Also, what might "getting into" the writings of a pedophile entail? Is the lust for prepubescent youth contagious? Can't one think about things in the abstract without poisoning one's mind?
Bey (birth name Peter Lamborn Wilson) never writes explicitly about man/boy love in his political stuff, though I guess it'd be up to the interpreter to gauge how much his visions of insurrectionary anarchism might be undergirded by his "libidinal" desires. I'm sure 99.9% of the readers he has inspired over the years have not had or wanted to have anything to do with pedophilia, and there are plenty of people out there (gay men, in the stuff that I've read - and here, I like to think I'm broadening my horizons, to think more thoroughly beyond the initial horror-reflex when faced with the existence of pederasty/pedophilia) who openly acknowledge that pederastic relationships played into their formative experience *edit* in positive ways (!). Of course, this has not been my experience in life, so I can't speak much further than that. I can think about it, though, and I'm not worse for wear.
I guess I sympathize with the argument that someone might refuse to support a pedophile writer financially, on moral/ philosophical grounds, but then again, being that just about all of Bey's stuff is available on anarchist websites for free, idk.
Why is there something "wrong" with someone who reads the words a pederast has written? Just about everybody in Ancient Greece was doing it, and their writers have been revered as foundational to western culture for thousands of years now.
Everybody and their mother has a favorite true crime podcast, and we're all fascinated by account of serial killers. Why no knee-jerk revulsion there?
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