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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
- Traditional 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
- TheSeductive 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 a 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 Edward Brongersma, 1984
- Loving Boys by Edward Brongersma
- Introduction
- Hand Techniques
- Interfemoral intercourse
- Sexual Activity with the Mouth
- Anal Intercourse
- Bibliography
- Pederasty Amongst Primates
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 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 the Countries
- Augustan History
- 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
- Leonidas of Tarentum
- Plato the Philosopher
- Rhianos
- Simonides
- Statilius Flaccus
- Straton
- Miscellaneous poems in The Garland of Meleagros
- Miscellaneous poems of the imperial Roman era
- Herodian - History of the Empire
- Julian - The Caesars
- Kallimachos of Cyrene
- Livy - History of Romm 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
- 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 Syle of Life & Manners of the Emperors
- Suetonius
- Tacitus - The Annals and Histories
- Victor, Aurelius - On the Caseas
- Xenophon
- 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 of Prokopios
- Byzantine Poems in The Greek Anthology
- Ganymede and Hebe, 13th century
- Alcibiades the Schoolboy
- 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: Representation
- 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 Osman Agha, 1691
- --THE NETHERLANDS--
- Jerome 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
- The Growth of Sodomy, 1731
- Paederasty - Jeremy Bentham
- Fanny Hill by John Cleland, 1749
- The hanging of James Taylor, 1809
- Sir James Brooke, 1803-68
- Traditional Sea-Bathing
- 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
- Evelyn Waugh's diaries 1919-26
- Naked Civil Servant by Q. Crisp
- Flannelled Fool by T. C. Worsley
- Teardrops on My Drum (pdf)
- A Life with Entrances and Exits
- T. H. White 1906-64
- Alan Turning, 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
- 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
- "The emotions involved should be kept at a level suitable to the child"/F.A. Wehner, Judge
- "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
- 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 Aplps
- 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 policeman 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 Feray
- 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 Andre Gide, 1893-4
- Andre 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
- Evelyn Waugh's Diary, 1925
- 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
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
- 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 Ali
- 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
- The Caravan Moves On by Orga
- Persia
- Introduction to Persia
- Two loves of the Sufi poet 'Iraqi
- 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 Andre 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 Wazir Nur al-Din & co.
- Prince Taj al-Muluk
- The Tale of Kamar al-Zaman and Princess Budur
- Happy-Handsome and Happy-Fair
- The Tale of Ala al-Din Abu Shamat
- The Tale of Zumurrud and Ali Shar
- The Poet Abu Nuwas, His Boys, and the Caliph
- The Youth and his Master
- Girls or Boys?
- Salah al-Din and his Wazir
- The Adventures of Mercury Ali of Cairo
- The Adventures of Hasan of Basrah
- The Tale of Kamar and the Expert Halimah
- 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
- Sir Lanka - Culture Clash, 1981
The Far East
- Introduction to the Far East
- Japan
- Introduction to Japan
- Kobo-Daishi's Book
- Kannon's Manifestation as a Youth
- The Chigo no soshi, 14th century
- Essays in Idleness by Kenko, 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 Soulie de Morant
- Georges Herelle'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
- Sumatra
- Borneo
- Java
- Bali
- Introduction to Bali
- The World's Last Island of Innocence
- The Diaries of Donald Friend
- The Balinese by J. Jacobs, 1881
- The Philippines
Oceania
- Introduction
- --AUSTRALIA--
- The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
- Children of the Desert by Geza Roheim
- 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 Diaz
- The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America
- Greek love in French Guiana, 1870s
- The Trumai of Brazil
- 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 and 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 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 Goddman, 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
- Getting It On by J. Winchester (pdf)
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 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
- The Lost Life of Horatio Alger
- 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 deuxieme pere 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
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- Greek Love by JZ Eglinton
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Fiction and Drama
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- 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
- 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
- Eisenhardt, Jens - Kim, My Beloved
- Esser, Kevin
- Fuger, Wallington - Solos, Duets & Improvisations
- Gilbert, Peter & Tom Holt
- Hamilton, Wallace - Kevin
- Henderson, Bob - Attic Adolescent
- Hunt, Chris
- 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
- Onstott, Kyle & Lance Horner - Child of the Sun
- Peters, Fritz - Finistere
- Peyrefitte, Roger
- Reid, Forrest - The Garden God
- Shellhart, Gary - Kite Music
- Tesch, Gerald - Never the Same Again
- Soulie 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
- Dukhaz, 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
- ed 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
- Bard, K. I. - Almost There
- Dukahz, Casimir - Master Feelgood
- Esser, Kevin - Boyfriends
- Hakim Bey - Two Texts
- Henderson, Bob - Afters
- Ingles, I. L. - P. D.
- May, Andrew - Three Stories
- Taft, Leonard - A Different Drummer Boy
- Taft, Leonard - Llanitos
- Taft, Leonard - Small Blessings
- 4th Acolyte Reader ed. by F. Torey
- 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
- Hulse, Charles G. - In Tall Cotton
- 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
- Bernard, Frits - Persecuted Minority
- Berube, R.G. - Peg Boy
- Birken, Heinz - Every Kind of Love
- Bradbury Robinson, C.J. - Minor Incidents, Williams Mix & Young Thomas
- Caminha, Adolfo - Bom-Croulo
- 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
- Mann, Thomas - Death in Venice
- Marlowe, Edmund - Alexander's Choice (links)
- Nicholls, Bron - Reasons of the Heart
- Peyrefitte, Roger
- 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
- The Fourth 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
- Hulse, Charles G. - In Tall Cotton
- 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
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- Hilary the Englishman - poems
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- 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
- Leonidas of Tarentum
- Plato the philospher
- Rhianos
- Simonides
- Statilius Flaccus
- Straton
- Miscellaneous poems of the imperial Roman era
- Byzantine poems
- A Boy on the Bus by Hummingbird
- Iraj Mizra - poems
- Banquet Boys by Prince Jem
- Kallimachos - poems & hymns
- Marbod of Rennes - poems
- Nedim - Beautiful Carpare Dancer
- Obeyd-e Zakani - poems
- Wilfred Owen - poems
- The Thousand Nights and One Night
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- Review by Mark Andrew
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- Review by Emile Lucien
- Review byJohn 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
- Not quite depicting Greek love
- 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 many 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
- Asher Archive
- Introduction & gateway to the entire archive
- Films of Greek love interest
- Abuse (1983)
- Les amities particulieres (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)
- Que he hecho yo para merecer esto? (1984)
- La Revolte des enfants (1992)
- Il sapore del grano (1986)
- Satyricon (1969)
- Smukke dreng (1993)
- Le souffle au coeur (1971)
- Telo bez duse (1996)
- Subjects of Greek love interest
- --REVIEWS--
- Abuse (1983)
- Les amities particulieres (1964)
- Death in Venice (1971)
- Un enfant dans la foule (1975)
- Guter Junge (2008)
- Hermes (1995)
- The Police (1990)
- Shane (1953)
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