What literature can be referred to about the idea of inter-generational intimacy, and/or homosexual pederastic relationships? Specifically, beyond personal acceptance by the author of such relationships - what is the Lolita of pederasty?
I know noted authors who have accepted pederasty and/or fantasized about relationships with young boys are
>Greeks
>Oscar Wilde
>Walt Whitman
>Allen Ginsberg
>Andre Gide
>Goethe
>Michelangelo
>Leonardo da Vinci
>Horatio Alger
>Shakespeare
I need to write a college essay on LGBT literature, and feel like to address the oft-mentioned literary tradition/acceptance of pederasty. Not in specific regard toMilo
Death in Venice.
>>9338025
Read Vergil's Second Eclogue. The shepherd-poet Corydon is in love with the young male sex slave of his master, Alexis. (The sex slave part is implied, not overt. The pangs of love are overt.) In short,
>Romans, too
kek, I find it so strange that barely anyone ever seems to address the strong pederastic vein throbbing through 90% of pre- and early modern 'lgbt' lit. I wonder how many college girls and redditors know about Oscar Wilde's boy fucking and just don't care
also I made this list.
>>9338079
Mmmm, thank you for including Catullus :3Talk to Juventius again you punk and I'll fuck u to death LOCALS ONLY
>>9338025
Uranian poetry
John Addington Symonds' 'A Problem in Greek Ethics'