter resurface, she invites him to take the plunge into a whirlpool of sexual pleasure and continue where they started. | |||
== Documentaries == | == Documentaries == | ||
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* '''The Paedophile Next Door''' (Rudolph Herzog, 2014) <span style="color: orange">('''V''')</span> | * '''The Paedophile Next Door''' (Rudolph Herzog, 2014) <span style="color: orange">('''V''')</span> | ||
** Similar to [[I, Pedophile]], featuring experts from the NSPCC, Metropolitan Police and preventionist scholar, Sarah Goode among others. | ** Similar to [[I, Pedophile]], featuring experts from the NSPCC, Metropolitan Police and preventionist scholar, Sarah Goode among others. | ||
* '''Chicken Hawk: Men Who Love Boys''' (Adi Sideman, 1994) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | |||
** The documentary recounts the history of NAMBLA, showcasing the organisation's photos and bulletins, as well as profiling its members as they discuss relationships between adult men and boys below the age of consent. Allen Ginsberg is also featured, reciting a poem dedicated to youth. | |||
== Musicals and theatre == | == Musicals and theatre == | ||
* '''[[Romeo and Juliet]]''' (William Shakespeare, 1597) | |||
** Although Juliet is specified as being 13 years old, Romeo's age is not given, but it has been speculated that he may be much older, possibly over 20. | |||
* '''Death in Venice''' (Benjamin Britten, 1973) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | * '''Death in Venice''' (Benjamin Britten, 1973) <span style="color: green">('''MB''')</span> | ||
** A theatrical adaptation of Mann’s novella of the same name. | ** A theatrical adaptation of Mann’s novella of the same name. | ||
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* '''Miss Saigon''' (Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, 1989) <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | * '''Miss Saigon''' (Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, 1989) <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | ||
** A retelling of Madama Butterfly set in 1970s Saigon amidst the Vietnam war, it tells of a doomed romance between a United States marine and a 17-year-old south Vietnamese bargirl. | ** A retelling of Madama Butterfly set in 1970s Saigon amidst the Vietnam war, it tells of a doomed romance between a United States marine and a 17-year-old south Vietnamese bargirl. | ||
* '''A taste of Honey''' (Shelagh Delaney, 1958) <span style="color: red">('''MG''')</span> | |||
** Belonging to the kitchen sink realism genre of British theatre, the play tells the story of 15-year-old white working-class teenage schoolgirl Jo, as she is left alone in the new house by her tarty and lecherous mother. Jo begins a relationship with a black sailor Jimmy, which leaves her pregnant. But Jimmy must leave as he is a navy member, telling her that he'll return. | |||
== Video games == | == Video games == | ||
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This is fully documented at [[Music featuring attraction to minors]]. | This is fully documented at [[Music featuring attraction to minors]]. | ||
==External links== | |||
Other sites document the topic of minors in film and TV, outside of the MAP context. | |||
*[https://www.first-loves.net/forums/index.php First Love Movies] | |||
*[https://www.youthincinema.com/ Youth in Cinema] - And its associated network. | |||
==Notes== | |||
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Latest revision as of 18:58, 31 May 2024
This page serves to document instances of minor attraction in popular culture, particularly entertainment such as film, music, television, video games, and anime.
Such instances are of interest from a cultural standpoint, for example taking note of different views on minor attraction through different cultures and time periods, or the concepts of attraction to minors and adult-minor relationships being a common theme in societal subconscious and expressed in works of art despite an overlying taboo.
The following list is sorted by several categories, and each entry is labeled according to the type of relationship:
- Man-Girl (MG) - a relationship between an adult male and a female minor.
- Woman-Boy (WB) - a relationship between an adult female and a male minor.
- Man-Boy (MB) - a relationship between an adult male and a male minor.
- Woman-Girl (WG) - a relationship between an adult female and a female minor.
- Various (V) - Multiple types.
- N/A - Not applicable (features minor attraction or minor-attracted characters as a general concept).
Live-action movies
- See also PRD lists (may be outdated).
- Beau-pere (Bertrand Blier, 1981) (MG)
- The story is centered around the growing sexual infatuation a man has for his 15-year-old stepdaughter after his wife’s death.
- Laura, les ombres de l’ete (David Hamilton, 1979) (MG)
- An old artist becomes attracted to a pubescent girl.
- Fruhreifen-Report (Ernst Hofbauer, 1973) (MG)
- An anthology movie dealing with girls’ sexuality, the third part involving a man getting off from abusing his stepdaughter together with his wife.
- For a lost soldier (Roeland Kerbosch, 1992) (MB)
- The protagonist recounts his childhood in WW2-era Netherlands, in particular his romantic relationship with a Canadian soldier.
- La disubbidienza (Aldo Lado, 1981) (WB)
- An emotionally broken teenage partisan finds comfort in and becomes attracted to two adult women.
- Lolita (Stanley Kubrick, 1962) (MG)
- Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov, with the titular character played by Sue Lyon, then 16.
- Lolita (Adrian Lyne, 1997) (MG)
- Adrian Lyne’s adaptation of Nabokov’s “Lolita”, with the role of the titular girl played by a then-15-years-old Dominique Swain.
- Piccoli fuochi (Peter Del Monte, 1985) (WB)
- Tommaso, a little boy, bonds with his maid Mara.
- Piccole labbra (Mimmo Cattarinich, 1978) (MG)
- An Italian WW1 veteran becomes attracted to a 12-year-old gypsy girl.
- Les amities particulieres (Jean Delannoy, 1964) (MB)
- The story tells of the intimate relationship between a 17-year-old and 10-year-old boys in a catholic boarding school.
- The lover (Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1992) (MG)
- An adaptation of the novel “The Lover” by Marguerite Duras. An affair between a 30-year-old Chinese man and a 15-year-old French girl in colonial Vietnam.
- American beauty (Sam Mendes, 1999) (MG)
- Part of the plot is about the protagonist struggling with his sexual attraction for his daughter’s friend, a 16-year-old girl.
- Death in Venice (Luchino Visconti, 1972) (MB)
- An adaption of Mann’s novel of the same name, starring a then 14-year-old Björn Andrésen in the role of Tadeusz. A composer becomes obsessed with a beautiful teenage boy he meets in Venice.
- Meri Nimmo (Rahul Ganore Shanklya, 2018) (WB)
- Set in modern India, a young boy develops a romantic attraction for an adult woman.
- Sundays and Cybele (Serge Bourguignon, 1962) (MG)
- The film tells the tragic story of a friendship (with romantic undertones) between a young girl and an innocent but emotionally disabled veteran of the First Indochina War.
- Muidhond (Patrice Toye, 2019) (MG)
- A paedophile struggles with leading a normal life, especially now that one of the new neighbours is a young girl.
- The trouble with being born (Sandra Wollner, 2020) (MG)
- The first part of the movie deals with a man who has sex with an android that has the semblances of his now-deceased 10-year-old daughter.
- Cuties (Maïmouna Doucoure, 2020) (MG)
- A scene involves the girls successfully titillating some security guards.
- Guter Junge (Torsten C. Fischer, 2008) (MB)
- A tragic tale of a young pedophile as he struggles with his desires while living with his estranged but supportive father.
- Pretty baby (Louis Malle, 1978) (MG)
- Hattie, a prostitute and her 12-year-old daughter Violet meet photographer Ernest J. Bellocq. He fascinates Violet. Over the next few months, Hattie marries and goes to St. Louis, leaving Violet behind, and Violet determines to marry Bellocq.
- The Orphan (Jaume Collett-Serra, 2009) (MG)
- A scene involves the orphan, a 9-years-old girl, trying to seduce her adoptive father.
- Poison Ivy (Katt Shea, 1992) (MG)
- The 17-year-old actress plays the role of a seductress in this movie.
- Leon: The Professional (Luc Besson, 1994) (MG)
- The titular protagonist, a hitman, reciprocates the romantic affections of his protégée, played by a 12-years-old Natalie Portman.
- Beautiful girls (Ted Demme, 1996) (MG)
- A New York jazz pianist courts a 13-year-old girl
- Interview with the Vampire (Neil Jordan, 1994) (MG)
- An adaptation of Anna Rice’s novel of the same name, featuring a then 12-year-old Kirsten Durst in the role of the little vampire girl.
- Man on fire (Élie Chouraqui, 1987) (MG)
- Based on Quinnell’s novel of the same name, bodyguard gradually befriends his client, a wealthy 12-year-old girl. Romantic undertones are present.
- Man on Fire (Tony Scott, 2004) (MG)
- An Adaptation of Quinnell’s novel of the same name, starring a then 10-year-old Dakota Fanning in the role of the little girl.
- Anandi Gopal (Sameer Vidhwans, 2019) (MG)
- Biographical film of Anandi Gopal, the first female doctor. The movie also portrays the youth-adult marriage between her and a man in his late twenties whilst she was 9 years old.
- Blue Is the Warmest Colour (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013) (WG)
- The friendship between a 15-year-old girl and an adult woman takes an erotic turn.
- Love Strange Love (Walter Hugo Khouri, 1982) (WB)
- A 12-year-old boy is constantly sexually teased and taunted by young women in his stepfather’s house.
- Phoring (Indranil Roychowdhury, 2012) (WB)
- A young boy becomes infatuated with his teacher.
- Blank Check (Rupert Wainwright, 1994) (WB)
- An 11-year-old boy, after receiving a blank check, decides to spend all the money, including throwing an expensive party where he dates a teller from a bank.
- The Woodsman (Nicole Kassell, 2004) (N/A)
- The film follows a convicted child molester who must adjust to life after being released from prison.
- Kopfplatzen (Savaş Ceviz, 2019) (MB)
- It's about a pedophile who begins struggling with his attraction when a mother and her 8-year-old son move into the apartment next to him.
- Labyrinth (Jim Henson, 1986) (MG)
- The movie tells us a story of a teenage girl Sarah and a goblin king Jareth, obsessed with her.
- That’s my boy (Sean Anders, 2012) (WB)
- A satirical comedy which features a sexual relationship between a young student and a teacher. Though initially seeming disgusted by the student flirting with her, the teacher later seduces him.
- En Proie (David Guiraud, 2016) (MG)
- A shot film about Thomas and his struggles with his pedophilic attraction, with him trying as much as he can to abstain from certain habits via physical exercise. At his daughter's birthday party, his path crosses that of little Mathilde. What was only supposed to be a banal event like treating a wound then becomes a real ordeal for him.
- Softie (Samuel Theis, 2021) (MB)
- A coming-of-age movie following a troubled 10-year-old boy living with his single mother and two siblings in Forbach, France, as he struggles to reconcile the hardships of life and his sexuality, part of it including his almost-romantic relationship with his teacher.
- Elève libre (Joachim Lafosse, 2008) (MB)
- A sixteen-year-old aspiring tennis pro neglects his education in hopes of volleying his way straight to Wimbledon, but finds his ambitions sidelined when his relationship with his tutor takes a decidedly personal turn.
- Clément (Emmanuelle Bercot, 2001) (WB)
- A 13-year-old boy develops a crush on a grown woman old enough to be his mother while on a vacation at the beach, only to discover she is also attracted to him, in this controversial drama from France.
- Evolution (Lucile Hadžihalilović, 2015) (WB)
- A sci-fi horror thriller following Nicholas, a sickly young boy and his discovery of weird events surrounding his island. His friend and best helper is Stella, one of the island's nurses.
- Malèna (Giuseppe Tornatore, 2000) (WB)
- In a small WW2-era Sicilian town, teen boy Renato becomes obsessed with the town's pariah, a despised widow who's also envied for her beauty.
- The Man Without a Face, (1993, Mel Gibson), based on the novel The Man Without a Face by Isabelle Holland (MB)
- A disfigured teacher with a mysterious past forms a friendship with a troubled 12-year-old boy. Public suspicion over the nature of their relationship drives the film toward its climax, though the actual relationship between the two is left ambiguous.
- Lust och fägring stor, released in English as All Things Fair (Bo Widerberg, 1995) (WB)
- The story of a sexual relationship between a teacher and her 15-year-old student in Malmö, Sweden during World War II.
- L.I.E. (Michael Cuesta, 2001) (MB)
- The film about is about sexuality exploration and the relationship between a 15-year-old boy and a pederast.
- Kinsey (Bill Condon, 2004) (V)
- Kenneth Braun furnished Alfred C. Kinsey of the Kinsey Institute with a virtual autobiography of his sexual life. He claims sexual relations with 605 pre-adolescent males and with 231 pre-adolescent females as well as many family members.
- Gossenkind, released in English as Street Kid and Streetchild (Peter Kern, 1992) (MB)
- 14-year-old sex-worker meets an older man and loving relationship begins
- Eban and Charley (James Bolton, 2000) (MB)
- A 29-year-old forms an intimate relationship with a 14-year-old boy.
- Un enfant dans la foule (A Child in the Crowd) (Gérard Blain, 1976) (MB)
- 13-year-old Paul discovers that he is attractive to certain soldiers in 1944.
- Burning Secret (Andrew Birkin, 1988) (MB)
- An aristocrat becomes infatuated with a 12-year-old boy.
- Abuse (Arthur J. Bressan Jr., 1983) (MB)
- Thomas, an effeminate 14-year-old who is physically abused by his parents, has a relationship with a 30-year-old gay man
- Notes on a Scandal (2006, Richard Eyre), based on the novel Notes on a scandal by Zoë Heller (WB)
- A female teacher falls for a 15-year-old student and has sex with him.
- Running with Scissors, (2006,Ryan Murphy) (MB)
- 12 year-old boy and 33-year-old man enter an erratic sexual realationship.
- Sapore del Grano, released in the USA as The Flavor of Corn (1991, Gianni da Campo) (MB)
- Lorenzo, a professor, falls under the spell of Duilio, a 12-year-old pupil.
- Smukke dreng, released in the USA as Pretty Boy, (1993, Carsten Sonder) (MB)
- Nick, 13 year-old, fatherless, in search of father love met a professor of astronomy Ralph and a romance occurs.
- Me and You and Everyone we Know (Miranda July, 2005) (V)
- The structure of the film consists of several subplots which all revolve around an intertwined cast of characters. One of the subplots involves a 6-year-old boy chatting online with an unknown person and, when both decide to meet each other face-to-face, it's revealed that the unknown person was a woman, who kisses the boy before leaving. Another subplot involves two teen girls (a 17-year-old and a 14-year-old) befriending their neighbour, an old man, and decide to practice oral sex with him. Later, when the girls want to practice sex with him, he appears to be afraid after peeking through the window, pretending to not be at home, perhaps wary of the stigma.
- Chechu y familia (Álvaro Sáenz de Heredia, 1992) (WB)
- Chechu is a 13 year old boy who lives surrounded by peculiar people: his grandfather, his uncle, and two maids. He falls in love with one of them.
- Le Souffle au coeur, 1971, released as Murmur of the Heart in the USA and Dearest Love in the UK, directed by Louis Malle (WB)
- Incest between a 15-year-old boy and his mother.
- La virgen de los sicarios, released in English as Our Lady of the Assassins (2000, Barbet Schroeder) (MB)
- Fernando meets Alexis, a handsome gay youth, and immediately falls for him. According to the director, the relationship between Fernando and Alexis is patterned on Greek pederasty.
- Dreamchild (1985, Gavin Millar) (MG)
- The story is based on the life of Charles Dodgson/Lewis Carroll and told from the point of view of an elderly Alice (the child who inspired Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland). Alice revisits her memories of the Charles Dodgson. Via flashbacks, it is insinuated that Dodgson was infatuated with Alice, and that their relationship may have had sexual overtones.
- For My Daughter's Honor, also known as Indecent Seduction (1996, Alan Metzger) (MG)
- Fourteen-year-old Amy has just started high school. She notices Pete, the school's biology teacher and football coach. They take a sudden interest in each other. Although Pete has a wife and family, the two begin a secret relationship.
- Little Children, (2006, Todd Field) (N/A)
- The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations
- The Mark (1961, Guy Green) (N/A)
- A film about a convicted child molester, now out of prison, who is suspected in the sexual assault of another child. Having a genuine alibi, he became a pariah in his community. The film was criticised for making a pedophile too sympathetic.
- La Niña santa, released in English as The Holy Girl (2004, Lucrecia Martel) (MG)
- Teenage girls and best friends Amalia and Josefina begin to explore their burgeoning sexuality while being fervently Catholic.
- Palindromes (2004, Todd Solondz) (MG)
- Thirteen-year-old Aviva Victor wants to be a 'mom'. She does all she can to make this happen, and comes very close to succeeding.
- Short Eyes (1977, Robert M. Young) (N/A)
- A young man who is charged with child molestation is placed in New York City's infamous Tombs prison. When the other inmates in his cell block find out what he is charged with, life becomes extremely difficult for him.
- A Taste of Honey (Tony Richardson, 1961) adapted from the 1958 play of the same name by Shelagh Delaney. (MG)
- 17-year-old schoolgirl Jo begins a relationship with black sailor Jimmy as she moves into a run-down area of Salford with her self-centred, promiscuous, alcoholic mother. The relationship leaves Jo pregnant and alone, as she struggles with the imminent birth.
- Kung Fu Master (Agnès Varda, 1988) (WB)
- The drama stars the protagonist, Mary-Jane, befriending and flirting with her daughter's friend, 14-year-old Julien, beginning a close relationship between the two.
- Birth (Johnathan Glazer, 2004) (WB)
- 30-year-old Anna makes out with a 10-year-old boy, whom she is convinced is the reincarnation of her deceased husband Sean.
- Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979) (MG)
- Twice-divorced 42-year-old comedy writer Isaac Davis dates 17-year-old Tracy. After breaking up with her, and ending up in a failed affair with his friend's mistress, he runs back to Tracy.
- The Lifeguard (Liz W. Garcia, 2013) (WB)
- 30-year-old Leigh takes up her new job as a community pool lifeguard at her friend's high school, where she falls in love with the maintenance man's son, 16-year-old Jason.
- The Reader (Stephen Daldry, 2008) based on the book of the same title, written by Bernhard Schlink (WB)
- In 1958 West Germany, after 15-year-old Michael Berg falls ill on his way home, he gets helped by 36-year-old tram conductor Hanna Schmitz, with whom he begins a heated but short-lived affair. Years later, he now holds a secret that only he knows.
- Tadpole (Gary Winick, 2002) (WB)
- 15-year-old precocious boy Oscar Grubman tries to seduce his stepmother Eve, and has a tryst with Diane, Eve's friend.
- Notes on a scandal (Richard Eyre, 2006) (WB)
- Teacher Sheba has an illicit affair with her 15-year-old student, which is discovered by her colleague Barbara. Nowhere in the movie is the boy implied to be harmed by affair.
- Copenhagen (Mark Raso, 2014) (MG)
- 28-year-old William travels to Copenhagen to find out about his lost father. On the way, he develops a relationship with 14-year-old Effy, who is doing her grammar school internship at an hotel. Although William does reciprocate Effy's feelings, he still hesitates to due to her age.
- This is England (Shane Meadows, 2006) (WB)
- A troubled 12-year-old boy living in 80s England becomes the member of a skinhead gang after the death of his father in the Falkland War. Among the members of the gang he meets an older woman nicknamed Smell, offering to become her boyfriend.
Western animation
- An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster (Larry Latham, 1999) (MG)
- The protagonist’s sister tries to get in a relationship with a newspaper editor, a much older adult.
- Simba: è nato un re (Orlando Corradi, 1997) (MG)
- One of the female lion cubs has a crush for an older dog, which he reciprocates, although the cub’s mother is opposed to it.
Literature
- Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov, 1955) (MG)
- Set in 1950s America, the story concerns a middle-aged English professor and his sexual obsession with a 12-years-old girl.
- The enchanter (Vladimir Nabokov, 1985) (MG)
- A middle-aged man is conflicted by his own hebephilia, especially after his failed attempt at having sex with an adolescent girl.
- Laughter in the Dark (Vladimir Nabokov, 1938) (MG)
- A relationship between a middle-aged man and a 17-year-old aspiring actress.
- Ada or Ador: A Family Chronicle (Vladimir Nabokov, 1969) (MG)
- Some parts deal with hebephilia, with both protagonists beginning an incestuous affair in their early teens, as well as one of the protagonist’s half-sisters being infatuated with him when he’s 18 while the latter is 12-year-old.
- Transparent Things (Vladimir Nabokov, 1972) (MG)
- The narrator describes some of the characters express their attraction over young girls. One of the sub-plots deals with a university student having a relationship with a pubescent maid.
- Look at the Harlequins! (Vladimir Nabokov, 1974) (MG)
- The author’s fictional autobiography, wherein his stand-in protagonist deals with his attraction for his pubescent daughter.
- The Original of Laura (Vladimir Nabokov, 2009) (MG)
- Nabokov’s unfinished manuscript, some of the passages describe a man’s obsession with an unknown pubescent girl.
- The lover (Marguerite Duras, 1984) (MG)
- A semi-autobiographical novel recounting the author’s life in French Indochina, including her first sexual and romantic relationship with an old and rich Chinese-Vietnamese man, whilst she was 15.
- One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez, 1967) (MG)
- The patriarch’s second son, a warrior figure, courts a 7-year-old girl and consummates her at 9.
- Love in the time of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez, 1985) (MG)
- A male in his 70s has a relationship with a 14-year-old girl.
- Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Gabriel García Márquez, 2004) (MG)
- A love story between a 90-year-old man and a 14-year-old female prostitute.
- Of Love and Other Demons (Gabriel García Márquez, 1994) (MG)
- A priest falls in love with a dead 12-year-old girl.
- Death in Venice (Thomas Mann, 1912) (MB)
- An ennobled artist in Venice becomes increasingly obsessed at the sight of a teenage Polish boy.
- The Persian Boy (Mary Renault, 1972) (MB)
- Mary Renault was famous for her romantic novels on Pederasty in Ancient Greece. The Persian Boy was a bestseller within the Gay community, providing a sympathetic portrait of homosexual love through a relationship between Bagoas (16) and Alexander (then about 25). Renault depicts the attachment as lasting until Alexander's death, when Bagoas would have been about 23.
- The Last of the Wine (Mary Renault, 1956) (MB)
- Another bestseller within the Gay community. Renault's first novel set in Ancient Greece tells the love story of Alexias, a beautiful and noble Athenian youth and Socrates' student, who is desired and pursued by a number of older males because of his beauty. Alexias falls in love with Lysis, a male champion wrestler and student of Socrates in his 20s. Alexias's father approves of their relationship, which the novel follows through important historical events, ending by hinting at the eventual trial of Socrates for teaching blasphemy and sowing social disorder.
- Street Boy Dreams (Kevin Esser, 1983) (MB)
- Described as "best selling", Esser's book "was prasised for its honesty, subtlety and strength in narrating the relationship of a thirty-five year old teacher and a thirteen year old Hispanic street tough".[1] Included in LGBTQ+ group The Publishing Triangle's list of 100 best lesbian and gay novels in the late 1990s.[2]
- Mad to Be Saved - (Kevin Esser, 1985) (see more Esser's books on his page)(MB)
- An autobiographical novel by Kevin Esser that draws heavily on his experiences. The story reflects the protagonist's journey through adolescent life's challenges, marked by drug use, existential search, and sexuality exploration.
- Rico's Vleugels (Rico's Wings) (Rascha Peper, 1993) (MB)
- Nominated for the Dutch AKO Literature Prize in 1994, the novel follows the wealthy couple Eduard and Cecile Rochèl, as Eduard (now in his 60's) is inspired by a burgeoning mentor relationship with fourteen-year-old Rico Gabrieli. A married man with a history of flirting with young males and even a past affair with a 12/13 year-old brought to an end by his wife, as the publisher's description put it, "All the shells in the world pale in comparison to Rico's squinting eyes and narrow hips. Rochèl's all-consuming crush has dramatic consequences..."
- You Can Be a King If You Are Brave (Peter Thomas Wolfe, 2023) (MB)
- An Australian charity worker falls in love with a young Burmese boy amidst the growing taboo against such relationships, contribute in big part by the former’s colleagues.
- Alexander’s Choice (Edmund Marlowe, 2012) (MB)
- The book tells of the love affair of a new 13/14-years-old schoolboy and a new English master.
- The Fourth of June (David Benedictus, 1962) (MB)
- The book, based on the author’s experiences whilst attending Eton college, touches upon themes of love between older and younger schoolboys.
- The Link: A Victorian mystery (Robin Maugham, 1969) (MB)
- The story, centered around an investigation on a fictionalized version of the notorious Tichborne case, touches on the theme of boylove.
- My love is like all lovely things (C. Caunter & E. E. Bradford, 2023) (MB)
- A collection of boylove-themed poems.
- For a Lost Soldier (Rudi Van Dantzig, 1996) (MB)
- The novel tells the story of an 11-year-old boy in the nazi-occupied Netherlands who develops a relationship with a Canadian soldier.
- Nude men (Amanda Filipacchi, 1993) (MG)
- The initial plot centers on a man fighting off, then succumbing, under the seduction of an 11-year-old precocious girl.
- Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice, 1976) (MG)
- The film chronicles how two vampires turn a 10-year-old girl into one of them, with the story framed as an interview between a reporter and one of the male vampires. Some romantic undertones are present between the little girl and the interviewee.
- Man on Fire (A. J. Quinnell, 1980) (MG)
- A bodyguard gradually befriends his client, a wealthy and precocious little girl. Romantic undertones are present.
- Fire and Hemlock (Diana Wynne Jones, 1984) (MG)
- A fantasy story that details a love story between a young girl named Polly and Thomas Lynn, an adult man.
- Keepsakes and Treasures: A Love Story (Neil Gaiman, 2006) (V)
- A short story included in Neil Gaiman’s collection of short stories and poetry, the narrator of this story (Mr. Smith) is a pedophile exclusively attracted to girls, while his boss (Mr. Alice) is a pederast. Both characters are depicted as morally grey.
- Past the dark field (Heuvel Collins, 2019) (V)
- A collection of short fiction about non-offending, anti-contact minor-attracted persons.
- Starfish (Peter Watts, 1999) (N/A)
- A sci-fi novel where one of the characters is a sympathetic pedophile named Gerry Fischer. At some points, the narration follows his point of view, and it's revealed that he himself was molested as a child.
- The Abomination (Paul Golding, 2000) (MB)
- 9 year-old James Moore is molested by a teacher, Mr Wolfe. The boy, however, has been welcoming and indeed encouraging the master in his advances and the encounter is gentle and loving. Another master suspects what’s going on and the headmaster and James’ parents are informed, but James protects Mr Wolfe and the relationship continues past the boy’s 13th birthday.
- All American Boy (William J. Mann, 2005) (MB)
- 14-year-old Wally Day has a sexual relationship with a man called Zandy.
- Allan Stein (Matthew Stadler, 1999) (MB)
- After losing his high school teaching job over an accusation of sexual abuse, a writer assumes a false identity and starts a sexual relationship with another boy in France, 15-year-old Stéphane.
- Apples and Pears (in Apples and Pears: And Other Stories) (Guy Davenport, 2015) (MB)
- In the title story, a group of philosophers tries to establish an utopia in Amsterdam, harkening back to a prelapsarian world of uncomplicated sexuality and nature untarnished by human influence. The story concerns two bisexual Dutchmen, philosopher Adrian and younger painter Sander--now joined by Sander's sister Grietje and various post-pubescent boys in an assortment of socio-sexual experiments: posing nude for Sander, in all combinations; Sander/Grietje incest; pederasty; constant undressing, hugging; more painting, reading, masturbating.
- The Asbestos Diary (Casimir Dukahz, 1966) (MB)
- A novel about BoyLove. In a humorous style full of wildly inventive wordplay, Dukahz evoked "in a fashion appropriately episodic both the bittersweet transience of boyhood and all the adolescent silliness and surprise encountered by a man constantly available for the entertainment of boys."
- Avoidance (Michael Lowenthal, 2002) (MB)
- 28-year-old Jeremy becomes infatuated with Max, a 14-year-old at summer camp. When Max confides in him that he has been molested by the camp director, Jeremy realises just how close he came to actually committing the same crime.
- Acid Row (Minette Walters, 2001) (N/A)
- This is a story about mob psychology. When residents of a sink estate get word that a newcomer is in fact a convicted paedophile, coupled with the fact that a local 10 year old girl is missing, tempers soon start to flare. Unfortunately for all, the pedophile in question had nothing to do with the incident that incited the mob.
- Be Near Me (Andrew O'Hagan, 2006) (MB)
- A priest befriends Mark and Lisa, rebellious local teenagers. Their company stirs memories of a sinful choice he once made. But their friendship also ignites the suspicions and he is accused of molesting a troubled boy.
- Bilal's Bread (Sulayman X, 2005) (MB)
- Salim, now 26, has been sexually exploiting his 16-year-old younger brother Bilal since he was 9 years old. Salim treats his abuse of Bilal as a secret cultural ritual. Bilal struggles to understand his intuition that servicing his brother is wrong, while perceiving that there is something he deeply enjoys about a sexual relationship with his domineering, muscular older brother.
- Bom-Crioulo : the black man and the cabin boy (Adolfo Caminha, 1982) (MB)
- A sailor falls in love with a beautiful white boy.
- The Boys Across the Street (Rick Sandford, 2000) (MB)
- The riveting and often moving story of one man's obsession with a group of Yeshiva boys.
- The Brothers Bishop (Bart Yates, 2005) (MB)
- An attractive and sexually-aware boy Simon has a sexual encounter with an adult during summer school.
- Burn (Jennifer Natalya Fink, 2003) (MB)
- A middle-aged communist widow has an affair with a 13-year-old boy.
- The Cardiff Team (Guy Davenport, 1996) (MB)
- Adolescent boys explore their sexuality with each other and with adults.
- The Coming Storm (Paul Russell, 1999) (MB)
- 25 year-old Tracy Parker has a love affair with Noah, a troubled 15-year-old student at a boys' prep school in upstate New York.
- The Counterfeiters (André Gide, 1925) (MB)
- Edouard is sexually attracted to his young nephew George
- Crowstone (The Chronicles of Qamar) (Hakim Bey, aka Peter Lamborn Wilson, 1983) (MB)
- A story of sorcery and boy love.
- The Color Purple (Alice Walker, 1982) (WG)
- An adolescent girl Celie initially feels threatened by Shug who is a mistress of Celie’s abusive father. But then she realizes that she is sexually attracted to Shug. After a few years, Shug ends up helping Celie discover her sexuality as a woman and the two become lovers.
- Daimler (Pål Johan Karlsen, 2002) (MB)
- A middle-aged coach gets intimately involved with a fourteen-year-old boy, the great talent in the local cross-country skiing club.
- The Dissolution of Nicholas Dee (Matthew Stadler, 1993) (MB)
- Nicholas Dee, a young, history professor. One night, he is made the guardian of a beautiful teenaged delinquent, Oscar Vega. But the boy is a part of a scheme to ensnare Nicholas.
- Dream Boy (Jim Grimsley, 1995) (MB)
- Adolescent Nathan has a sexual relationship with Roy, an older boy who lives next door.
- The Dream Life (Bo Huston, 1992) (MB)
- A 33-year-old tutor Hollis goes off with Jed, a 14-year-old pupil.
- The Drummer of the Eleventh North Devonshire Fusiliers (Guy Davenport, 1990) (MB)
- Sexual relationships between teachers and adolescent boys.
- Dream Children (A. N. Wilson, 1998) (MG)
- Oliver Gold, a distinguished philosopher, feels he can only be happy with a child. Oliver, makes all the ladies around him fall in love with him, including a little girl named Bobs.
- Ekaterina (Donald Harington, 1993) (WB)
- 27-year-old Ekaterina has a sexual relationship with three 12-year-old boys - Kenny, Jason and then Travis Coe.
- Embrace (Mark Behr, 2001) (MB)
- Karl De Man, a 13-year-old pupil at an exclusive boys' school in 1970s South Africa falls in love with Dominic, a boy of his own age, whose parents know he is gay, and has a sexual relationship with his choirmaster, Jacques Cilliers.
- Enchanted Boy (Richie McMullen, 1989) (MB)
- An autobiographical novel. At the age of 8, Richie is persuaded by a man to have sexual contact. It is the first time he realizes the power a knowing boy can have over a desperate pedophile. And then, up to his 15, he goes through the adversities of boy’s prostitution, trying to escape abuse at his home.
- The End of Alice (A. M. Homes, 1996) (WB)
- A 19-year-old girl has a sexual relationship with a 12-year-old boy called Matthew and describes what she is doing in correspondence with a jailed child sexual abuser.
- The Elenium Trilogy (David Eddings, 1989) (MG)
- A 12-year-old princess is used to pervert a young priest.
- The Fall of Doctor Onslow (Frances Vernon, 1994) (MB)
- An English public school Headmaster is sexually attracted to many of the pupils and has affairs with several of them.
- Fenny Skaller from Books of the Nameless Love (John Henry Mackay, 1988) (MB)
- Fenny Skaller, a man in his forties, looks back on his life. Using photos, he relives disappointments and happy moments, remembering how he gradually realized that he loved boys between the ages of 14 and 17.
- Corydon (André Gide, 1924) (MB)
- The book consists of four socratic dialogues on homosexuality, with the first dialogue consisting of the author meeting his childhood friend, a man named Corydon, who tells his story. He was engaged and loved his future bride with an intense but chaste love, without passion. To disturb him further is the story of his girlfriend's brother, little more than a teenager, he too is troubled by the same unspeakable desires, he decides to confide in him, Corydon speaks to him very severely about the dangers and the social condemnation of those tendencies. After a few days the boy commits suicide by leaving a moving letter to Corydon in which he declares his love to him.
- Finistère (Fritz Peters, 1951) (MB)
- Michel falls in love with 15-year-old Matthew, one of his students.
- Firefly (Piers Anthony, 1992) (MG)
- 5-year-old Nymph seduces much older Maddock, who is on trial for molesting her.
- Golden States (Michael Cunningham, 1984) (MB)
- 12-year-old David has sexual encounters with a couple of men.
- Happy Baby (Stephen Elliott, 2004) (MB)
- Theo is put into care aged 13 and brutally treated and sexually abused by Mr. Gracie, his caseworker, who protects him from other physical abuse.
- Hearts in Atlantis (Stephen King, 1999) (MB)
- The first novel in the book tells a story of 12-year-old Bobby with a neglecting mother. He became close to older man who treated him well. They have no sexual relationship as Bobby’s mother think, but after being offered $2 for oral sex by a stranger, Bobby has a strange flashback as if being kissed by Ted.
- The Heavenly Cupid (1934), Water Cherubs (1936) and other texts by Ralph Nicholas Chubb (MB)
- The author seeks to articulate his pederastic desires by creating a personal mythology in his books.
- Hogg (Samuel R. Delany, 1969) (MB)
- The novel is told from the perspective of an eleven-year-old boy who joins up with "Hogg", a trucker and rapist-for-hire. The boy satisfies the extreme sexual demands of everyone around him. He describes how he enjoys all the perverted sexual acts and participates willingly in all Hogg's excesses.
- An Honorable Profession (John L'Heureux, 1991) (MB)
- A High School boy develops a crush on Miles Bannon, a popular English teacher. Miles fails to discourage it and this triggers accusations of child molestation when the boy commits suicide.
- The Hustler (John Henry Mackay, 2002) (MB)
- Homeless boys try to survive on the streets in Berlin in the 1920's. Jobs are hard to find, especially for fourteen year olds. The easiest path for these boys is to fall into the hustler life style, satisfying the sexual desires of older men.
- Happy Endings (David Cook, 1989) (MG)
- A series of vignettes about the lives of Morris, a 12 year old boy sent to an assessment centre after "interfering with" a 5 year old girl, and Stephen, a 33 year old schoolteacher who is attracted to teenage girls.
- The Immoralist, (published in France as L'immoraliste) (André Gide, 1902) (MB)
- Michel seeks out young Arab boys.
- In Tall Cotton (Charles Hulse, 1987) (MB)
- A boy's sexual adventures from age 7 to 14 with other children and adult men.
- Innocents(Cathy Coote, 2002) (MG)
- The unnamed teenage narrator embarks on a psychosexual campaign to emotionally and sexually dominate a male schoolteacher twice her age.
- Josey Rose: a novel (Jane Wood, 1998) (WB)
- A minister tries to molest 11-year-old Josey Rose who has a sexual relationship with Lily, the mysterious, beautiful young woman.
- Kit (Alan Edward, 1982) (MB)
- A man’s sexual relationship with a 12-year-old boy in an English psychiatric institute.
- Kite Music (Gary Shellhart, 1988) (MB)
- Peter, an American exchange teacher, goes to Thailand and falls in love with Wichai, a 12-year-old boy.
- Lamb (Bernard Mac Laverty, 1986) (MB)
- Brother Sebastian (née Michael Lamb) has formed an attachment to a 12-year-old boy called Owen Kane then abducts him from a reformatory hoping to be the boy's saviour.
- The Lantern Bearers (Ronald Frame, 2001) (MB)
- 14-year-old treble Neil Pritchard develops mutual affection with composer Euan Bone. Although Neil experiences homosexual urges toward Bone, they do not cross the line. When Neil became older Many years later, Neil discovers than Bone had sexual contact with another young boy.
- The Life I Lead (Keith Banner, 1999) (MB)
- The novel is written from Dave’s point of view who is a pedophile and has become attracted to a number of young boys over the years and molested them. Then he becomes obsessed with 8-year-old Nathan.
- Livre d'Or des Textes Pédophiles: Des origines à nos jours (P. de Saintogne, 1991) (V)
- An anthology of French literature with pedophile themes.
- Lord Dismiss Us (Michael Campbell, 1967) (MB)
- Carleton, a bright sixth former loves Allen, a boy two years his junior. Ashley, one of the teachers, loves Carleton, and there is also a new headmaster who wants to root out moral corruption.
- Lovesong (Elizabeth Jolley, 1997) (N/A)
- Dalton Foster is returned to his former community after his sentence and "a cure" in various institutions for half his life. Dalton is alone, depressed, and compulsively drawn to children.
- The Man Without a Face by Isabelle Holland, 1972 (MB)
- Justin McLeod teaches the troubled 12-year-old Chuck. McLeod is affectionate to him, and Chuck seems to be attracted to McLeod more than to a father figure. But then it led to accusations of sexual abuse.
- Middle Ground by Ursula Zilinsky, 1970 (MB)
- 14-year-old Tyl, a boy in a concentration camp, falls in love with his commander, Johannes, a senior Nazi officer, and Johannes is drawn to Tyl.
- The Moralist by Rod Downey, 2004 (MB)
- Red Rover mentors 12-year-old Jonathan and falls in love with him. Eventually, the deep friendship between man and boy develops into a sexual relationship. They both have to defend their relationship in the face of public accusations.
- Morning Star, Volume I of the novel sequences First Born of Egypt, by Simon Raven, 1984 (MB)
- Two Homosexual friends, Ptolemaeos Tunne and Jeremy Fielding, become infatuated with Marius, a 12-year-old boy, who has a nursery crush on Jeremy and persuades him to share his bed, though nothing sexual happens.
- A Natural Lizard Activity by B.J. Freedman, 1994 (MB)
- A 13-year-old boy's love affair with a 31-year-old man.
- Never the Same Again by Gerald Tesch, 1956 (MB)
- 13-year-old Johnny Parish has a sexual relationship with a man.
- Playing Soldiers in the Dark by Stephen Dueweke, 1992 (MB)
- An 14-year-old boy is loved by his Physics teacher.
- The Portrait of Mr. W.H. by Oscar Wilde, 1891 (MB)
- Puts forward the theory that some of Shakespeare's sonnets were dedicated to a beautiful boy actor called Willie Hughes
- The Priest: A Gothic Romance by Thomas M. Disch, 1995 (MB)
- A priest with a history of seducing altar boys is blackmailed into getting a satanic tattoo
- The Priest and the Acolyte by John Francis Bloxam, from The Chameleon, 1894 (MB)
- A short story of a tragic love between a priest and a 14-year-old acolyte.
- The Pupil by Henry James, 1891 (MB)
- Pemberton loves his 11-year-old pupil Morgan Moreen.
- The Photographer's Sweethearts by Diana Hartog, 1997 (N/A)
- A novel presents a human view of a pedophile. Told from the point of view of Louie Olsen, who delight the beauty of children, seeks out and befriends them, and encourages them to take part in his liberated ideas.
- Queer by William S. Burroughs, 1987 (MB)
- Lee lusts after a group of 12-14 year old Mexican boys.
- Reasons of the Heart by Bron Nicholls, 1993 (MB)
- Jonathan, an 11-year-old paper boy, moves with 25-year-old Fred and they live together in a sexual relationship for 5 years.
- Return to Innocence by Gary M. Frazier, 2011 (N/A)
- A 13-year old boy is taken into care after sexual abuse and then accuses his psychologist of abuse. Inside look at the processes and agendas involved in the prosecution of child sex abuse case.
- Rolling the R's by R. Zamora Linmark, 2016 (MB)
- 10-year-old Edgar, an openly gay boy, has a sexual relationship with the school caretaker.
- The Romance of a Choir Boy by John Gambril Nicholson, 1916 (reprinted in 2013) (MB)
- A young Anglican curate develops a chaste but intensely romantic affection for twelve-year-old local boy with a beautiful singing voice.
- A Room in the Woods by Patrick Drevet, 1991 (MB)
- A sexual relationship between a young man and a 12/13-year-old boy.
- Roger Fishbite by Emily Prager, 1999 (MG)
- Roger develops sexual relationship with Lucky, his eleven year-old step-daughter.
- Sandel by Angus Stewart, 1968 (MB)
- David Rogers, a 19-year-old student, falls in love with 13-year-old Antony Sandel and they have a sexual relationship.
- The Sex Offender by Matthew Stadler, 1994 (N/A)
- A man who has sexually abused a 12-year-old boy is subjected to perverse, surreal forms of aversion therapy.
- Shakespeare's Boy by Casimir Dukahz, 1991 (MB)
- 13-year-old Ruy is a boy actor playing female roles like Juliet and is portrayed as a willing participant in his sexual adventures.
- The Sorcerer's Apprentice by François Augiéras, 1964 (MB)
- An adolescent boy is sent to live with a 35-year-old priest, who becomes his mentor. He abuses him physically and sexually, but the boy willingly accepts his 'punishment.' Also, the adolescent falls in love with another boy, and the priest guides him how to love.
- Spur Piece from Derricks, 1951, a collection of short stories by James Barr (pseudonym of James Fugaté) (MB)
- A relationship, set in 1946, between Tom, recently discharged from the US Navy and 13-year-old Chris who works on the family farm. Tom suppresses his sexual feelings for four years.
- Sinner from The Wayfarer Redemption trilogy by Sara Douglass, 1997 (MG)
- Zenith, a powerful magician, is seduced by StarDrifter, his 11-year-old granddaughter.
- A Table of Green Fields: Ten Stories by Guy Davenport, 1993 (MB)
- 12-year-old boys explore their sexuality with each other and with adults.
- Terre Haute by Will Aitken, 1989 (MB)
- 14 year-old Jared loves Julian, the new curator of the local museum, and allows to sex happen.
- Time of our Darkness by Stephen Gray, 1989 (MB)
- The story of a homosexual teacher in 1980s Apartheid South Africa and his relationships with his long-term partner and a fourteen year old black boy.
- Touched by Scott Campbell, 1996 (MB)
- Jerry Houseman is in love with 12-year-old Robbie and doesn't understand why the rest of the world can't accept that the boy loves him back.
- The Tricky Part : One Boy's Fall from Trespass into Grace, an autobiographical novel, by Martin Moran, 2005 (MB)
- Between the age of 12 and 15, Martin Moran had a sexual relationship with Bob Doyle, a Vietnam Veteran. Moran is ambivalent about that.
- Treasure Box by Orson Scott Card, 1996 (WG)
- Rowena, an eleven-year-old witch, assumes the appearance of an adult woman through magic. Not knowing her true nature, Quentin, a thirty-five-year-old virgin, falls in love with her, has intercourse with her, and marries her.
- Until I Find You by John Irving, 2006 (WB)
- Five-year-old Jack is educated at girl’s school. He has relationships with older women, who initiate him into erotic life.
- What We Do Is Secret by Thorn Kief Hillsbery,2005 (MB)
- Rockets was ten years old when he first met young man Darby Crash, lead singer of LA punk band The Germs. He had sexual relationships with Darby and his friend Blitzer
- When Jonathan Died by Tony Duvert, 1978 (MB)
- Jonathan is a 27-year-old artist who befriends a single mother and her six-year-old son, Serge. Serge is aged 8, when Jonathan starts a romantic and sexual relationship with him. After a break, when Serge is 10, relationship continues, and the boy begins making sexual demands of his own.
- Wake of the Raven by Graham Worthington, 2007 (MG)
- An ex-soldier is isolated with a precocious 11-year-old girl. The story tells of his struggle to resist sexual entanglement.
- White Oleander by Janet Fitch, 1999 (MG)
- 14 year-old female character is implied to have had sexual relations with her male foster carer.
- The Reader (Bernhard Schlink, 1995) (WB)
- The book, a parable on how the post-war generation of Germany should deal with Nazi war crimes, tells the story of 15-year-old Michael Berg, who gets helped on his way home by 36-year-old illiterate tram conductor Hanna Schmitz. Afterwards, they begin an emotionally distant but physically close affair that goes on for months. Years later, he holds Hanna's secret and must decide whether or not to reveal it.
- Tampa (Alissa Nutting, 2012) (WB)
- The novel recounts middle school teacher (and hebephile) Celeste Price, her obsession with pubescent boys, as well as her seduction of one of her students, 14-year-old Jack Patrick.
- Psychohistorical crisis (Donald Kingsbury, 2001) (MG)
- In this award-winning sci-fi novel, many of the adult male characters like Rigone and the protagonist himself, Eron Osa, have intimate relationships with teen girls.
- Kevin (Wallace Hamilton, 1980) (MB)
- A gay novel about the love between a teenage boy and a mature man.
- The Autobiography of a Flea (Stanislas de Rhodes, 1887) (MG)
- The story is narrated by a flea who tells the tale of a beautiful young 14-year-old girl named Bella, who engages in sexual acts first with her young lover Charlie, and then the local priest Father Ambrose, two of his colleagues in holy orders, and her own uncle. Bella is then employed to procure her best friend, Julia, for the sexual enjoyment of both the priests and of her own father.
- The Romance of Lust (Anonymous, 1873–1876) (V)
- The novel, comprised of four volumes, catalogs protagonist Charlie Roberts' sexual experiences, be it his affairs with his governesses I his teens, as well as of other characters, such as one of the Count's mistresses having sex with a 12-year-old cabin boy among other men in a six-weeks sea fare, and the incestuous relationship between Charlie's wife and her father when she was 9.
- Lolito (Ben Brooks, 2013) (WB)
- 15-year-old schoolboy Etgar, after his break up with Alice, interacts online with 42-year-old housewife and headteacher Macy under the fake identity of a mortgage broker in his 20s. The plot builds up its climax to their meet up and eventual affair, and there's little commentary on the age gap in the novel.
- The Panthology Reader vol.1-4 and The Acolyte Reader Vol. 1-12 (Kevin Esser et al.,1981-1996) (MB)
- A series of total sixteen anthologies of short stories about boy-love. The stories are by various authors, but all the volumes were edited by the American writer Frank Torey (1928-96). "The stories included in this and all the later volumes were very varied in quality, but even the poorer ones are lent a special importance by their being the first free expression in print of feelings and ideas that had been silenced for centuries and were soon to be silenced again." [3]
Non-fiction literature
- The Death of Narcissus by Morris Fraser, 1976 (N/A)
- The author examines pedophilia through the works of Henry James, Forrest Reid, J.M. Barrie, and many others, with an in depth analyses of the underlying pedophilic nature or sexual symbolism of Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, The Turn of the Screw and more.
- Autobiography of an Englishman by "Y", 1975 (N/A)
- It chronicles the life of a homosexual man who was born in the 1920s. A sexually repressive environment at home and at public school negatively impacted his sexuality and psychological well-being
- Britten's Children by John Bridcut, 2006 (MB)
- The composer Benjamin Britten's obsessional, yet innocent, relationships with young boys.
- Escape From The Shadows by Robin Maugham, 1972 (MB)
- Maugham describes the night-time activities of pre-war pedophile Prep school masters
- The Full Monty: Montgomery of Alamein, 1887-1942 Vol 1 by Nigel Hamilton (MB)
- Field Marshal Montgomery's platonic love for young men and boys including 12-year-old Lucien Trueb, with whom he corresponded for many years.
- Book Twelve of the Greek Anthology translated by W.R.Paton, 1916 (MB)
- Contains explicit poetry and epigrams on boy love.
- If it die by André Gide, 2001 (published in France in 1902 as Si le grain ne meurt) (MB)
- Gide's unapologetic account of his awakening homosexual desire.
- Moab is My Washpot by Stephen Fry, 1997 (MB)
- 14-year-old Fry becomes besotted with 13-year-old boy and is also seduced by a prefect Oliver Derwent.
- The Real Tadzio: Thomas Mann's Death in Venice and the Boy Who Inspired It by Gilbert Adair, 2003 (MB)
- The story of Mann's infatuation with a beautiful 11-year-old Polish boy.
- The World, The Flesh and Myself by Michael Davidson, 1962 (MB)
- Davidson describes how he sought out young boys and adolescents for sex in 1930s London.
- Some Boys by Michael Davidson, 1970 (MB)
- Davidson's follow up to The World, The Flesh and Myself
- L'enfant Au Masculin by Tony Duvert, 1980 (N/A)
- Author calls to unity of homosexuals and pedophiles and to sexual rights of children.
- Balthus by Nicholas Fox Weber, 1999 (MG)
- Describes Balthus' erotic paintings of very young girls in works such as such as The Guitar Lesson.
- Casanova's Women: The Great Seducer and the Women He Loved by Judith Summers, 2006 (MG)
- Casanova tries to seduce his own 10-year-old daughter
- Remembering Satan by Lawrence Wright, 1995 (N/A)
- The true story of Paul Ingram and the controversy over sex abuse convictions based on recovered memories.
- Books on Michael Jackson's relationships with boys include: (MB)
- All That Glitters: The Crime and the Cover-up by Raymond Chandler, 2004
- Be Careful Who You Love: Inside the Michael Jackson Case by Diane Dimond, 2009
- Michael Jackson: The Man behind the Mask by Bob Jones and Stacy Brown, 2010
- Michael Jackson Was My Lover: The Secret Diary of Jordie Chandler by Victor M. Gutierrez, 1998
- Redemption: The Truth Behind the Michael Jackson Child Molestation Allegations by Geraldine Hughes, 2004
- Michael Jackson’s Dangerous Liaisons by Thomas O'Carroll, 2010
- a comprehensive review of the late entertainer’s controversially intimate relationships with preadolescent and adolescent boys
- Tiger, Tiger: A Memoir (Margaux Artemia Fragoso, 2011) (MG)
- The author recollects her tumultuous sexual relationship with an elderly man, which began when she was 7.
- Teardrops on My Drum, an autobiographical novel, by Jack Robinson, 1998 (MB)
- A Memoir of Robinson’s sexually precocious boyhood. He searches the city for adventure, love and sex, and joins the army as a fourteen-year-old boy soldier.
- Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs, 2002 (MB)
- 12-year-old Burroughs is sent to live with his mother's psychiatrist Dr. Finch when his parents separate. Burroughs has an extended sexual relationship, aged 13 to 15, with Neil Bookman, the 33-year-old adopted son of the psychiatrist.
- A Dangerous Love by Stephen Nicholson and edited by Edmund Marlowe (author of Alexander's Choice), 2023 (MB)
- It is a memoir which gives an account of his life as a boylover.
- The Trucker and The Teens: Volume 1 by Colantuono, Louis A., 1984. PDF. Review. (MB)
- Five years of the hectic life on the road of a Californian, written while in prison for his considerable sexual activity with boys.
- Teardrops on My Drum by Jack Robinson, 1986. PDF. Review. (MB)
- The eye-opening autobiography down to the age of fourteen of a poor but high-spirited boy sexually involved with men and other boys from the age of eleven. Set mostly in Liverpool in the early 1930s.
- Jack and Jamie Go to War by Jack Robinson, 1988. PDF. (MB)
- A continuation of Robinson's story as a soldier and lover from 1937 until the end of the 2nd World War, aged 15 to 24, during which time he made the classical Greek transition from beloved to lover of adolescent boys. Not nearly as remarkable a story as its predecessor.
- The North China Lover (Marguerite Duras, 1991) (MG)
- The events described in her previous novel, The Lover, is retold in third person style, allowing the author to recount her first love in a more autobiographical and detached way.
- My Secret Life (Walter, 1888) (V)
- This 11-volumes-long alleged memoir of a Victorian gentlemen called “Walter” covers his sexual development in his life, including his sex-play with his maid-servants during his childhood, and his activities in London’s houses of prostitution that involved underage female prostitutes.
- Flannelled Fool, (T. C. Worsley, 1967) (MB)
- An autobiographical novel where author describes his fascination with a series of beautiful boys whom he taught as a young master.
- Kim, My Beloved (Jens Eisenhardt, 1981) (MB)
- This is the autobiographical story of a schoolteacher's passionate love for his boy pupil in provincial Denmark, consummated in 1962 when they were respectively thirty and fifteen.
- 35 Cents (Matty Lee, 2006) (MB)
- 35 Cents is an autobiographical story of a straight, young, white boy growing up and coming of age as he hustles his way both through the gay community and the juvenile-detention system of South Florida in the late 1980s. It is also the amount he made when he turned his first trick at 13.
- The Boston sex scandal (John Mitzel, 1980) (MB)
- 20 men in the Boston area were arrested and charged with sex with boys. It is detailed and documents story of the official attack on gay and MAP rights unleashed in Boston. Also this is "the story of a resistance, begun by a few radical homosexuals, which built on the gay community so that, for the first time, the gay movement embraced gay pedophiles and their cause and fought back."
Scientific popular literature
- Child-Loving by James R. Kincaid, 1992 (N/A)
- This work traces the growth of the Victorian and modern conceptions of the body, the child, sexuality, and the stories we tell about them.
- Erotic Innocence: The culture of child molesting by James R. Kincaid, 1998 (N/A)
- Author explores contemporary America’s preoccupation with stories about the sexual abuse of children.
- Loving Boys , vol.1 (1986) and vol. 2(1990) by Edward Brongersma (MB)
- Loving Boys is the culmination of a lifetime’s work by Edward Brongersma about man-boy love. It explores the sexuality of boys, and how boys perceive the friendships and sex they share with their older friends, positive and negative aspects of man/boy relations, and the effects of sexual repression and sexual liberation.
- Male Intergenerational Intimacy: Historical, Socio-Psychological, and Legal Perspectives by Theo Sandfort, 1991 (MB)
- Historical, legal, sociological, psychological, and cross-disciplinary research on male intergenerational intimacy.
- The Trauma Myth by Susan Clancy, 2010 (MG)
- It documents interviews of adults who identified as survivors of CSA. Clancy argues that the popular perception of CSA as a universally damaging experience has been overblown by media and popular culture. She suggests that trauma-like experiences from insignificant or harmless sexual encounters are usually created through a reconceptualization process later in life.
- Harmful to Minors by Judith Levine, 2002 (N/A)
- This book proposes that laws, programs and terminology aimed at "protecting children" from sex cause more damage than they prevent. The book cites a wide array of research in medical, psychological, historical, and criminological fields, along with many interviews to support its conclusions.
- Censoring Sex Research by editors Thomas K. Hubbard and Beert Verstraete, 2013 (MB)
- This book presents a substantially extended version of Rind’s article where he concludes the absence of harm in consensual sexual relations between male adults and adolescents, and it’s cultural and evolutionary origins, plus 12 scholarly responses to his work that argue for or against Rind’s conclusions.
- Public sex: The Culture of Radical Sexby Patrick Califia, 1994 (and 2nd edition, 2000) (N/A)
- The bulk of Califia's work on sexual repression and censorship, includes articles on sex age of consent, children's rights, sex panic.
- Paedophilia - The Radical Case by Tom O'Carroll, 1980 (N/A)
- Notable book on ethics of adult-child sex, includes chapters on child's sexual needs, consent, power, equality and other topics.
Comics
- Chester the Molester (Dwaine B. Tinsley, 1976-1989) (MG)
- A comedic strip for the magazine Hustler, centred around a man molesting little girls in absurd ways.
- Le Petit Spirou (Tome and Janry, 1987-present) (WB)
- A spin-off imagining Spirou's childhood. Features lots of sex comedy, with many of the jokes involving boys and women in erotic situations.
- Titeuf (Zep, 1992-present) (WB)
- The stories center around how children perceive the adult world, with some of the jokes involving boys like the titular character trying to get laid with women like the schools nurse.
- All Princesses Die Before Dawn (Zuttion Quentin, 2022) (MG)
- A sub-plot involves the protagonist's teenage sister, Cam, having a secret relationship with a much older man from college, although they break up by the end of the comic.
TV shows (live action)
- Pehredaar Piya Ki (Amandeep Singh & Huma Pawan Singh, 2017) (WB)
- A young boy inherits his family’s fortune but needs to marry a woman 9 years his senior first.
- Jhansi Ki Rani (Abhimanyu Singh, 2009-2011) (MG)
- Historical drama based on the life of Indian national hero Lakshmi Bai, the Rani of Jhansi, who married Gangadhar Rao Newalkar, king of Jhansi, at the age of 14.
- Black Mirror (3x03 Shut Up and Dance) (James Watkins, 2016) (N/A)
- The episode focuses on a pedophile who is blackmailed by hackers who record footage of him masturbating to child pornography. They use this footage to force him to perform a series of tasks escalating in their seriousness and ending with a fight to the death against another offending pedophile. Despite following their orders, his secret is revealed, and the episode ends when he is confronted by police. This portrayal stands out because the protagonist is portrayed as sympathetic and the audience is supposed to root for him, with his attraction to children only being revealed at the end.
- Picket Fences (David E. Kelley, 1992-1996)
- 1x13 (Oz Scott, 1992) (MG): Sheriff Jimmy Brock wants to arrest a 19-year-old man for statutory rape after having sex with his daughter Kimberly. The episode discusses some of the issues surrounding age of consent laws with nuance.
- 1x14 (Michael Schultz, 1993) (WB): Matthew dreams of sheriff’s deputy Maxine flashing her breasts to him in a non-explicit scene, said dream being interrupted after the boy got an erection.
- Once and again (Edward Zwick & Marshall Herskovitz, 1999-2002) (MG)
- A high school student and regular character pursues a romantic relationship with her teacher, with him reciprocating her affections.
- Shameless (Paul Abbott, 2011-2021) (V)
- The first season of the American adaptation of British TV show Shameless features a consensual relationship between a middle-aged man and a 15-year-old boy. It also shows one of the protagonists, a middle-aged man, being attracted to a 15-year-old girl, but not acting on this attraction despite her advances towards him. She eventually rapes him while he is under the influence of drugs and thus unable to fight back, and other characters, especially one of his sons, then assume that he raped her. In the second season, he is investigated by police, but the investigation is dropped when she reveals that she was the one who took advantage of him, not the other way around.
- A Teacher (Hannah Fidell, 2020) (WB)
- Set in the span of 10 years, this crime series follows an English high school teacher woman in her early 30s and her 17-year-old student boy as they begin a hidden illicit relationship.
Anime and manga
- See also Lolicon
- Kodomo no Jikan (MG)
- A comedy revolving around a precocious 9 year old girl’s determined attempts at seducing her 23-year-old teacher.
- Cardcaptor Sakura (MG)
- A secondary character, an elementary school girl, begins a romance with her male teacher.
- Narutaru (MG)
- By the end of the manga, the female protagonist is already in the first year of junior high and begins a relationship with one of her allies, a young man.
- The Ancient Magus’ bride (MG)
- An ancient mage buys a slave, a 16-year-old girl, and takes her under his wing as his apprentice and bride.
- Higehiro (MG)
- A man develops feelings for a 16-years-old runaway girl that he takes in.
- A bride’s story/Otoyomegatari (WB)
- Set in the backdrop of the Russian conquest of Central Asia, the series follows the relationship between a 20-year-old young woman and her husband 8 years her junior, as they struggle to keep their living-hood amidst the imperial Russian army’s advance.
- Domestic girlfriend (WB)
- A teenage boy becomes entangled in a love triangle, with one of the crushes being his teacher.
- Loveless (V)
- The main character, a pubescent boy, begins a romantic relationship with an adult man as they struggle to survive in a hostile world. There also other age-gap yaoi and yuri relationships.
- Happy Sugar Life (WG)
- Centers on a relationship between teenage girl Satou Matsuzaka and a 7-year-old girl Shio Kōbe, whom she becomes deliriously obsessed with.
- After the rain (MG)
- A 17-years-old girl struggles with her feelings for a man more than 20 years her senior.
- Oku-sama wa Joshi Kosei (MG)
- A married 17-year-old girl must wait until graduation before she can have sex with her husband, her own teacher.
- Negima! Magister Negi Magi (WB)
- Throughout the story’s course, 10-year-old teacher Negi has many romantic relationships, including with much older girls.
- Ore Wa Lolicon Ja Nai! (MG)
- A male teacher must deal with many elementary school girls infatuated with him, especially an 11-year-old time traveller that wants to marry him.
- Furuya-Sensei Wa An-Chan no mono (MG)
- A 1st year high school girl falls in love for the first time with her teacher.
- Hanayomesama wa 16-sai (MG)
- After her mother’s death, a 16-year-old girl must be married to a rich man 5 years her senior as part of her mother’s will.
- Aoi-san wa 16-sai toshishita (MG)
- A comedy following a baker in his late 20s trying to court an elementary schoolgirl.
- Oshite Dame nara Oshite miro! (MG)
- A girl who is only romantically attracted to snakes falls in love with her teacher.
- Ora, Yomekko sa ikuda! Cosplay JK no Himitsu no Aijou (MG)
- A 15-year-old girl must wait until she’s 16 before she can marry her art teacher.
- Oshieko Kara Nigerarenai (MG)
- A diligent high-school girl and a lazy teacher begin a romantic relationship.
- Junsui adolescence (WG)
- A romantic but difficult relationship between a diligent high school girl and the school nurse ensues.
- News Na Kare! (MB)
- The story is about the budding relationship between an actor and his crush, a high-school boy.
- Sensei to Watashi (MG)
- A 16-year-old girl substitutes for her sister at an arranged meeting and ends up falling in love with her new home room teacher.
- OhoShisama ni Onegai! (MG)
- The series follows the blossoming relationship between a junior high tomboy and her former beloved childhood neighbour, now her 23-year-old class advisor.
- Yankee Shota to Otaku Onee-san (WB)
- A shy otaku starts to have feelings for her neighbour’s child, an 11-year-old delinquent.
- Inaka ni Kaeru to Yakeni Jiben ni Natsuita Kasshoku (MB)
- A slice-of-life comedy following a university student and his relationship with his younger cousin.
- Shota x Oni (MB)
- The story follows an elementary school boy and his feelings for his best friend that he feels protective of, a high schooler.
- Sasaki and Miyano (MB)
- A delinquent high school senpai tries to get closer with a feisty kouhai, with their friendship gradually becoming romantic.
- Speed Grapher (MG)
- The series follows a 33-year-old war photographer using his powers, found after being kissed by a 15-year-old girl, to save the girl from the clutches of the head of a powerful secret club.
- Wataten (WG)
- A shy college student becomes smitten by her younger sister’s classmate and begins having her dress up in cosplay in exchange for snacks. The series follows the student as she grows closer to the classmate and her other friends.
- Oneesan wa Joshi Shougakusei ni Kyoumi ga Arimasu (WG)
- The comedic story about a high school teacher, who happens to be a pedophile, and the girl she babysits with her roommate!
- Ichigo Mashimaro (WG)
- The story tells of the adventure of four elementary school girls and their older sister-figure Nobue, who is suggested to derive sensual pleasure from seeing the girls playing, making Nobue appear as a moe enthusiast.
- Ryūō no Oshigoto! (MG)
- A prodigy shogi player takes a 9-year-old girl with as his disciple and the two brace themselves together in the world of shogi, making friends and rivals. The young girl is very possessive of her master, displaying yandere traits.
- Niehime to Kemono no Ō (MG)
- The king of beasts and demons, intrigued by one of his sacrificial humans, a young girl with nothing left to live for, decides to take her as his consort and make her queen of his kingdom.
- Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan, literally translated as Club-To-Death Angel (MG)
- It's a fiction series written by Masaki Okayu from which an anime version was created. A young boy stops girls aged 12 from maturing and is accused of creating a pedophile's heaven.
- Dragon Ball (MB)
- It is the first part of the anime adaptation of the Dragon Ball manga written by Akira Toriyama. Blue displays sexual interest towards a young boy.
- Toshiba elite onna kishi ga boku no mae de dake kawaii (WB)
- 16-year-old Haru, recruit of the "Black Hawk" 4th Cavalry Unit of the knights' regiment, teases his virgin captain Karen in a bid to steal her heart.
- Kiss in the Dark (MB)
- Mira Munakata is a first-year high school student involved in a romantic and sexual relationship with his adoptive father, a famous actor named Kyōsuke Munakata.
- Super Lovers (MB)
- This shounen-ai series follows the relationship between 16-year-old adopted family member Haru Kaidō and his 8-year-old step-brother, Ren Kaidō, which gradually becomes more romantic as the series progresses.
- Koi Kaze (MG)
- Twenty-eight-year-old Koshiro Saeki, who lives with his divorced father Zenzo, is dumped by his girlfriend. While on a train the morning after, he sees 15-year-old high school student Nanoka Kohinata. As they get to Zenzo's house, they're shocked to discover that they're siblings. Even when realising the truth, their feelings for each other do not go away, no matter what they do. At the end, they decide to continue their relationship.
- But I'm Your Teacher (MB)
- The manga work by Yoshino Somei. It's a short story where a convicted pedophile photographer picks up a young foreign boy in order to use him as the subject of his work. Throughout the story, the boy is raped by a man brought in by the photographer, and later instigates consensual sex with the photographer himself.
- Boku no Pico (MB)
- Young man seduces an adolescent boy mistaking him for a young girl, but continues the relationship after realizing his true gender.
- Astarotte no Omocha! (Anime) and Lotte no Omocha (manga) (V)
- In the realm of Álfheimr, 10-year-old succubus princess Astarotte ‘Lotte’ Ygvar takes in 23-year-old Naoya Tohara as part of Judit’s plan to increase the princess’s harem of men. 10 years prior to the series’s start, Lotte’s mother conceived a child with the then 13-year-old Naoya when she was 19 years old.
- Shoujo Ramune (MG)
- Kiyoshi Tachikawa runs a candy store in a small town. His shop is regularly visited by three girls in particular: Chie Sayama, Tenka Adachi, and Komako Semenovich. Due to his friendly and easygoing demeanor, the not-so-innocent girls quickly take to Kiyoshi, seeking his attention and help with their problems. They soon develop romantic feelings toward him and gladly leave their bodies in his care, passing time in his house by indulging in sexual pleasures.
- Ichinen Buri no The Animation (MG)
- A college student goes to the countryside for the summer break. Greeting him on his arrival is his little cousin, Anna, who refers to him as "Kou-chan." They soon start hanging out, reminiscing their childhood together. Eventually, the two visit an inconspicuous hut—the place where Kou-chan seduced Anna during his previous visit. It is here that Anna is determined to make the most of her cousin's stay and show him how much she's matured over the last year. As memories of their last encounter resurface, she invites him to take the plunge into a whirlpool of sexual pleasure and continue where they started.
Documentaries
- Freiheit fur die Liebe (Eberhard & Phyllis Kronhausen, 1969) (MG)
- The first part deals with issues surrounding age of consent laws, through the prism of a man having to hide his sexual relationship with a 16-year-old girl.
- Are All Men Pedophiles? (Jan-Willem Breure, 2012) (MG)
- The documentary discusses pedophilia, hebephilia and ephebophilia and how society conflates and demonises all three forms of attraction, with adverse results.
- I, Pedophile (Matthew Campea, 2016) (V)
- A documentary looking into the lives of non-offending MAPs and their various issues.
- The Paedophile Next Door (Rudolph Herzog, 2014) (V)
- Similar to I, Pedophile, featuring experts from the NSPCC, Metropolitan Police and preventionist scholar, Sarah Goode among others.
- Chicken Hawk: Men Who Love Boys (Adi Sideman, 1994) (MB)
- The documentary recounts the history of NAMBLA, showcasing the organisation's photos and bulletins, as well as profiling its members as they discuss relationships between adult men and boys below the age of consent. Allen Ginsberg is also featured, reciting a poem dedicated to youth.
Musicals and theatre
- Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare, 1597)
- Although Juliet is specified as being 13 years old, Romeo's age is not given, but it has been speculated that he may be much older, possibly over 20.
- Death in Venice (Benjamin Britten, 1973) (MB)
- A theatrical adaptation of Mann’s novella of the same name.
- The Vagina Monologues (Eve Ensler, 1996) (WG)
- A section of the play, titled “The Little Coochie Snorcher That Could” recounts the experience of a 13-year-old girl’s relationship with a much older woman.
- Downstate (Bruce Norris, 2018) (V)
- A thought-provoking play following the daily lives of convicted child molesters living in a group home, with one act having one of the victims (now a rich young man) confront its abusers, with the former being portrayed negatively.
- Faust (Charles Gounod, 1859) (MG)
- In the first part, the protagonist of the play falls in love with a 14-year-old girl and employs the help of the devil to pursue a relationship with her. Both her mother and brother die because of disapproving of the relationship. The girl eventually gets pregnant and ends up drowning her new born, for which she gets convicted and goes to prison. When the protagonist tries to rescue her, she refuses, and subsequently voices from heaven announce that she shall be saved.
- Erl-king (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1782) (MB)
- A famous ballad written by about the death of a young boy. Before his death, the boy claims to see a supernatural entity which he calls Erl-King, who tries to convince him to give up on his life. Though many aspects of this ballad are up for interpretation, pedophilic themes are referenced, especially in the line "I love thee, I'm charm'd by thy beauty, dear boy / And if thou'rt unwilling, then force I'll employ”. The idea that the Erl-King could have been attracted to the boy, and the boy’s death as a possible metaphor for sexual abuse, seem likely considering Goethe himself described feeling attraction to young boys.
- Madama Butterfly (Giacomo Puccini, 1782) (MG)
- Set in 1904 Japan, it tells a tragic love affair between a 15-year-old Geisha and an American naval officer who’s marrying her for convenience but regrets his choice later.
- Miss Saigon (Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, 1989) (MG)
- A retelling of Madama Butterfly set in 1970s Saigon amidst the Vietnam war, it tells of a doomed romance between a United States marine and a 17-year-old south Vietnamese bargirl.
- A taste of Honey (Shelagh Delaney, 1958) (MG)
- Belonging to the kitchen sink realism genre of British theatre, the play tells the story of 15-year-old white working-class teenage schoolgirl Jo, as she is left alone in the new house by her tarty and lecherous mother. Jo begins a relationship with a black sailor Jimmy, which leaves her pregnant. But Jimmy must leave as he is a navy member, telling her that he'll return.
Video games
- Bernd and the mystery of Unteralterbach (MG)
- A visual novel where an adult male NEET must uncover the mysteries surrounding a small German town. Pedophilia is discussed in the story.
- Dorei to no Seikatsu – Teaching Feeling – (FreakilyCharming, 2015) (MG)
- The game is about a doctor becoming with a young slave girl, and the player’s decision will determine the doctor’s personality.
- Nekopara (NEKO WORKs, 2014) (MG)
- An eroge taking place in a world where humans coexist with catgirls, the VN series follows the protagonist working with catgirls at a café, with the protagonist romancing two of the catgirls that are 12 years old in human years.
- Musume Seikatsu (Fiction7) (MG)
- A “raise-you-daughter” + dating simulator, with the range of interactions (including sexual) expanding as the intimacy between the girl and the player increases.
- Shoujo Kyouiku (Tanuki Soft) (MG)
- A newly transferred teacher at a girl’s school in his thirties befriends three of his students with communication problems, and a ghost.
- Bosei ~Mama Club~ (Complet’s) (WB)
- Main character has dreams about his mother-in-law. One day he forgets his homework and school and comes later to pick it up. Inside school building he sees secret act of a school boy committing a woman that suits to be his mother. Next day he is invited to school infirmary and given offer to join "Mama club" that connects young male students and mature women.
- Byakko no Kamikakushi (Kizaruya) (WB)
- In a strange summer village festival, a boy separated from his friend is seduced by a spirit in the form of a fox-woman.
- Damegane (10mile) (WB)
- Takuto starts living at his cousin's house because of some reasons. There are three daughters, Tooko, Chikako and Ranko. He meets them for the first time in several years, but they are now all unsophisticated. Well, their battle for Takuto starts now!
- Batman: Arkham Origins (Warner Bros. Games, 2013) (MG)
- The action-adventure game features cutscenes of a 15-year-old Barbara Gordon arguing with her father over Batman, as well as her helping Batman in one of his mission and promising to help him next time, with the scene having some romantic undertones,
Music and music videos
This is fully documented at Music featuring attraction to minors.
External links
Other sites document the topic of minors in film and TV, outside of the MAP context.
- First Love Movies
- Youth in Cinema - And its associated network.
Notes
- ↑ Quote from the back cover of Kevin Esser, Mad to Be Saved (Gay Presses of New York, 1985).
- ↑ Best Lesbian and Gay Novels, The Publishing Triangle (New York).
- ↑ Synopsis of The Panthology Reader and The Acolyte Reader series on Greek-love.com
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