Looks at history of boy-love in Greece, Rome, Middle Ages, the Renaissance and on through to the present. Postscript by Dr. Albert Ellis.
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Greek Love is the first literary, historical, psychological and sociological study of boy-love ever to appear.
Up to now, specialists in sexology have been either too confused to say anything of relevance, or too scared to commit it to print! Such authorities as Stekel, Krafft-Ebing, Bergler, George W. Henry, Ulrichs, Carpenter, Havelock Ellis, and Freud managed to write volumes about other sexual practices, but they betrayed no real understanding of what makes a man love a boy.
The author of Greek Love believes that boy-love is a potential social force for good. In Ancient Greece, it was closely bound up with the highest ethical and philosophical ideals. Therefore, we must seriously consider the possibility that boy-love can be a force for good right now, in our own country.
Greek Love is refreshing to read. The author does not affect the modern pseudo-objectivity that is so often a coverup for moral vacillation. Though he treats the subject fairly, he makes no attempt to conceal his pro-sexual orientation.
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In 1764, Cesare Beccaria published the epoch-making treatise Dei delitti e delle pene, which marked the beginning of the movement to reform the medieval penal codes with their savage penalties for sexual offenses.
In 1864, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs published the first of his pamphlets on androphile homosexuality, calling for the recognition of the legal and social rights of a biological minority of the population which religious intolerance had doomed to outlawry and infamy.
In 1914, Magnus Hirschfeld, the greatest authority on homosexuality in the first third of the twentieth century, published Die Homosexualitat des Mannes und des Weibes, in which he argued that attraction to one’s own sex was a congenital and unmodifiable anomaly, a "third sex" occurring as a natural variety of the human species.
In 1964, as the culmination of two hundred years of inquiry and discussion of one of the most complex subjects that have ever baffled the human mind, J. Z.Eglinton published Greek Love, a work destined to clarify the problems of homosexuality and bisexuality by forthrightly repudiating the tendentious assertions of polemicists and apologists and establishing the true character of homosexual relationships within the framework of an orthopsychology and sociology of sexual behavior.
Greek Love – one of the classic treatises in behavioral science – belongs in the library of everyone whose research, teaching, medical or social welfare practice brings him into contact with the sexual problems of modern life, and who is seeking guidance in the interpretation and direction of human sexuality in all its manifold aspects.
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Written by Marion Zimmer Bradley's husband,
This review is from: Greek love, (Hardcover)
I merely wanted to state that J. Z. Eglinton was the pseudonym of the late Walter Breen, a numismatist (coin expert) who was married to Marion Zimmer Bradley. He died in prison and I hardly need say what the charge was.
19 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
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A brilliant madman.,
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This review is from: Greek Love (Paperback)
J.Z. Eglinton, also known as Walter H. Breen, coauthored "Greek Love" with my mother, Marion Zimmer Bradley. He felt deeply of the rightness of his position, and used arguments from the book to try to convince the judge at his two trials for child molesting. A few of Marion Bradley's books have pedophilic themes; among them "The Catch Trap" and it is interesting to read her works with awareness of her involvement in these issues. It is sad that Walter Breen was so unaware of the pain he caused to his many victims. He was afflicted with paranoid schizophrenia which meant he had a fixed system of delusions which were unresponsive to conflicting data (like the objections of his child-victims!!) When he was sentenced to thirteen years in San Quentin, for the forcible rape of a seven-year-old child, among other charges, he had already been diagnosed with terminal cancer and given only a month to live. He was considered too dangerous to even be allowed into a hospice to die! He was so charismatic in life that his friends were widely in favor of finding a way to discredit his victims, and many were loyal to him to the end, even the ones who knew the truth about his crimes.
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Written by the author in 1965,
This review is from: Greek love, (Hardcover)
Greek Love is the first literary, historical, psychological and sociological study of boy-love ever to appear.Up to now, specialists in sexology have been either too confused to say anything of relevance, or too scared to commit it to print! Such authorities as Stekel, Krafft-Ebing, Bergler, George W. Henry, Ulrichs, Carpenter, Haverlock Ellis, and Freud managed to write volumes about other sexual practices, but they betrayed no real understanding of what makes a man love a boy. The author of Greek Love believes that boy-love is a potential social force for good. In Ancient Greece, it was closely bound up with the highest ethical and philosophical ideals. Therefore, we must seriously consider the possibility that boy-love can be a forece for good right now, in our own country. Greek Love is refreshing to read. The author does not affect the modern pseudo-objectivity that is so often a coverup for moral vacillation. Though he treats the subject fairly, he makes no attempt to conceal his pro-sexual orientation. Following is the table of contents: I. Theory and Practice 1. Objectives 2. Some common Objections Answered 3. Greek Love as a Social Problem 4. Greek Love as a Solution to a Social Problem 5. The Theory and Practice of Love 6. Sexual Aspects of Greek Love 7. Some uncomplicated Greek Love Affairs 8. Some Difficult Greek Love Affairs II. History and Literature 9. Historical Synopsis 10. Boy-love in Ancient Greece 11. Boy-love in Ancient Rome 12. Boy-love in the Middle Ages 13. Boy-love in the Renaissance 14. Boy-love in the Restoration, Enlightement, Romantic Period 15. Boy-love in the 19th Century 16. The 20th Century -- Divergent Traditions Postscript by Dr. Albert Ellis Rebuttal by J. Z. Eglinton 15. Boy-love in Ancient
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