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find any local BL's.
I've been of the opinion for some time that ped orientation has primarily if not
entirely genetic roots. Could there be cultural situations that are part of the reason one
becomes a ped or no? Is Daryl Bem's “exotic makes erotic” theory applicable here? Are
male oriented peds that different from female oriented peds?
Do any of you have any knowledge or thoughts about this?”
The meeting has discussed this.
Child lovers are everywhere in the world, but not all are active on the forums. Forums are the
domain of the western people with computers and knowledge of the English language. For
example, the nambla membership is mostly white and well educated – and male. Moreover, it
the western culture that divides people in ‘pigeonholes’ as sexual categories. If other cultures
make pigeonholes anyway, they make other ones. Furthermore, information on this matter is
largely informal and not public. In fact, we don’t know. We have the research of Margaret
Mead about Samoa, but it is claimed that the Samoans gave socially desired answers, such as
‘No, there is no criminality here’.
In the Far East, homosexuality and pedosexuality are common phenomena, but there one does
not speak about it in those cultures. For the native people, it is taboo; western tourists have
more freedom than the native people. Ethnic and indigenous communities keep their
information to themselves; tourists can only look from the outside. In the western world, ethnic
communities do the same – for example, the Chassidic Jews in London, the Nordic community
in Athens, the Arabic communities in Germany, and the large Spanish speaking communities in
the Americas.
These communities also have a kind of solidarity that closes the door to western police
investigators or to researchers. By studying their languages one can learn the ways people give
names to phenomena and the way they interpret them. For example, from even a basic
knowledge of Arabic, it is possible to learn that the individual and society, men and women,
boys and girls, and the relationships between them are regarded in a completely different way.
“I am living in the Far East. As a researcher, I have concluded that western ways of thinking do
not work there. The indigenous communities have their own way of interpreting phenomena
like intergenerational relationships – a less problematic way. But if a western person, a tourist
or researcher, knocks at their door, the door opens no further than ajar. They also have their
own, often for us difficult, languages to give names. For example, intimate contacts between
men are not seen nor described there as “homosexual’, a term referring to an identity. There are
a lot of boy-lovers there, but they are not named with western terms like ‘pedophiles’ as an
identity. They have quite different concepts, words and ways of thinking. So, the concept of
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