MICHAEL MATTHEW KAYLOR (Ed.)LAD’S LOVE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF URANIAN POETRY AND PROSE [TWO VOLUME SET] These two volumes constitute the first substantial anthology of paederastic poetry and prose compiled since Men and Boys: An Anthology in 1924. It is a representative sampling of the diverse paederastic texts written by the English Uranians, ranging from William Johnson’s Ionica (1858) to Samuel Elsworth Cottam’s Cameos of Boyhood (1930). Forty-seven writers of Uranian poetry and prose have been included in the two volumes of this anthology, including, in this first volume: Stanley Addleshaw, James Leslie Barford, John Francis Bloxam, Edwin Emmanuel Bradford, Reginald Baliol Brett, Viscount Esher, Horatio Robert Forbes Brown, Sir Richard Francis Burton, Edward Carpenter, George Douglas Howard Cole, Samuel Elsworth Cottam, Edward Alexander “Aleister” Crowley, Digby Mackworth Dolben, Lord Alfred Douglas, E.M. Forster, Leonard Henry Green, Gerard Manley Hopkins, A.E. Housman, George Cecil Ives, Edmund John, Lionel Pigot Johnson, William Johnson, Edward Cracroft Lefroy and Sydney Frederick McIllree Lomer. 
The second volume contains prose and poetry by Edmund St. Gascoigne Mackie,
Hector Hugh Munro (“Saki”), A. Newman, John Gambril Francis Nicholson,
William Paine, Walter Pater, Mark André Raffalovich, Forrest Reid,
Frederick William Rolfe (“Baron Corvo”), Charles Edward Sayle, Charles
Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, Arnold William Smith, Simeon Solomon, Lord Henry
Richard Charles Somerset, Stanislaus Eric, Count Stenbock, John Moray Stuart-Young,
John Addington Symonds, Edward Perry Warren, Joseph William Gleeson White,
Oscar Wilde, Theodore Percival Cameron Wilson, George Edward Woodberry and
Cuthbert Wright.Despite a variety of approaches to the theme, the writers anthologized here have one thing in common: Boy-love was, for them, a profound passion. Illustrated. (pp CXI + 520) + ( pp 625), 99,95 |
ERWIN IN HET PANHUISAUFKLÄRUNG UND AUFREGUNG: 50 JAHRE SCHWULE UND LESBEN IN DER BRAVO Seit 1956 hat die BRAVO Generationen von Jugendlichen aufgeklärt. Homosexualität, zunächst tabu, wurde erst ab Mitte der 60er Jahre zum Thema - als krankhafte Abweichung vom Normalen und um die Jugend vor Verführung zu warnen. Ab 1969 kam mit Dr. Sommer die sexuelle Offenheit. Als dieser 1972 gleichgeschlechtliche Erlebnisse schilderte (u. a. seine eigenen), wurde die BRAVO auf den Index der jugendgefährdenden Schriften gesetzt und stand kurz vor dem Aus. Den Anstoß für einen der ersten Beiträge über Homosexualität und Musik boten Village People mit ihrem Hit Y.M.C.A. (1979). Mit Smalltown Boy wurde Jimmy Somerville 1984 zu einer wichtigen Galionsfigur der jungen Schwulenbewegung. Das große Schweigen war nun endgültig vorbei! Heute erinnert kaum noch etwas an den schwierigen Weg der schwul-lesbischen Emanzipation. Hat sich BRAVO hier große Verdienste erworben oder eher gebremst? Dieses Buch untersucht ca. 1.000 Beiträge, die seit einem halben Jahrhundert dazu erschienen sind. (pp 194), Gebundene Ausgabe, 37,50 |
CARL TOMSMICHAEL JACKSON’S DANGEROUS LIAISONS: ARVIZO, BARNES, BHATTI, CHANDLER, CULKIN... THE A-Z OF ALL THE KING’S BOYS A must-read for those who believe he truly loved children but are not so sure about his innocence... Michael Jackson spent the wedding night of his second marriage not with his bride but with his best man, an eight-year-old boy. His first marriage ended in divorce after he had been on holiday with two young boys without his wife. To kneejerk loyalists, the King of Pop’s love of children was innocent: end of story. For the more reflective among us, whether we are intrigued, baffled, appalled, empathic, or even all these things, Michael Jackson’s Dangerous Liaisons provides the definitive review of his numerous special friendships. Armed with insights from a range of disciplines (psychology, sociology, moral philosophy) Carl Toms spent many years researching the megastar’s boy-love. He delves deeply into the sources of Michael’s enigmatic identity, soul and genius while keeping a sceptical eye on the assumptions and values of the King’s detractors. Toms’ is the only book to examine thoroughly Michael’s trial on child abuse charges without losing sight of the increasingly well documented but surprisingly little known or understood facts about earlier allegations. It exposes the falsity of persistent efforts to whitewash the record by inventing for Michael a phoney “normal,” or plain “vanilla gay,” sexuality. The author probes Michael’s intense identification with Peter Pan, the eternal boy, acknowledging the profound significance of this attachment but discarding the welter of dated Freudian psychobabble it has spawned. Refusing to settle for the easy cliches about Michael’s “lost childhood,” Toms examines groundbreaking research into intimate man-boy contacts in order to illuminate the real nature of Michael’s “dangerous liaisons” and the surprising challenge they present to our moral certainties. “Shows that the only real ‘abuse’ of children that occurred was not from Michael’s bedroom horseplay, but parental manipulation of kids for financial gain. As such, this book gives us a profound cultural critique of received assumptions about childhood innocence, pedophilic ‘power,’ and parental goodwill. - Professor Thomas K Hubbard, University of Texas at Austin. (pp 624), paper, 34,95 |
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The Very Last Issue!
DESTROYER #10Karl Andersson, Destroyer’s editor, writes about this issue: “D10 doesn’t look like anything you’ve seen before - in Destroyer, that is. We’ve redesigned the whole magazine and even increased the font size. The biggest surprise is the page run: We’ve gone up from 52 to 68 pages! As for the content, we’ve dug up a number of ‘childhood heroes’ whom we want our readers to (re)discover. The most spectacular item is probably a ten page interview with Pierre Joubert, the French illustrator who created the aesthetics of Boy Scouting. It’s spectacular because monsieur Joubert died in 2002, but we were lucky to meet him before that. The interview in Destroyer has never been published before. And Will McBride is back! We visited the artist in his studio in Berlin. Together with him we picked out the best photos from his travels through Europe and Asia in the 60s and 70s. Some of these photos have never been published before. Finally we’ve talked to Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg, the grande dame of the German gay movement. Mrs. Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg became famous through her book on homophobia, Tabu Homosexualität, but she also wrote extensively on homosexual behaviour and pederasty in Melanesian tribes.” (pp 68), stapled, 12,00 |
P.E. RYANIN MIKE WE TRUST Fifteen-year-old Garth Rudd, more comfortable with his homosexuality than his 5' 2" stature, is grieving his father’s recent death. Forced to get a job, his understandably overprotective mother has asked him to temporarily keep his sexual orientation secret. When his father’s estranged twin appears for a summer visit, Garth’s trust is easily gained. Secretly Mike helps him navigate the unfamiliar waters of gay relationships by taking him to bookstores and facilitating dates with Adam, a school friend. Before long, Mike exploits Garth’s trust and encourages him to quit his job, lie to his mother, and secretly help him collect money for “charities” instead. Soon the scams become apparent and the teen realizes the truth about his uncle. Now the teen must face his friends and his mother. The author has created a story with a pace that does not falter and a resolution that is realistically achieved. Garth is an appealing character, filled with contradictions, vulnerable while seeking strength, honest with himself but surprised at how easily he is able to lie to others. The author’s use of language, at times brilliantly translucent, provides insightful dialogue. This contemporary coming-of-age story set in Richmond, Virginia, subtly and clearly provides a fresh perspective on teenage sexual identity by imbedding it into the context of the bigger issue of truth. (pp 321), hard cover, 19,95 |
JEAN-XAVIER DE COMBELOUPDU VÉSUVE À L’ATLAS: SUR LES TRACES DE VON GLOEDEN. POTRAITS ET NUS Jean-Xavier de Combeloup, the youngest son of a ruined provincial aristocratic family, started writing poems and drawing when he was still a child. At seventeen, having just graduated, he travelled to Italy and attended Academy lessons in the art schools of Florence and Rome, earning his living as a waiter and collecting all sorts of eccentric objects. As a teenager, he had already turned a section of the family castle’s attic into a “curiosity cabinet.” This included 42 albumine prints of Baron von Gloeden, inherited from his greatuncle. He was stunned by these photographs of young boys set naked in ancient ruins glowing in the sun, and they motivated his quest for an ideal pagan beauty in this still unspoilt Southern paradise. For his entire life he was to be influenced by this iconography, using a great number of vintage pictures by the baron or other photographers as models for his drawings, paintings and sculptures. Full color. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies. (pp 104), large format, paper, € 47,50 Click here for an extensive, fully illustrated description. |
EDWARD PERRY WARRENA DEFENCE OF URANIAN LOVE Edward Perry Warren’s three-volume A Defence of Uranian Love, written under his pseudonym Arthur Lyon Raile and privately printed in 1928-1930, can be judiciously labelled “the premier paederastic apologia in the language.” Warren always and rightly called this work his magnum opus: it is the clearest elucidation of the motives that lay behind his acquisition of Graeco-Roman antiquities for the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and other prominent collections. Warren’s acquisition practices converted those antiquities into a “paederastic evangel,” as he himself declares, and his Defence is intimately woven into this lifelong, evangelistic mission. “My verses and my prose,” writes Warren, “advocate a morality, but it is not the current morality in certain matters.” This is understatement at its most playful, for Warren’s Defence is a detailed map to a Utopia where “Grecian grandeur” is restored, and the “Christian sublime,” all but banished; where masculine virtues topple the feminine that have mistakenly led to democracy, sexual purity, and feminism; where aristocracy, nobleness, and male supremacy establish a civilisation in which Nietzsche would have found himself at home; and where paederasty, in the form familiar to the ancient Spartans, could and needs must flourish. For, according to Warren, “Love” (in this case, Boy-love) “can revive the old Hellenic day.” It is this revival - this veritable “Renaissance of Paederasty” - that Warren’s elaborate apologia aims to begin, by reminding Western culture of what it has lost or only forgotten: a sacral Boy-love and its accompanying traditions. Edited and with an extensive introduction by Michael Matthew Kaylor. Foreword by William Armstrong Percy III. (pp CXXXII + 336), hard cover, 49,95 |
DAVID BAINBRIDGETEENAGERS: A NATURAL HISTORY During the second decade of human life, the body and brain undergo a profound and complex transformation, with emotions and intellect changing as rapidly and unpredictably as weight and height. These changes can be baffling - to teenagers and to those around them alike - but adolescence plays an important evolutionary role in who we become as adults and there are hard scientific facts behind the spots, the smells, and the sexual experimentation, as well as the existential angst, the anger, and the irresistible attraction to all the things that are bad for you. In clear, engaging and amiable prose, David Bainbridge explains the strange and wonderful science of the teenage years. Teenagers offers a fresh and encouraging perspective on a difficult and embarrassing, yet vitally important, stage in the human life cycle. This is illuminating exploration of adolescence; think David Attenborough writing about teenagers rather than animals. David Bainbridge was trained in veterinary surgery and zoology at Cambridge University, where he now teaches Clinical Veterinary Anatomy. (pp 304), paper, 22,95 |
SARAH B. GOODEUNDERSTANDING AND ADDRESSING ADULT SEXUAL ATTRACTION TO CHILDREN This ground-breaking book demystifies the field of adult sexual attraction to children, countering the emotionality surrounding the topic of paedophilia in the popular media by careful presentation of research data and interview material. Understanding and Addressing Adult Sexual Attraction to Children bridges the gulf in understanding between those who want to protect children and those who feel sexual attraction to children - and recognises that they are sometimes the same people. Sarah D. Goode provides an overview of the topic by defining the term “paedophile” and discussing how many adults there may be in the general population who find themselves sexually attracted to children. She looks at how the Internet has acted as an enabler, with an explosion of child pornography and “pro-paedophile” websites. Drawing on data from a sample of fifty-six self-defined paedophiles living in the community, she explores themes including self-identity, the place of fantasy and the forms of support available to paedophiles. Her research highlights the scale of debate within the “online paedophile community” about issues such as the morality of sexual contact with children and encouragement to maintain a law-abiding lifestyle. Throughout, she draws careful distinctions between sexual attraction to children and sexual contact with children. The book concludes with a valuable discussion on how adult sexual contact harms children and examples of a range of initiatives which work to protect children and prevent offending. Understanding and Addressing Adult Sexual Attraction to Children is a well-researched, well-written, courageous, progressive and roundly excellent piece of work which enables the reader to cut through the tabloid mess surrounding paedophilia and get to the reality of the experience of living with a sexual attraction to children. Considering how thoroughly they have been demonised by our society, one is struck by the humanity of those interviewed. (pp 221), paper, 49,95 |
DESTROYER #9Karl Andersson, Destroyer’s editor, writes about this issue: “I’m immensely proud to announce Destroyer 09. Why? Because of Nicola, a Swedish amateur photographer who took loads and loads of photos of beautiful boys in Naples in the 1970s. Some of them were published in the gay magazines of the time, but most of them were simply buried in Nicola’s drawers. Until now. In a 22-page double feature, we publish the best of his photos in colour and black and white, along with an interview with Nicola himself, where he talks about the uniqueness of Naples and how it all suddenly changed for the worse in the 1980s. D9 is the hottest issue of Destroyer since D2, which featured a 10-page interview with Cosidetto and was sold out only weeks after release. 1000 copies of D2 were printed (D9 has a print run of 2000). However, be warned that they might go very quickly.” (pp 52), stapled, 10,00 |
JAY EDSONMARCUS AND ME When Franklin Hubbard runs away from the Lutheran boys’ home where he has lived for most of his eleven years, he hitches a ride from Marcus, a midde-aged man he quickly decides is both a “loony” and a “criminal.” But Franklin’s definitions come from his influences - the state, the church, and the popular news media that have formed his comic book good-and-evil world view. What follows in that hippie heyday summer of 1967 is more than just a journey from coast to coast across America. For young Franklin it is a journey from an America he knows to one he has never imagined. Marcus and Me speaks with the blunt honesty of Franklin’s own voice as he struggles to understand opposing ways to live... one based on the solid but simplistic values that have dominated his short life, the other offering him an exhilarating freedom that questions everything he has grown up to believe. It’s the summer of ’67, yet every breath of Franklin’s story has clear resonance with the America of today. It is about freedom and personal responsibility versus control and unthinking acceptance. (pp 108), paper, 17,95 |
ANDREW O'HAGANBE NEAR ME David Anderton is a Catholic priest with a small parish in Scotland, who experiences difficulties in establishing closer relations with the local population. However, he is charmed by fifteen-year-old Mark and his girlfriend Lisa, rebellious local teenagers who live in a world he barely understands. He joins them on visitis to the city, takes them on a boating trip to a small island off the coast and when he takes Mark home after a long, watched through night to listen to music, he presses a kiss on the lad's mouth - just at the moment his housekeeper enters the room. His fascination with the boy founders him. But actually he has foundered much earlier. Before he describes the disastrous consequences of the kiss, the author returns to Anderton's college days. In the 1960s in Oxford he was part of a group of aesthetes who looked down on politically active students. But he fell in love with Conor, one of those activists. Their relationship has hardly begun when Conor dies in a traffic accident. In a way this also ends David's life. "My life will pass and I will never taste a kiss on my mouth again," he says in his mind. That is, until he meets Mark. (pp 306), paper, 15,95 |
SHAWN STEWART RUFFFINLATER Finlater is a tender love story which takes place in the projects area of Cincinnati known as Findlater. The main character and narrator of this tale is Cliffy Douglas, an African American 13-year-old lad who has just entered the eighth grade. Cliffy's home life is rocky - his brothers are raucous, early sexually developed (and active) trouble makers and his mother labors to feed her family. His father has recently returned home and doesn't do much aside from drinking and lounging around the house. Life is not wholesome, but Cliffy's devotion to his mother holds him together. As Cliffy begins his school year he is seated by a young Jewish lad, Noah Baumgarten, and as the story unwinds we discover the differences and similarities between these two new friends. The spectrum in which each lives covers the racial tension in the neighborhoods as the bonded pair are referred to as Oreos, or more maliciously as "Nigger" and "Jew." It is the disparity of home life and background that makes each boy envy the status of the other - Cliffy wants to become a Jew and have a caring father and mother like Noah's and Noah longs to be a Soul Brother. Together they explore the limits of their environment of discord as well as the territory of their developing bodies and sexuality. Cliffy and Noah plan an escape from the puzzling quagmire of family developments, an escape that will allow them to live their young passionate love life without the gloom of their pasts. But can they find that path? Finlater explores same sex attraction in boys as they enter puberty and Shawn Stewart Ruff writes with such restraint and eloquence that his characters never lose balance on the tight wire of racial, social, and color tensions they tread. (pp 296), paper, 17,50 |
ANDREW LEAR & EVA CANTARELLAIMAGES OF ANCIENT GREEK PEDERASTY: BOYS WERE THEIR GODS Greek pederasty, or paiderastia - the social custom of erotic relations between adult men and adolescent boys - was a central characteristic of Greek culture. Both Greeks and non-Greeks saw it, along with the gymnasium with its intimate connection to pederasty, as markers of Greek identity. It is an important theme in Greek literature, from poetry to comedy to philosophy, and in Greek art as well. In Athenian vase-painting - in particular the painted scenes that decorate clay drinking vessels produced in Athens between the 6th and the 4th centuries BC - pederasty is a major theme: indeed, pederastic courtship is one of the mortal activities most commonly depicted. 
This lavishly illustrated book brings together, for the first time, all of the different ways in which vase-painting portrays or refers to pederasty, from scenes of courtship, foreplay, and sex, to scenes of Zeus with his boy-love Ganymede, to painted inscriptions praising the beauty of boys. 
This book shows how painters used the language of
vase-painting - what we call "iconography" - to cast pederasty
in an idealizing light, portraying it as part of a world in
which beautiful elite males display praiseworthy attitudes, such
as moderation, and engage in approved activities, such as hunting,
athletics, and the symposium. The book also incorporates a comprehensive
catalogue of relevant vase-paintings, compiled by noted archaeologist
Keith DeVries. It is the most comprehensive treatment available of
an institution that has few modern parallels. Illustrated with
111 black and white photographs. (pp 272), hard cover, 92,50 |
HOWARD O. STURGISTIM Tim (1891), die schlichte, aber psychologisch äußerst feine und im guten Sinne rührende Erzählung der leidenschaftlichen Zuneigung eines Knaben, Tim, zu seinem Jugendfreund Carol, beginnt in heiter-unbeschwertem Ton, wird aber rasch zu einer Geschichte um Liebe und Tod. Tim ist eher eine Meditation als ein Roman über Eton. Der Held, ein zarter, empfindsamer, schmächtiger Junge, verliebt sich in einem Freund, der vier Jahre älter ist als er. Beide Jungen gehen nach Eton - Sturgis stand ganz im Banne seiner alten Schule. Tim is gut getroffen, aber Carol ist eher ein Wunschbild als ein lebendiger Junge, zu sehr in Blau, Gold und Rosa gemalt, um lebensecht zu sein. Interessanter als die Beziehung der beiden Hauptpersonen ist die Reaktion der anderen Personen auf diese Beziehung, ihre Gereiztheit und Eifersucht auf ein Gefühl, die sie nicht teilen, nicht beeinflussen und nicht verstehen können. “Obgleich völlig rein und ideal gehalten, tritt doch der homosexuelle Charakter der geschilderten Gefühle deutlich hervor” [Numa Praetorius (1900)]. Anhang: George Santayana über Howard O. Sturgis. Mit einem Nachwort von Wolfram Setz. (pp 220), paper, 18,95 |
ACHILLE ESSEBACDÉDÉ Ein "Schauer von Schönheit und Traurigkeit" weht durch diesen Roman, die wehmütige Schilderung einer Liebe unter Internatsschülern. Der inzwischen erwachsene Marcel erinnert sich an seine Freundschaft und Liebe zu dem schönen Italiener Andrea (Dédé), der schon mit 15 Jahren sterben musste. "Zartheit und Feinheit der Empfindung", so ein zeitgenössischer Rezensent, sind in diesem Roman mit "poetischem Schwung" in Worte gefasst. In seinem Nachwort zu dieser Neuausgabe zeichnet Jean-Claude Féray erstmals die Biographie des Autors Achille Essebac (Anagramm von Achille Becasse, 1868-1936) und würdigt den Roman als Prototyp einer Reihe von Beschreibungen "heimlicher Freundschaften". Die Zeichnungen von Georges Bigot stammen aus einer illustrierten Ausgabe von 1903. Schon 1902 auf Deutsch erschienen, hat Dédé in Deutschland eine ganz besondere Wirkung erzielt: Jeder ältere Gymnasiast habe seinen Dédé gehabt, erinnerte sich Hans Blüher; mancher dankte mit einem Gedicht dem "Sänger des Dédé" ("Nimm unseren Dank, o Sänger, für Dein Lied / Vom schönen Knaben..."). (pp 256), paper, 19,95 |
JEFFERY P. DENNISQUEERING TEEN CULTURE. ALL-AMERICAN BOYS AND SAME-SEX DESIRE IN FILM AND TELEVISION Why did Fonzie hang around with all those high school boys? Is the overwhelming boy-meets-girl content of popular teen movies, music, books, and TV just a cover for an undercurrent of same-sex desire? From the 1950s to the present, popular culture has involved teenage boys falling for, longing over, dreaming about, singing to, and fighting over, teenage girls. But Queering Teen Culture analyzes more than 200 movies and TV shows to uncover who Frankie Avalon’s character was really in love with in those beach movies and why Leif Garrett became a teen idol in the 1970s. In Top 40 songs, teen magazines, movies, TV soap operas and sitcoms, teenagers are defined by their pubescent "discovery" of the opposite sex, universally and without exception. Queering Teen Culture looks beyond the litany to find out when adults became so insistent about teenage sexual desire – and why – and finds evidence of same-sex desire, romantic interactions, and identities that, according to the dominant ideology, do not and cannot exist. Queering Teen Culture is a wonderfully readable book that will forever change how we view the staples of teenage boy imagery in popular culture. (pp 224), paper, 34,95 |
SIDNEY SMITHHANDFUL OF ANGELS A beautiful book devoted to the drawings of boy-angels by Sidney Smith, known for his early involvement in NAMBLA. Most of Smith's work was published in very limited editions, and this book presents for the first time a retrospective of his work for a large readership. Introduced by Donald H. Mader. (pp 64), paper, large format, 22,45 |
KOINOS #66The magazine Koinos intends to capture in words and pictures the beauty of boys from the beginning of their puberty until they become adults, and seeks to articulate what makes them special and valuable to others, with all they outwardly manifest and inwardly possess. Koinos intends to argue in a nuanced manner for a society in which boys in this phase of their lives are valued, and in which they can have the possibility of experiencing intimate relationships and sexual contacts with other persons, includuing adults, on the basis of mutual respect. Koinos appears four times a year and is published in both English and German. Every issue includes several in-depth articles and a photographic portfolio with works by photographers such as Palestra, Alexander Krivon, and others. If you order Koinos we will send you the latest available issue. Subscription rates upon request. (pp 28), 12,95 |
DESTROYER #8Destroyer magazine celebrates the beauty of the male adolescent. The premier issue was released in May 2006 and the magazine is now published quarterly. Destroyer contains reportages, photos, essays, interviews, reviews, cultural articles and controversial columns by well-known public figures. Destroyer occasionally contains nudity, usually from photo books available in regular bookshops. The graphic style of Destroyer is intentionally "superficial". By making the covers resemble traditional men's magazines, editor and publisher Karl Andersson puts the teenage boy in a context usually reserved for sexy women. The implications of objectifying a man instead of a woman have been discussed by Andersson in various interviews. Full color. (pp 52), stapled, 10,00 |
WILL MCBRIDECOMING OF AGE: PHOTOGRAPHS Children's emotional lives are hidden to most. They give up their identities only to those with a talent for being; for living with sincerety, for welcoming each moment, for listening. Will McBride is one of those talented photographers - his collaboration with the subjects of his work, with the young boys he has befriended, has resulted in one of the great extended photographic portraits of male adolescence. McBride has spent forty years seeking out children in the transition to adulthood, photographing privileged high school students, boys scratching out their lives on the gritty streets of Frankfurt, a fifteen-year-old Spanish bullfighter, and a modern Siddhartha story in India. In McBride's work, the child's joy and sense of self is in tension with the strictures of the adult world and with his own evolving sensuality. The boys in McBride's pictures fall in love, seek comfort, display their bravado, suffer deeply, and play with unfettered energy. Although born into a world of conflicting messages and expectations, the young men coming of age in McBride's photographs are at ease in their bodies and free of spirit. Introduction by Guy Davenport. (pp 112), hard cover, 44,95 |
SARAH SCHULMANTHE CHILD The Child is an absorbing novel about a teenager convicted of murder after seeing his online lover charged with pedophilia. Structured like a classic novel of legal suspense, The Child explores what happens when Stew, a lonely fifteen-year-old boy, looks for and finds an adult boyfriend online. In short order his lover is arrested in an Internet pedophilia sting and Stew's world is turned upside down. He's exposed to his family and community, leaving the outcast to fend for himself against forces intent on his destruction. Desperate and enraged, the confused Stew murders his nephew in a panic. Schulman's novel considers the impact of these events on all those involved - from the parents of the murdered child, to Stew's staunchly Catholic parents, and the attorneys working on his case. Carefully untangling the actions of an isolated teenager denied a natural outlet for his feelings during a critical time in his life, The Child is a haunting meditation on isolation and the prejudices of culture and family. (pp 232), paper, 19,95 |
JAMES HANLEYBOY Acclaimed by luminaries such as William Faulkner and EM Forster, suppressed for more than fifty years by a prosecution for obscenity, James Hanley's 1930s classic charts the short and brutish life of a boy forced out of school and into the unforgiving world of work. Escape - in the form of stowing away on a ship - only deepens his exposure to the squalor and brutality that men are capable of, and when he arrives in Alexandria he learns there are some things that one can't run away from. Narrated in unflinching language that is both visceral and acute in its observational power, Boy is a shocking book that stays in the mind long after it is read. Unfairly neglected during his lifetime, only recently has this original, uncompromising novelist started to be reappraised as among the finest novelists writing in English in the twentieth century. (pp 230), paper, 16,95 |
JOHN BRIDCUTBRITTEN'S CHILDREN Britten's Children is a tender and balanced account of Benjamin Britten's obsessional, yet strangely innocent relationships with adolescent boys. One of the hallmarks of his music is the use of boys' voices, and John Bridcut uses this to create a fresh prism through which to view the composer's life. Interweaving discussion of the music he wrote for and about children with interviews with the boys whom Britten befriended, Bridcut explores the influence of these unique friendships - notably with the late David Hemmings - and how they helped Britten maintain links with his own happy childhood. In a remarkable part of the book, Bridcut tells for the first time the full story of Britten's love affair in the 1930s with the 18-year-old German Wulff Scherchen, son of the conductor Hermann Scherchen. As Paul Hoggart of The Times commented, "this type of love belonged to an emotional landscape that has vanished for ever, and we are the poorer for it." Since first making a film about this sbject, the author has extended his research to include friendships Britten had with children which have not previously been documented. (pp 334), hard cover, 32,95 |
STEPHANIE NEWELLTHE FORGER'S TALE. THE SEARCH FOR ODEZIAKU Between 1905 and 1939 a conspicuously tall white man with a shock of red hair, dressed in a silk shirt and white linen trousers, could be seen on the streets of Onitsha, in Eastern Nigeria. How was it possible for an unconventional, boy-loving Englishman to gain a social status among the local populace enjoyed by few other Europeans in colonial West Africa? In The Forger’s Tale: The Search for Odeziaku Stephanie Newell charts the story of the English novelist and poet John Moray Stuart-Young (1881-1939) as he traveled from the slums of Manchester to West Africa in order to escape the homophobic prejudices of late-Victorian society. Leaving behind a criminal record for forgery and embezzlement and his notoriety as a “spirit rapper,” Stuart-Young found a new identity as a wealthy palm oil trader and a celebrated author, known to Nigerians as “Odeziaku.” In this fascinating biographical account, Newell draws on queer theory, African gender debates, and “new imperial history” to open up a wider study of imperialism, (homo)sexuality, and non-elite culture between the 1880s and the late 1930s. The Forger’s Tale pays close attention to different forms of West African cultural production in the colonial period and to public debates about sexuality and ethics, as well as to movements in mainstream English literature. (pp 272), paper, 32,50 |
J.H.THESE WERE MY REALITIES: JOURNAL OF AN INCARCERATED SEX OFFENDER The detailed descriptions that the author provides of his day-to-day experiences as a convicted sex offender in an American prison and his interactions with other prisoners are based on notes taken while these were his realities. Presented without either self-justification or self-dramatization, like any accurate portrayal of an extreme situation this account will shatter your stereotypes. In the further reflections on these realities scattered throughout the book, and particularly the short essays in the final section, the author attempts to formulate some principles that may prove useful for interpreting not only a prison experience, but all the institutions of what he perceives to be an increasingly prison-like society for those whose sexuality is criminalized and demonized. (pp 322), paper, 22,50 |
J.H.THIS TOO IS LOVE For all the current preoccupation with "pedophiles," it is curious how little interest there seems to be with regard to what one is actually like. Though the work is fiction, This Too Is Love draws its inspiration from the experiences of a real person as he attempts to deal with a highly demonized social identity. Each of the twelve stories that comprise the book is complete in itself, but the stories share a common protagonist and can be seen as a series of snapshots taken at various points in his life. During much of his life the central character worked as a psychotherapist, and some of the stories take place within this context. The stories are quite different stylistically, and focus on different aspects of his experience. They are intended neither to condone nor to condemn, but rather to understand. They ask the question: What is it like to be such a man? (pp 265), paper, 22,50 |
DAVID L. RIEGELWE WERE NOT ABUSED! In 1981, Larry Constantine described the area of the sexuality of children on our psychological maps as bearing only the legend "Here there be dragons." Now, over a quarter century later, little real progress has been made in replacing those fictional dragons with factual truth. Indeed, new and more ferocious dragons have been conjured up and nurtured by the advocates of victimology and the practitioners of the "child abuse industry." This book unapologetically aims the lance of truth at the heart of those dragons. This is a battle to the death, for unless these dragons are slain, they will continue to consume our children and those who love and understand those children to a degree that most cannot - and will not - comprehend. Inquisitive and explorative boys are portrayed as being universally harmed by any sexual contacts with older males, but the truth has been known and documented for decades that the real harm to these boys comes not from their willing sexual experimentations, but from society's "taboos" and inappropriate overreactions of parents, teachers, police, and judges. (pp 92), paper, 17,95 |
DAVID L. RIEGELBEYOND HYSTERIA. BOY EROTICA ON THE INTERNET This book is a direct challenge to a climate of hysteria that is intended to suppress and denigrate any serious inquiries into what is commonly called "child pornography." It is not the intent of this volume to try to deal with the entire unmanageable hodgepodge of this issue, but rather to isolate and examine one well-defined segment, "boy erotica." The author wants to go beyond hysteria and conduct a rational discussion, based on empirical data, of viewing by males of images and written descriptions of boy nudity and sexuality, and of the making of those images. (pp 84), paper, 17,95 |
DAVID L. RIEGELCOULD THEY ALL HAVE BEEN WRONG? Thoughts by physicians, philosophers, psychologists, professors, a judge, an attorney, and a hacker about sexually expressed relationships between boys and older males. Most of the authors presented in this book in an excerpted format speak of the harmlessness and even benefits of many of the consensual relationships between boys and older men, while others speak of the need to reexamine commonly held but unsupported negative beliefs by conducting new and extensive unbiased investigations. (pp 104), paper, 17,95 |
MARTIJN VAN DE GRIENDTHASSAN & HOESSEIN In April 2005 the Dutch Moroccan twin brothers Hassan and Hoessein celebrated their tenth birthday. On this occassion this full color photo book was published, which documents their lives during the last few years. Their former neighbor, photographer Martijn van de Griendt, captured the boys at home, playing on the street, at school, and during their holidays in Morocco. Apart from the photographs and texts (in Dutch) by Van de Griendt, this volume also contains drawings and texts from Hoessein's diary. (pp 160), hard cover, large format, 50,00 |
DARWIN PORTERJACKO, HIS RISE AND FALL. THE SOCIAL & SEXUAL HISTORY OF MICHAEL JACKSON You'd have thought that there wasn't one single gossipy rock yet to be overturned in the microscopically scrutinized life of Michael Jackson. But Darwin Porter's exhaustive (but always zippy) hybrid of celebrity bio and solid reporting proves the opposite. It's all here: The abuse Jackson suffered as a boy from the fists of his father; rough early years on the chitlin' circuit; his rocky relationship with Diana Ross and his quirky relationship with Liz Taylor; his sham marriages and his oddly conceived three children; unflagging rumors of his homosexuality; and his scandalous affection for generations of adolescent boys. No other Jackson biography has ever answered these questions: Why Michael attempted to buy the bones of Marilyn Monroe, and what he planned to do with them. Why did Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis - Michael's editor on Moonwalk - suddenly dump him? Did Michael have an affair with Princess Di, and did he attempt to become a "special friend" of Prince William? How far did Michael go, and how many millions were paid, to squelch lawsuits from the parents of underaged boys? Is Michael Jackson really a pedophile - "a monstruous freak who abuses young boys" - or an innocent victim of his own wealth and fame? This book answers these questions and many more. (pp 576), hard cover, 29,95 |
JOHN BANCROFT (Ed.)SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDHOOD [THE KINSEY INSTITUTE SERIES, VOL. 7] Discussion of childhood sexuality is usually met with either indifference or panic in our culture, and the topic remains submerged within political and moral debates that have historically impeded its understanding. In contrast, Sexual Development in Childhood brings together respected researchers and clinicians to assess the current state of knowledge about childhood sexuality. The result is a comprehensive presentation of the latest research that is rational, balanced, and thorough. The wide-ranging essays in Sexual Development in Childhood seek collectively to answer many of the most vital questions in the field of childhood development. What is childhood sexuality, and why should it be studied? How should it be measured, and what research methods are most useful? What are the current empirical results of research, and in what direction do these studies intend to go in the future? The essays offered in answer to these questions propose to help us understand both the normal range of sexual development in children and the consequences of abusive sexual experiences - objectives that should make this volume an essential resource for teachers, advocates, and sexual policy professionals as well as for researchers and clinicians. (pp 484), hard cover, 77,95 |
KHALED HOSSEINITHE KITE RUNNER Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to gain the approval of his father and resolves to win the local kite-fighting tournament, to prove that he has the makings of a man. His loyal friend Hassan promises to help him - for he always helps Amir - but this is 1970s Afghanistan and Hassan is merely a low-caste servant who is jeered at in the street, although Amir feels jealous of his natural courage and the place he holds in his father's heart. But neither of the boys could foresee what would happen to Hassan on the afternoon of the tournament, which was to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return, to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption. (pp 324), paper, 15,95 |
JULIAN GREEN
THE OTHER SLEEP Standing on the parapet of a bridge, in the heart of Paris, a little boy is afraid; his cousin Claude is holding him by the ankles above the murky waters of the Seine. This scene will become a backdrop to his subsequent memories as a young man of a childhood marked by sadness. The apartment in which he lives, his dreams and his yearnings, his friendship with his cousin, who sees everything through cruel eyes: everything is tinged with a haunting melancholy. Within Denis, the protagonist, a constant struggle is taking place between the sheer wild joy of being alive and the despondancy of existence; the suffering brought about by the sexual deprivation that he imposes on himself, and the certainty that the pleasures of the flesh await him. And it is in Paris, a Paris exquisitely etched that his unspoken passion for Claude gradually unfolds. (pp 128), paper, 19,95 |
GÜNTER HÖFT SPORTSFREUNDE In the course of many years the youth and sport photographer Günter Höft took an impressive number of photos of boys between the ages of six and sixteen in their leisure time and during sporting activities. Expressive portraits, determined young wrestlers during a competition, concentrated youngsters during contact sports and kids with an exuberant zest for life during leisure time are depicted in an inspired assortment of photos, some in full color. No nudity. (pp 112), hard cover, 43,00 |
PAUL ARTHO ERINNERUNGEN. JUNGEN ZWISCHEN 10 UND 16 In his photos Artho wants to convey what it is to be "between big and little": the growing up of young people, no longer children and not yet counted as grown-ups - and accordingly not being taken seriously. He was amazed how the boys were able to demonstrate their broad personalities and individualities in the photos in a free-spirited manner and full of personality. No nudity. 74 black and white pages and 32 full color pages. (pp 112), hard cover, 45,00 |
LOTHAR SAUER JUNGENZEIT. FOTOS 1958-1986 This is the third volume dedicated to the work of this prominent photographer of youth. His photos, mainly dedicated to boys in brotherhoods and groups, have graced many publications. Whether in sport or Indian games, Sauer was there with his camera and captured the diversity of life in camp and on the road. Expressive portraits and enthusiastic photographs are proof of his skill. This book is a must for anyone who loves the younger generation. Jungenzeit contains 74 black & white pictures. No nudity. (pp 76), hard cover, 42,90 |
LOTHAR SAUER
JUNGENLEBEN FOTOS 1957-1985 A collection by Lothar Sauer of charming period photographs of boys involved in sports, games and boy scout activities. No nudity. (pp 76) hard cover, 42,90
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HEIMLICHE FREUNDSCHAFTEN In Saint-Claude, einem katholischen Knabeninternat, herrscht eine strenge Schulordnung und religiöse Disziplin, die von zwielichtigen und unberechenbare Patres überwacht wird. Als George und Alexander, zwei strahlende und leidenschaftliche Jungen, sämtliche Vorschriften trotzen und sich näherkommen, löst das einen Sturm der Entrüstung aus und es wird beschlossen, daß die beiden voneinander getrennt werden müssen. Die dramatischen Folgen aber sieht niemand voraus... (pp 320), paper, 12,95 |
DRIES VAN WALLENBURG
ALBERT Uit het voorwoord van de auteur: "Dit boek heeft ten doel U, lezer, te vertellen hoe een pedofiele mens leeft en denkt en voelt en liefheeft. Van de angst voor de gevolgen van zijn liefde voor jongens [...] wil het vertellen en van de pijn wanneer het vriendje hem ontgroeit... Het wil de aandacht er op vestigen dat een kind geen a-sexueel wezen is en dat de Wet, die stringente bepalingen aanlegt inzake de leeftijd waarop sex-verkeer geoorloofd is, hiertoe niet in staat en niet bevoegd is. [...] Deze Wet dwingt thans grote groepen van onze bevolking d.w.z. alle pedofiel gerichte mensen én alle jonge mensen onder de 16 jaar, te leven zonder sex, in elk geval geen sex te bedrijven met een ander, óf de Wet te overtreden. Anno 1974 en met de huidige inzichten is een dergelijke Wet geen zedenwet meer, maar een onzedelijke wet." Tweede, gestencilde druk uit 1981 van deze oorspronkelijk in 1972 verschenen roman. (pp 62), paper, groot formaat, 19,95 |