Greek Love Through the Ages
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History
General
Introduction to general issues
Pederasty - Bruce Rind (pdf)
The Earliest Pederast by Rossman
Hebephilia - Bruce Rind (pdf)
Socratic Love by Voltaire, 1764
Paederasty by Jmy. Bentham, 1785
Pederasty by Sir Ric. Burton, 1886
Purdah on Boys - Michael Davidson
Tradtional Sea-Bathing, 1882
Boys for Sale - Drew & Drake, 1969
The Future of Boy Prostitution, 1969
Afterthoughts on Boys for Sale, 1969
Sexual Experience between Men and Boys by Rossman
Introduction
Dimensions of a Complex Problem
Introduction
How Many Pederasts Are There?
Expanding the Definition Process
A Continuum of Behavior Types
Substitute Pederasty
Paiderastia: The Tutor in Sex
The Sports Comrade
The Adventurer
Sensuous Pederasty: The Sport of Kings
Viciously Exploitive Pederasty
Fantasy and Fetish Pederasty
Concluding Observations
Rings, Subcultures and the Underground
Why Do They?
Introduction
Genetic Basis for Pederasty?
Physiological Basis of Pederasty
Oral/Anal Fixation
Fixation at Early Adolescence
Socially Produced Neurosis
Seduction by Other Boys
Fantasy Interpretation of Experience: Self-seduction
The Seductive Lure of New Experience
The Lure of Affection
Lure of Erotic Pleasure
Negative Motivation: Who Cares?
Criminal Motivation: Rage
Some Concluding Observations
The Uses of History
Introduction
Pederasty in the Non-Christian World
Pederasty à la Mode
The Western Underground
Some Concluding Observations
The Impact of Other Cultures - Introduction
The Impact of Other Cultures - Conclusions
The Response to Community Censure
Impact of Conscience: Morals and Religion by Rossman
Identity and Self-Understanding
Definitions
Bibliography
Falling Age of Puberty
On Nudity and Sexual Shame by Eduard Brongersma, 1984
Loving Boys by Edward Brongersma
Introduction
Hand Techniques
Interfemoral intercourse
Sexual Activity with the Mouth
Anal Intercourse
Bibliography
Pederasty amongst primates
Monkey pederasty by G.V. Hamilton
Rhesus macaque pederasty by Kempf
The Social Life of Monkeys and Apes by Solomon Zuckerman, 1932
Free Ranging Monkeys by Carpenter
Mountain Gorillas, 1987
Japanese Macaques by Leca et al., 2014
Antiquity
Introduction to Antiquity
ANTHOLOGIES
Ancient Persia
Ancient Crete
Ancient Sparta
The Metamorphosis of Kyparissos
The Metamorphosis of Hyakinthos
Harmodios & Aristogeiton, 514 BC
Sophokles as a boy-lover
The impeachment of Capitolinus
The disgrace of L. Quinctius Flaminius, 184 BC
The killing of Gaius Lusius, 104 BC
The Roman Emperor Trajan
Hadrian and Antinous
ANCIENT AUTHORS
Arrian - Anabasis of Alexander
The Book of the Laws of Countries
Augustan History
Hadrian
Verus to Diadumenianus
Antoninus Heliogabalus
Alexander Severus to Carinus
Cassius Dio - Roman History
LI-LXV: 31 BC - AD 69
LXVI-LXVIII 4: AD 69-98
LXVIII 5-end: 98-117
LXIX: 117-138
LXX-LXXIX: 138-218
LXXX: 218-229 (end)
Cicero - For Milo
Cicero - On the Republic
Curtius Rufus - Alexander the Great
The Greek Anthology
Alkaios
Antipatros of Sidon
Asklepiades
Dioskourides
Kallimachos
Plato the philosopher
Rhianos
Simonides
Statilius Flaccus
Straton
Miscellaneous poems of the imperial Roman era
Herodian - History of the Empire
Julian - The Caesars
Kallimachos of Cyrene
Aitia
Epigrams
Fragments of uncertain location
Hymns
Lyric Poems
Livy - History of Rome XXXIX
Lucian
Dialogues of the Gods I-II, XIV-end
Dialogues of the Gods III-XIII
The Judgement of the Goddesses by Lucian
Dialogues of the Dead
On the Alexandrine War, 48-47 BC
Ovid - Metamorphoses X 85-142
Parthenios - Sufferings in Love
Petronius - The Pergamese Boy
Plato
The Symposium
The Phaidros
Plutarch - Sayings of Romans
Plutarch - Lives
Agesilaos
Agis and Kleomenes
Alexander
Alkibiades
Antony
Aristeides
Cato the Younger
Demetrios
Gaius Marius
Galba
Kimon
Lykourgos
Marcellus
Marcus Cato
Pelopidas
Perikles
Pyrrhos
Sertorius
Solon
Themistokles
Titus Flaminius
The Style of Life & Manners of the Emperors
Suetonius
Lives of Illustrious Men
The Twelve Caesars
Tacitus - The Annals and Histories
Victor, Aurelius - On the Caesars
Xenophon
Agesilaos
Anabasis
Constitution of the Lakedaimonians
Hellenika
Hieron
MODERN STUDIES
A Problem in Greek Ethics by John Addington Symonds (pdf)
Did the Greeks Pedicate their Loved Boys?
Pursuit and Flight by Sir Kenneth Dover
Fighting Cock in Greek Pederasty
The Greek Experiment by Parker Rossman
The Entimos Pais of Matthew & Luke
Boys for Sale - Ancient Times
Roman Sex Exploitation by Rossman
The Judeo-Christian Reaction by Parker Rossman
Thoughts on a bowl from Pompeii
The hidden erotic meaning of one of Straton's poems
Europe, 5th-17th centuries
Introduction to Europe AD 381-1662
The Laws of the Christian Roman Emperors
The Secret History by Prokopios
Byzantine Poems in The Greek Anthology
Ganymede and Hebe, 13th century
Alcibiades the Schoolboy
English Translation
Introduction
French Preface
Lithgow's 19 Yeares Travayles
The Histories by L. Chalkokondyles
Journals of J.-J. Bouchard, 1630-32
-- ENGLAND --
Shakespeare's Boy Actors
Introduction
Chapter 1: Representations
Chapter 2: Androgyny
Chapter 3: As You Like It
Chapter 4: Twelfth Night
Chapter 5: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Conclusion
Bibliography
Shakespeare's Boyfriend, Sonnet XX
--GERMANY--
Prisoner of the Infidels by Osmân Agha, 1691
--THE NETHERLANDS--
Jérôme Duquesnoy by Georges Eekhoud
Hieronymus Duquesnoy by Geert Debeuckelaere
-- FRANCE --
The poems of Marbod of Rennes
The poems of Hilary the Englishman
The Debate of Ganymede and Helen
The trial of Arnold of Verniolle for heresy and sodomy, 1323-4
Ottoman Prince Jem, 1482
The trial of Anthony Bacon, 1586
The "attentat manuel" on Louis XIV
--SPAIN--
Love of Boys in Medieval Hebrew Poetry of Spain (pdf)
--ITALY--
Benvenuto Cellini's autobiography
The punishment of Cellini for sodomising boys
Europe, modern
Introduction to modern Europe
Norman Douglas (1868-1952)
Looking Back by Norman Douglas
Norman Douglas by Mark Holloway
Letters from his old boys, 1921-47
John Davenport on Norman Douglas
Iceland
Great Britain
Great Britain Introduction
Paederasty - Jeremy Bentham
Fanny Hill by John Cleland, 1749
The hanging of James Taylor, 1809
Sir James Brooke, 1803-68
Tradtional Sea-Bathing (1882)
BOARDING-SCHOOLS
A Demon Hovering by John Chandos
J.A. Symonds - Harrow 1854-58
Berners - Cheam & Eton 1893-99
M.C. Davidson - Lancing 1908-13
Joe Ackerley - Rossall 1908-14
George Orwell - St. Cyprian's 1911-16
C. S. Lewis - Malvern 1913-14
Evelyn Waugh - Lancing 1917-21 & Arnold House (Flintshire) 1925
Eton Voices (13 boys) - Eton 1918-82
James Lees-Milne - Eton 1921-26
Quentin Crisp - Denstone 1922-26
N.M.V. Rothschild - Harrow 1924-29
T.C. Worsley - Marlborough, Wellington & Gordonstoun 1925-34
Robin Maugham - Highfield ca. 1928
Robin Maugham - Eton 1930-32
Brian Inglis - Shrewsbury 1930-35
Hallam Tennyson - Eton 1933-7
George Hayim - Harrow 1934-36
Gavin Lambert - St. George's & Cheltenham 1935-39
Simon Raven - Cordwalles 1936-39
Quentin Dodds - Eton 1940-42
7th Marquess of Bath - Eton 1946-47
Sir Ranulph Fiennes - Eton 1956-61
Christopher Hitchens - Mount Ho. & The Leys 1957-67
Stephen Fry - Uppingham 1970-71
John Addington Symonds's Memoirs
Was a classical education an incitement to Greek love?
The Memoirs of a Voluptuary
Introduction to The Memoirs of a Voluptuary
The Gates of Dawn
A New Acquaintance
Doctissimus Puer
Venus and Adonis
A Masquerade and the Penalty
A Lesson in Physiology
Glimpses from the Golden Age
Lord Henry
Hebworth Castle and L'Envoi
Notes on Hutchinson's Boy-Worship
"Bosie" Douglas on his sexual self
The Priest and the Acolyte
The Chameleon
Ralph Chubb: Prophet and Paiderast
Tragedy of Sir Hector Macdonald
Paidikion: A Paiderastic Manuscript
Norman Douglas in London, 1915-7
Michael Davidson, 1897-1975
Introduction to M. C. Davidson
Lancing, 1908-13
Early Experiences, 1913-19
London and Oxford, 1922-28
London, 1936-7
Cockney Mates, 1937
London, 1941-6
Interview in the Examiner, 1973
Obituaries of Michael Davidson, 1975
Naked Civil Servant by Q. Crisp
Flannelled Fool by T. C. Worsley
Teardrops on My Drum (pdf)
A Life with Entrances and Exits
Early Years
The Adventures of an Off-duty Pilot
T. H. White 1906-64
Alan Turing, 1912-54
Benjamin Britten and David Hemmings, 1953-55
Monty's Little Swiss and Other Boys
The Orton Diaries
Pederast by Angus Stewart, 1961
The Twisting Lane by Tony Parker
A Boy Scout Whistles And Smiles
The Child-Lovers, ca. 1953-79
Introduction to The Child-Lovers
Active Adam, ca. 1950-79
William, the ruined teacher
"A Perfect Relationship" in England of the 1970s
Worried Neil, 1970s
Well-travelled Peter, ca. 1972-79
Derek the social worker, 1940s-1970s
Richie McMullen
Enchanted Boy (pdf)
Enchanted Youth (pdf)
Breakfast in Brighton
Earl Mountbatten of Burma, 1900-79
Denmark
Introduction to Denmark
"Softness" in a Boring Field, 1744
Crime without Victims, ca. 1943-86
Introduction to Crime without Victims
Bent, a typical Danish loved-boy
When things go wrong
Homosexuality and male identity
Another bad story: a case of blackmail
Homosexual Paedophile Relations
"Examining child witnesses is always risky"/ Manfred Petersen, attorney
"One night going home from Scouts"/ Holger, 55
"You won't get a colour television if you don't stop seeing Niels."/ Per, 16
"I was afraid that it could turn into abuse"/ Sus, 24
"An incredible number of children are left to themselves"/ Erik, 42
"I suspect he'll go with my little brother later"/ Stefan, 10
"There was always a streak of sadomasochism in me"/ Martin, 19
"If I had enough money I wouldn't do it"/ Peter, 14
"I've always done what they say I shouldn't"/ Tommy, 20
"He Understands Me Better Than My Own Mother"/ David, 16
Sweden
Greek Love in Sweden
Report from Sweden, 1980
Russia
Introduction to Russia
Boys for Sale - Russia
Germany
Germany Introduction
Sagitta's Books of the Nameless Love - John Henry Mackay
The Hustler - John Henry Mackay
Heinz Kohut and his tutor, ca. 1924-6
Who Dares Speak of Love?
Michael Davidson in Berlin
Dieter, a Viennese Boy on the Game
Boys for Sale - Germany
Hajo Ortil - Interview
Norman Douglas by Mark Holloway
Gad Beck's boyhood in Berlin, 1932-5
Switzerland
Michael Davidson - An Accident in the Alps
George Hayim - Thou Shalt Not Uncover Thy Mother's Nakedness
Monty's Little Swiss Friend, 1946-50
The Netherlands
Introduction to the Netherlands
The House That Paul Built
Edgar, 11, on Dutch radio, 1981
Dutch policemen who understood, 1981
France
Introduction
Letters from Liselotte 1681-1720
Socratic Love by Voltaire
The likely pederastic implication of J.-L. David's painting, The Death of Bara, by Jean-Claude Féray
Moslem accounts of France 1803-46
Letter on boy prostitution, Paris, 1846
Boys for Sale - France
Alcibiades the Schoolboy - Preface
A Masquerade and the Penalty
The initiation of André Gide, 1893-4
André Gide's story by Rossman
Bosie's Misadventure in Paris
Looking Back by Norman Douglas
Roger Peyrefitte's story by Rossman
A lesson on sexual naivety, 1936
Norman Douglas in France 1917-23
Spain
Italy
Introduction
The attempted seduction of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1728
Frederick Rolfe's Venice letters
Norman Douglas by Mark Holloway
Looking Back by Norman Douglas
Taormina in 1924 by Franz Schoenberner
An American Initiated in War-Time Naples, 1943
A Meeting of Three Like Minds in Capri, 1951
Naughty Naples by Michael Davidson
Ischia, Island of Lavish Boys
"Rome" by Michael Davidson
Catania in Sicily, 1959
Boys for Sale - Italy
Albania
Albania Introduction
Ali Pasha and His Sons, 1741-1822
Boy-love in Albania, 1854
On Homosexuality in Albania, 1908
Albanian pederasty in 1979
Greece
Introduction to modern Greece
Records of Travels, 1829, 1830 by Adolphus Slade
A German in Greece, ca. 1960s
Africa, sub-Saharan
Introduction to Sub-Saharan Africa
Boy-Wives of the Azande of Sudan
Buggery in Buganda, 1885-7
The Mossi, by Louis Tauxier, 1912
Unnatural Vice in the Johannesburg Compounds, 1915, by Henry Junod
Michael Davidson in South Africa
Michael Davidson in Dakar, 1948
Good Company by Monica Wilson
The Slave Trade Today by Sean O'Callaghan, 1961
The Near East & North Africa
Introduction to the Near East and North Africa AD 381-
Morocco
Michael Davidson
French Morocco, 1937-40 and 1947
Marrakech: A Chleuh Dance,1947
Enthrallingly Wicked Tangier, 1939-48
An American Initiated in War-Time Naples, 1944
A Frenchman in Morocco by Parker Rossman
Tangier 1961-74 by Angus Stewart
The Orton Diaries, 1967
The Way It Is in Morocco, 1974
Egypt
Egypt in 1783 by C-F Volney
Egypt and Mohammed Ali
Flaubert in Egypt, 1849-50
The Moulid of Sheikh Abu Harera, 1908
The People of Siwah by Walter Cline
The Oasis of Siwa - Robin Maugham
Boys for Sale - Egypt
Turkey
"Le Vice" in Turkey
The Scented Garden by B. Stern
The Decline & Fall of Byzantium
Mehmed the Conqueror by Kritoboulos
Ottoman Prince Jem, 1482
George Manwaring on Turkey and Persia, 1598-9
The Rules of Social Gatherings by Mustafa Âli
The History of the Serrail by Michel Baudier
The Ottoman Empire by Paul Rycaut, 1666
The Diaries of John Covel, 1675
The Present State of the Ottoman Empire by Aaron Hill, 1709
The Travels of Lord Charlemont 1749
Memoirs of Baron de Tott
The erotic poems of Fazil Bey
The Book of Women by Fazil Bey
Records of Travels, 1829, 1830 by Adolphus Slade
Flaubert in Constantinople, 1850
Boys for Sale by Drew & Drake
Persia
Introduction to Persia
Two loves of the Sufi poet ʿIrāqī
The poems of Obeyd-e Zakani
George Manwaring on Turkey and Persia, 1598-9
A Chronicle of the Carmelites in Persia, 1609-92
Some Years Travels by Sir Thomas Herbert
A New Account of East India and Persia by John Fryer, 1698
The poems of Iraj Mirza
Boys for Sale by Drew & Drake
Algiers by Ant. de Sosa, ca. 1580
Lithgow's 19 Yeares Travayles
A Voyage into the Levant by Henry Blount, 1636
Thomas Baker's Journal 1677-85
The Religion and Manners of the Mahometans, 1704
Moslem accounts of France 1803-46
Travels in Assyria and Persia, 1815
The initiation of André Gide, 1893-4
Gide in North Africa by Rossman
Bosie's Adventures in Algeria, 1895
Boys for Sale - The Arab Near East
Boys for Sale - Land of the Atlas
The Histories by L. Chalkokondyles
The Slave Trade Today by Sean O'Callaghan, 1961
The Boys of the New Israel, 1948
Michael Davidson in Cyprus, 1954-7
An American in N. Africa, 1943-76
An Englishman in Syria, 1970s
An American in Lebanon
The Jewel in the Lotus by Edwardes
The age of the Loved Boy in the Arab-Islamic World
The Thousand Nights and One Night
Introduction to the 1,001 Nights
The Tale of the Third Kalandar
The Wazīr Nūr al-Dīn & co.
Prince Tāj al-Mulūk
The Tale of Kamar al-Zamān and Princess Budūr
Happy-Handsome and Happy-Fair
The Tale of Alā al-Dīn Abū Shāmāt
The Tale of Zumurrud and Alī Shār
The Poet Abū Nuwās, His Boys, and the Caliph
The Youth and his Master
Girls or Boys?
Salāh al-Dīn and his Wazīr
The Adventures of Mercury Ali of Cairo
The Adventures of Hasan of Basrah
The Tale of Kamar and the Expert Halīmah
The Tale of Princess Zulaikah
The Splendid Tale of Prince Diamond
Short prose excerpts
Poems
India & Central Asia
Introduction to India & Central Asia
-- TURKISTAN --
The Baburnama
Journey in Turkistan, 1873
-- AFGHANISTAN --
The Jewel in the Lotus by Edwardes
Boys for Sale - Afghanistan
Homosex Returns to Kandahar, 2001
Kandahar Journal, 2002
Isn't Greek post-Taliban, 2002
--TIBET--
A boy and his monk in Lhasa ca. 1943-9
-- INDIA --
East India and Persia, 1698
Paidikion: A Paiderastic Manuscript
Lahore by Michael Davidson, 1949
Hindu Kush 1959 by F. Maraini
The Slave Trade Today by Sean O'Callaghan, 1961
Boys for Sale - India and Pakistan
A Canadian in Central Asia, 1970s
-- CEYLON --
Tragedy of Sir Hector Macdonald
Sri Lanka in 1979
Sri Lanka - Culture Clash, 1981
The Far East
Introduction to the Far East
Japan
Introduction to Japan
Kōbō-Daishi's Book
Kannon's Manifestation as a Youth
The Chigo no sōshi, 14th century
Essays in Idleness by Kenkō, 1330-32
The Tale of Genji, ca. 1008
Striking Contrasts in the Customs of Europe and Japan
The stories of Ihara Saikaku
Catalogue of the stories
The Life of an Amorous Man
Gengobei, The Mountain of Love
Within the Fence
Love Letter Sent in a Sea Bass
Though Bearing an Umbrella, He Was Rained Upon
Aloeswood Boy of the East
Tortured to Death with Snow on His Sleeve
The Sickbed No Medicine Could Cure
He Fell in Love When the Mountain Rose Was in Bloom
Love’s Flame Kindled by a Flint Seller
The Tragic Love of Two Enemies
A Friend of the Streets
At Least He Wears His Youth's Kimono
Far Better to Consider What She Said at the End
A Boy's Beauty Flowers When his Forelock is Unshaven
Letter from a Buddhist Priest telling his Friend that his Lover comes to him
The age of the loved boy in traditional Japan
Boys for Sale - Japan
An Anglo-Japanese Love Story - Davidson
Boy-love in Japan 1965-90
China
Introduction to China
The Carnal Prayer Mat, 1657
House of Gathered Refinements, 1658
The Memoirs of the Kangxi Emperor
Travels in China - John Barrow
19th-Century Chinese Novel
Prostitution in China by Gustaaf Schlegel, 1866
Boy Actors in Peking by Cai heng zi
China in Untrodden Fields of Anthropology
Two Words on Pederasty in China - J. J. Matignon
Pei Yu: Boy Actress by George Soulié de Morant
Georges Hérelle's testimony, 1902-3
Boys for Sale - China
Puyi, the last emperor, 1906-67
Burma
Introduction
Some Years Travels by Sir Thomas Herbert
Canoe to Mandalay by R. Raven-Hart, 1939
Rangoon, 1949, by Michael Davidson
Vietnam
Introduction to Vietnam
Annamite Pederasty in Untrodden Fields of Anthropology
The Alexandre Yersin Case by Geschenk
Davidson - Trysts in Vietnam 1949-50
Vietnam and Thailand, ca. 1950-73
Cambodia
Siam (Thailand)
Introduction to Siam
Boys for Sale
Vietnam and Thailand - Vietnam War
Kite Music by Gary Shellhart (pdf)
Dear Uncle Go
Malaya
Singapore
Introduction to Singapore
Michael Davidson in Singapore, 1949-52
Sumatra
Borneo
Rajah Brooke of Sarawak
Adventures of an Off-duty Pilot
Java
Introduction to Java
Soetjipto's First Love, 1923-4 (pdf)
Bali
Introduction to Bali
The World's Last Island of Innocence
The Diaries of Donald Friend
The Balinese by J. Jacobs, 1881
The Philippines
Introduction to the Philippines
The Philippines in Boys for Sale
The Paggers Papers by Rawson (pdf)
The Filipino Experience, 1982
Oceania
Introduction to Oceania
-- AUSTRALIA --
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
Children of the Desert by Géza Róheim
Trysts in Sydney around 1970
The Diaries of Donald Friend
The Man They Called a Monster by Paul Wilson (pdf)
I Came to Australia by Anty. Bacon
--MELANESIA--
The Kaluli of New Guinea, 1964-8
The Onabasulu of New Guinea, 1970-3 (pdf)
Papuans of the Trans-Fly by F.E. Williams, 1934
Solomon Islands
Stone Men of Malekula by Layard
--POLYNESIA--
Greek love in Tahiti
The Community Function of Tahitian Male Transvestitism (pdf)
Marquesan Sexual Behavior by Robert Suggs
The Americas
Introduction to the Americas
The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz
The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America
Greek love in French Guiana, 1870s
The Trumaí of Brazil, 1938
Game-Texts: A Guatemalan Journal by Erskine Lane, ca. 1973-78
Greek love in Colombia, 1970s-80s
Walt Whitman at Southold (pdf)
Homosexuality Among Tramps
"Jockers" and "Punks" in the early 20th-century north-western USA
Scotty Bowers's Boyhood 1931-8
Tennessee Williams and his Ganymede of 15, 1943
An American Initiated in War-Time Naples, 1950s-60s
Some Uncomplicated Greek Love Affairs by J. Z. Eglinton
Some Difficult Greek Love Affairs by J. Z. Eglinton
The strange case of Dr. Dooley, 1955
The Male Adolescent Involved with a Pederast Becomes an Adult
The United States in Boys for Sale
Boy Prostitution in New York, 1968
A survey of eighteen New York boy prostitutes, 1968
A Biography of a New York Pimp
Casimir Dukahz
The Asbestos Diary (pdf)
Vice Versa (pdf)
It's a Boy (pdf)
Growing Old Disgracefully (pdf)
The Consenting Boys by Rossman
Introduction
Characteristics of Consenting Boys
Types of Pederast Relationships
Why Do Boys Do It?
Types of Sexual Activity
Enabling Climate: Statistics
Attitudes Towards Arrest
The Actual Seduction
Some Concluding Observations
Support from Adolescent Culture by Rossman
Introduction
A Tribal Society of Adolescents
Conspiratorial Secrecy
The Hustlers
Some Concluding Observations
The Ladder Down by Rossman
Paul Goodman, 1911-72
Are There Solutions? by Rossman
Chicago to Cheyenne by N. Irving
"Horrible Temptations" in Ontario, 1890-1935 by Steven Maynard (pdf)
Puppies by John Valentine (pdf)
Getting It On by J. Winchester (pdf)
Test Trumbach menu
Literature
Biographies
Full List
--TO READ ON THIS WEBSITE--
Shakespeare's Boyfriend and Sonnet XX, by J. Z. Eglinton
The Alexandre Yersin Case by Geschenk
Ralph Nicholas Chubb: Prophet and Paiderast
Pederast by Angus Stewart
A Boy Scout Whistles And Smiles
--GREEK LOVE EXTRACTS--
The Memoirs of a Voluptuary (links)
Norman Douglas - Looking Back
Norman Douglas by Mark Holloway
Michael Davidson (links)
T. H. White: A Biography
Flannelled Fool: a slice of life in the Thirties
Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars
Monty at Close Quarters
The Orton Diaries
Tangier: A Writer's Notebook
--PDFs--
The Portrait of Mr. W. H.
Walt Whitman at Southold
First Love: The Opening of Soetjipto's Djalan Sampoerna
Teardrops on my Drum
Enchanted Boy by McMullen
Enchanted Youth by McMullen
Casimir Dukahz
The Asbestos Diary
Vice Versa
It's a Boy
Growing Old Disgracefully
The Man They Called a Monster
Puppies by John Valentine
Michael Jackson Was My Lover
-- REVIEWS --
Alexander's Lovers by A. Chugg
Walt Whitman's Mystical Ethics of Comradeship by Herrero Brasas
Oscar Browning: A Biography
Secret Life of Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde's Scandalous Summer
Prince Eddy and the Homosexual Underworld
J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys
The Real Tadzio by Gilbert Adair
Norman Douglas by Mark Holloway
Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality by Rachel Hope Cleves
Hindoo Holiday by Joe Ackerley
Teardrops on My Drum
The World, The Flesh and Myself by Michael Davidson
Sicilian Vespers and other writings by Michael Davidson
Full Service by Scotty Bowers
Enchanted Boy by R. McMullen
Enchanted Youth by R. McMullen
Notre Amour by Roger Peyrefitte
The Twisting Lane by Tony Parker
Puppies by John Valentine
It’s Okay to Say Yes by J. Darling
Un deuxième père by J.-D. Bunel
Other Histories
Full List
--TO READ ON THIS WEBSITE--
A Demon Hovering
Untrodden Fields of Anthropology by Dr. Jacobus X... (via introduction)
Boys for Sale by Drew & Drake (via introduction)
Crime without Victims (via introduction)
The Child-Lovers (via introduction)
--PDFs--
The Paggers Papers
Onabasulu Male Homosexuality
Tahitian Male Transvestitism
Joseph Winchester - Getting It On
Horrible Temptations
-- REVIEWS --
Homosexuality in Greek Myth
Gay Greek Myths
Eros Kalos
The Greeks and Greek Love
Crucifixion of Hyacinth
Forbidden Friendships
Empire and Sexuality
Cleveland Street Scandal
Greek Love in British India
Nigger at Eton
Getting It On
Male Intergenerational Intimacy
Boys at Sea
General Non-Fiction
Full List
--TO READ ON THIS WEBSITE--
The Symposium by Plato
The Phaidros by Plato
Offences Against Oneself: Paederasty by Jeremy Bentham
Pederasty by Sir Richard Burton
Sexual Experience between Men and Boys by Parker Rossman
--PDFs--
Boy-Worship by C.E. Hutchinson
Hebephilia as a Mental Disorder? by Bruce Rind
Pederasty by Bruce Rind
-- REVIEWS --
Greek Love by JZ Eglinton
The Chameleon
Fiction and Drama
Full List
To read on this website
The Thousand Nights and One Night (links)
Bloxam, John Francis - The Priest and the Acolyte
Campbell, Robert - My Father's Story
Cleland, John - Fanny Hill
Freeman, Steven Adrian
Sunshine Boy, Chapter I
Sunshine Boy, Chapter II
Kannon's Manifestation as a Youth
Remington, John - A Gift from Santa
Rocco, Antonio - Alcibiades the Schoolboy
S., Brad - Joe and the Hustler
Scott Moncrieff, Charles - Evensong and Morwe Song
PDFs of novels with Greek love as the main theme: authors A-K
Berliner, Ross - The Manhood Ceremony
Caminha, Adolfo - Bom-Crioulo
Green, G.F. - In the Making
Campbell, Robert - Singularities
Chubb, Ralph - The Child of Dawn
Dueweke, Stephen - Playing Soldiers in the Dark
Edward, Alan
Kit
The Fire-Worshipper
The Gods of Babylon
Eisenhardt, Jens - Kim, My Beloved
Esser, Kevin
Street Boy Dreams
Dance of the Warriors
Something Like Happiness
Fuger, Wallington - Solos, Duets & Improvisations
Gilbert, Peter & Tom Holt
Adam and the Paradise Garden
A Boy's Sweet Sorrow and Satisfaction
Hamilton, Wallace - Kevin
Henderson, Bob - Attic Adolescent
Hunt, Chris
Mignon
Street Lavender
Huston, Bo - The Dream Life
Kochany, Mario - As Schoolboys from their Books
PDFs of novels with Greek love as the main theme: authors L-Z
Lund, Asger - The Boy & the Dagger
Mallery, Daniel - Strange Catharsis
Matthews, Kenneth - Aleko
Maugham, R. - The Wrong People
Montherlant, Henry de - The Boys
Moorhouse, Frank - The Everlasting Secret Family: An Erotic Memoir
Murchison, Colin - The Chronicles of St. Barnabas
Nicholson, John Gambril - The Romance of a Choirboy
Onstott, Kyle & Lance Horner - Child of the Sun
Peters, Fritz - Finistère
Peyrefitte, Roger
Special Friendships
Roy
Reid, Forrest - The Garden God
Shellhart, Gary - Kite Music
Tesch, Gerald - Never the Same Again
Soulié de Morant, George - Pei Yu: Boy Actress
Worthy, Simon - The Chronicles of the Koster Dilemma
PDFs of Anthologies of Greek love stories
Panthology One ed. by Frank Torey
Darling, J. - The Black Symposium
Dukahz, Casimir - Klaustrophilia
Edward, Alan - Will O' the Wisp
Hakim - The Silver Pipe Cafe & Other Texts
Lund, Asger - Ahmet, The Treasurer's Son
McLaughlin, Ian - Casuistry and Other Mischiefs
Waters, Daryl - Three Temples
Wood, Steven - Camping Out
Wood, Steven - Joey's Island
Panthology Two ed. by Frank Torey
Anderson, Ian - Fishing
Bard, K. I. - Theban Patrol
Bishop, John - Dennis
Colantuono, Louis A. - Lonely Roamer and Foolish Child
Dukahz, Casimir - Three by Dukahz
Edward, Alan - The Stake
Edward, Alan - High Doh
Esser, Kevin - Summer Games
Hakim - Dragonfly and Other Texts
Pitt, Nathaniel - Dragons
Pitt, Nathaniel - Grown Up for Thirteen
Spence, Keith - The Unexpected Legacy of Uncle Edward
Underhill, Bill - Anton
Panthology Three ed. by Frank Torey
Bishop, John - Del
Colantuono, Louis A. - The Gremmie
Colantuono, Louis A. - Chris
Darling, J. - The Age of Gold
Esser, Kevin - Three Visions
Hakim - Nineteen Imitations of Abu Nowas
Hakim - Artificial Fires and Other Texts
McLaughlin, Ian - More Mischiefs
Waters, Daryl - Mirage
Wood, Steven - One Night, One Day
Wren, Meriwether - Billy
Wren, Meriwether - War on Earth
Wren, Meriwether - A Boy's Love and a Whore's Oath
Panthology Four ed. by Frank Torey
Campbell, Robert - The Pale Black, the World Servant, and the Voice of God
Tryst, Simon - Under Thirteen
Bunda, Jared - The Book of Moth
de Rast, Peter - The King of Calcutta
Campbell, Robert - Android
Spence, Keith - Lower Than the Angels
Andrews, Brock - Sammy and my Bishop
Esser, Kevin - Sweet Sorrow
Bishop, John - A Prospect of Bliss
1st Acolyte Reader ed. by F. Torey
Tryst, Simon - Floreat Grundy
Esser, Kevin - Sandburg Buccaneers
Dukahz, Casimir - The Amethyst Encounter
Bard, K. I. - Ball Games
Lewis, Matt - A Matter of Public Morality
Esser, Kevin - One September Day
Wood, Steven - Cheating at School
Henderson, Bob - Pericles
Campbell, Robert - Rodney
Esser, Kevin - The Dying of the Light
2nd Acolyte Reader ed. by F. Torey
Esser, Kevin - Dangerous Boys
de Rast, Peter - Timber Thieves
Woods, Louis Walter - The Great Kuddly Kub Plan
Dukahz, Casimir - The Boy Who Cried ‘Wolf!'
Bey, Hakim - Tres Flores
Turner, Frank - Blackmail
Henderson, Bob - Angelos
Campbell, Robert - Scruples
Bunda, Jared - Toy Soldiers
3rd Acolyte Reader ed. by F. Torey
Taft, Leonard - A Different Drummer Boy
Esser, Kevin - Boyfriends
Ingles, I. L. - P.D.
Taft, Leonard - Llanitos
Dukahz, Casmir - Master Feelgood
Hakim Bey - Two Texts
Henderson, Bob - Afters
Taft, Leonard - Small Blessings
PDFs of novels with Greek love as a significant theme
Bunda, Jared - St. Matthews Passion
Bunda, Jared - The Well-tempered Schoolboy
Corvo, Baron - Stories Toto Told Me
Dilke, Christopher - The Rotten Apple
Prime-Stevenson, Edward - Left to Themselves
Zilinsky, Ursula - Middle Ground
Reviews of novels with Greek love as the main theme: authors A-L
Bernard, Frits - Costa Brava
Berube, R.G. - Peg Boy
Birken, Heinz - Every Kind of Love is Love
Bradbury Robinson, C.J. - Minor Incidents, Williams Mix & Young Thomas
Caminha, Adolfo - Bom-Crioulo
Downey, Rod - The Moralist
Edson, Jay - Marcus and Me
Edward, Alan - Kit
Eisenhardt, Jens - Kim, My Beloved
Esser, Kevin - Street Boy Dreams
Foelske, Walter - Cousin Cousin
Gilbert & Holt - Adam and the Paradise Garden
Henderson, Bob - Attic Adolescent
Huston, Bo - The Dream Life
Reviews of novels with Greek love as the main theme: authors M-Z
Mackay, John Henry
Sagitta's Nameless Love
The Hustler
Mann, Thomas - Death in Venice
Marlowe, Edmund - Alexander's Choice (links)
Nicholls, Bron - Reasons of the Heart
Peyrefitte, Roger
Roy
Special Friendships
Rocco, Antonio - Alcibiades the Schoolboy
Stewart, Angus - Sandel
Williams, Roger - Lunch with Elizabeth David
Yeo, Robin - All Boys Together
Reviews of anthologies of Greek love stories
Panthology One
Panthology Two
Panthology Three
Panthology Four
The First Acolyte Reader
The Second Acolyte Reader
The Third Acolyte Reader
Reviews of novels with Greek love as a significant theme
Corvo, Baron - Stories Toto Told Me
Fishback, Jere' M. - Josef Jaeger
Frame, Ronald - The Lantern Bearers
Gomez-Arcos, Agustin - The Carniverous Lamb
Hartnett, P. P. - I Want to Fuck You
L'Heureux, John - The Medici Boy
Matzneff, Gabriel - Drunk on Lost Wine
Raven, Simon - Fielding Gray
Renault, Mary - The Persian Boy
Rice, Anne - Cry to Heaven
Saylor, Steven - The Judgement of Caesar
Sturgis, Howard - Tim
Poetry
The Debate of Ganymede and Helen
Hilary the Englishman - poems
Full List
--PDFs--
Darling, J. - Verses in the Manner of Strato’s Musa Puerilis
Nicholson, John Gambril - Love in Earnest
Smith, Arnold - A Boy's Absence
Somerset, Lord Henry - Songs of Adieu
Stefani, Mario - Other Gods
Lord Alfred Douglas - poems
The limericks of Norman Douglas
Fazil Bey - Erotic poems
Fazil Bey - The Book of Women
The Greek Anthology
Introduction
Alkaios
Antipatros of Sidon
Asklepiades
Dioskourides
Kallimachos
Plato the philosopher
Rhianos
Simonides
Statilius Flaccus
Straton
Miscellaneous poems of the imperial Roman era
Byzantine poems
A Boy on the Bus by Hummingbird
Iraj Mirza - poems
Banquet Boys by Prince Jem
Kallimachos - poems & hymns
Marbod of Rennes - poems
Nedîm - Beautiful Çârpâre Dancer
Obeyd-e Zakani - poems
Wilfred Owen - poems
The Thousand Nights and One Night
Other
Alexander's Choice
About
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Review in The London Review of Books
Review in Baltimore Outloud
Review by Mark Andrew
Review by Cuthbert
Review by John Hamilton
Review by Emile Lucien
Review by John Mackay
Review by Son of Nietzsche
Review by Burnt Offerings
Review by Parsifal
Review by New York Resident
Review by Gary Scott
Film
Full list
Special Friendships by Steven Freeman
Chapters 1-10
Contents and introduction
Boyhood culture
Silent mischief
Invisible boys in period films
The three loves of boyhood
Friendly no more
Kid sidekicks do have their uses
Desperadoes and their fellow travelers
The child as catastrophic friend
Boys on the bounding main
Chapters 11-20
The Western as playground (girls keep out!)
Bachelor fathers (it wouldn’t do to encourage it)
The outcast who does win the boy
Sons and their fathers - for better or worse
Men in boys’ bodies – and Vice Versa
Cuckoos in the Nest
The road has may turnings
Jealousy of the hired hand
Footloose and fancy free
The "pseudo" boy in commercial movies
Chapters 21-30
The cane in the cupboard
Teachers who are very fond ...
A friend in need
Follow Me, Boys!
Human cats, dwarfs, imaginary friends
Self-assembly boys
Amoral friendship - the vicissitudes of war
Burnt little fingers
The Thumbscrews they are a-Turning
I am the love that dare not speak its name (though you howl it back at me)
Chapters 31-40
The Watershed of "Innocence"
The A word cometh
Boys for hire (easy terms)
Minority reports
Sad and fleeting beauty
An Awfully Honest Film
Other titles of interest
Index by year
Index by name
The dark side of the coin
Asher Archive
Introduction & gateway to the entire archive
Films of Greek love interest
Abuse (1983)
Les amitiés particulières (1964)
Black Adder II: Bells (1986)
Blue Jeans (1976)
Burning Secret (1988)
Du er ikke alene (1978)
Fellini Satyricon (1969)
Gossenkind (1991)
If ... (1968)
Le juge et l'assassin (1976)
Lakki – gutten som kunne fly (1992)
Mandragora (1997)
Montreal Main (1974)
Now That It's Morning (1992)
Pianese Nunzio, 14 anni a maggio (1996)
Public Enemy No. 1 – The Man Who Killed a Hundred Boys (2001)
¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto? (1984)
La Révolte des enfants (1992)
Satyricon (1969)
Smukke dreng (1993)
Le souffle au coeur (1971)
Telo bez duse (1996)
Subjects of Greek love interest
Nudity
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Abuse (1983)
Les amitiés particulières (1964)
Death in Venice (1971)
Un enfant dans la foule (1975)
Guter Junge (2008)
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