Also when I was 15 a female friend dated a 20 something, he hung around with us and bought our booze for us on a Friday night. But such girls were from council estates (equivalent to the projects in the US I think), so they were common sluts, why bother with them. So in less reputable clubs you might have even a 14 yr old girl done up to the nines who might end up sleeping with an adult male. I was able to get into a nightclub when I was 16 because I was with a group of 15 yr olds, the doorman would turn a blind eye. And I didn't know any better.Īlso over here in those days intergenerational sex between adolescents and adults was rife. There would have been no possible help for me. In short, the boy engaging in sex with men was a pervert, not a victim over here. There were charges of soliciting, outraging public decency, and there is even a law for sex in public toilets but I forget how it is worded. When I was a kid and doing the things I was doing not only was it not seen as sexual abuse, but if caught I stood to be criminalized. Posts: 173 Joined: Tue 2:21 pm Local time: Mon 12:54 am Blog: View Blog (0) It looks like after homosexuality was legalized the whole police-state apparatus, the media and social hysteria and tropes, the extreme sentences, and the life-long sex-offender registry were simply rolled-over for a new target: from homosexuals to pedophiles. I was also surprised to read that back in those days there was already a sex offender registry for life, which John (Jim in the story) narrowly avoids landing on when he is caught in a park one night. One element of the story that really surprised me was the extreme sentences being handed out by US judges for homosexual activity at that time, ten years or more.
Reading this I thought about you as the story is of a young hustler and describes in detail three days and three nights there is considerable musing about age related topics like the life of young hustlers on the streets, the future of ex-young hustlers, what happens when a homosexual gets older, andthe problem of police and sex offender registry. Rechy is one of the fathers of queer fiction, his best known works are the novels Numbers and City of Night.
Hi James, I'm just about through this book, The Sexual Outlaw written by John Rechy.
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