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students. Any kind of information was rare, even in the gay world.
After my work in several quite far off countries, I was able to do research in the Netherlands, in
its far more open climate, partly achieved by the Dutch NVSH, which had 40,000 members
those days. It was there that ped-emancipation started just after gay emancipation had its first
results. I still had to defend my work, and myself, emphasizing that it was research and not
propaganda.
After those days, there were many changes. More recently, much has changed again., but this
not a going back to the twenties: In those days there was far more isolation and much suicide.
A person with pedophilic feelings was simply a mad man then. Now, the situation is far more
complicated.
The future? I suppose and foresee further changes coming in waves. If the tide turns again,
publications written and preserved now will be usable in the future. So, publish, and carefully
save the files already written.
New research is very difficult to conduct now, because it’s nearly impossible to get honest
answers, and thus, to reach the truth.
It’s a moral problem, not a scientific one. Scientific data are known. Every honest person can
know now that harm is not always the outcome, only that it occurs in a few cases of incest and
severe violence. But the spirit of the age says: “OK, no harm – but it is still not done.”
Western and other cultures
One of the members has written to the meeting:
“I get the impression after being in a lot of places for good lengths of time that there are
considerably fewer non-white BL's than among whites. I've come across very few black
and Latin BL's. There is a handful in the chat groups but mostly from N. America.
Orientals are an interesting lot in that there is evidence of a significant number of
Japanese BL's but very few Chinese or Southeast Asian such as Thais and Vietnamese.
The more modern (western?) the society, the more BL's there seem to be.
In the Philippines, the boys talked about foreigner BL's but rarely if ever about
locals yet there were the movie theaters where the balcony was pretty much reserved
for male oriented ped and ephebe activity, situations which were stumbled on by
foreigners, not created by them.
Blacks as a group are more sexually active than non-blacks yet there appear to be so
few black BL's. I've known one and his interest was actually more ephebe than ped.
There are a couple on BoyChat. Those I've known who have been to Africa also didn't
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