The decision to write this book has its origin in a recent law in France, where I live, allowing gay marriage. Legally, I was suddenly worth any other guy in this wonderful land. I came down to earth pretty fast, though, due to the riots the law occasioned in Paris. There were also the rednecks on the quay where I have my boat (and where I'm writing this) who thought they and their sons were in dire danger the moment I ceased concealing my sexual orientation. I've never cared anything at all for American Marvel-Comics style superheroes for the simple reason that the world has been chockfull...
The decision to write this book has its origin in a recent law in France, where I live, allowing gay marriage. Legally, I was suddenly worth any other...
This is the fourth and last volume of a series on homosexuality. Volume One, The Ancient Greeks, was incredibly enjoyable because not only did all the Greeks practice boy-love, they vied with other writers and poets to show to what extent boy-love was beautiful. There was even a law in Thebes proclaiming ''that it is illegal for anyone to maintain that sex between men is not beautiful.'' In fact, it was so all-encompassing that one boy, who failed to succumb to the love of those of his sex, begged Zeus to change him so he wouldn't be different from others; when this failed to happen, he...
This is the fourth and last volume of a series on homosexuality. Volume One, The Ancient Greeks, was incredibly enjoyable because not only did all the...
The country on which our cultural heritage is built, Greece, was itself founded on an educational and philosophical platform that saw one generation being shown the way by a slightly older generation, men teachers and boy learners, of lovers and their beloveds, who formed a bond as inextricable as copper and tin melding into bronze, a fusion so flawless that no lover, no beloved, would ever contemplate disloyalty, from whence, at its finest, comes the true story of a captive soldier who, about to be put to death, made the final request that he be pierced through the chest and not the back,...
The country on which our cultural heritage is built, Greece, was itself founded on an educational and philosophical platform that saw one generation b...
What decided me to write this book were both the chiaro and the obscuro of Caravaggio's chiaroscuro. The chiaro: The eroticism found in certain paintings like The Musicians which show the boys' faces in the very throes of imminent orgasm, the eyes glazed over, the lips sensually parted, the tongue just visible and lascivious. Or the boys' shirts, in this and in other paintings, shirts at times undone to the waist, open on skin glistening through effort, perhaps sexual, the nipples erect, the underarms reeking of pheromones, the odor of sex so invasive that one can guess at the traces of sperm...
What decided me to write this book were both the chiaro and the obscuro of Caravaggio's chiaroscuro. The chiaro: The eroticism found in certain painti...
