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> Hmm. He should totally look up the term pederasty and think about it he wants to go back to those times!!

There is research that says that in the vast majority of cases, pederasty is completely harmless (Rind et al, among other articles). You have to think from a completely different mindset if you are to understand why it was once common and why it was seen as beneficial for both parties. Human societies have historically been more patriarchal than matriarchal, and young girls have always been valued for their beauty and reproductive potential, and were never really expected to become independent and self-sufficient. Young boys, on the other hand, often needed help from adult men in order to survive or become successful in societies with rampant poverty, warfare, and intramale competition. Young boys tend to be more sexually fluid and many of them have evolved a psychological capacity for being in sexual relationships with adult men.

>  During peripubescence, boys become decidedly team-oriented and readily hero-worship older males, whereas by later adolescence a firm sense of independence generally emerges in them (Neill, 2009; Weisfeld & Billings, 1988). As well, nonclinical empirical research indicates that, when they have not absorbed the moral negatives about sex with other males or with older males, boys can be open to pederastic relations until later adolescence, at which point they usually lose all interest in favor of pursuing females (e.g., Lautmann, 1994; Money & Weinrich, 1983; Rossman, 1976; Tindall, 1978). ([source](https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315432458-7/pederasty-integration-empirical-historical-sociological-cross-cultural-cross-species-evolutionary-perspectives-cross-cultural-cross-species-evolutionary-perspectives-bruce-rind))

The commonly-held belief, until recent decades, that homosexuality was just a phase during childhood and adolescence, is likely due to a flawed understanding of these facts. If boys are allowed to (not only legally but also culturally), I believe most prepubescent and pubescent boys are likely to desire experimenting with the homoerotic role.

Of course, something like this wouldn't be compatible with today's feminist culture where child/adult sexual relationships are seen as highly negative and where boys have been culturally conditioned into believing that men who desire them are creeps rather than potential allies. The harm from child/adult sex usually comes from cultural conditioning and negative family factors rather than the act itself. If you're in a society where it's completely normal, your parents encourage it, and many of your older male relatives have gone through the same thing, and you enjoy it and view it as a positive experience, then it is definitely not classifiable as abuse, at least in the traditional sense of the word.

Before modern negative attitudes about pedophilia became prevalent, boys were even less likely than girls to be traumatized by sexual contact with adult men:

> As early as 1937, Lauretta Bender and A. Blau (“The reaction of children to sexual relations with adults”, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry) studied a group of 16 children ages 5 to 12 who had sexual contacts with adults, and examined this same group again in 1952 with A.L. Grugett. They found no problems which could reasonably be attributed to the sexual experiences. On the contrary, they concluded that children who have sexual experiences with adults frequently turn out to be “distinguished and unusually charming and attractive in their outward personalities.”

> In 1956, American investigator Judson T. Landis (“Experiences of 500 Children with Adult Sexual Deviations") had come to the same results. Of 1800 students at the University of California, 30% of the boys and 35% of the girls had had such experiences. **Of those who had, only 2.2% of the girls and only 0.4% of the boys thought themselves to have suffered from bad after-effects**, but Landis concluded that even in these few cases the sexual experience had not been at the origin of the less desirable evolution, which was rather a symptom of an already existing trouble. With regard to the negative effects, Landis stated: “ln general, the great majority of the victims seem to recover rather soon and to acquire few permanently wrong attitudes from the experience.”

> Esteemed Dutch jurist Edward Brongersma published his magnum opus “Loving Boys” during 1986 and 1990. In it, particularly the second volume, his research found that boys who had had long-term consensual relationships with men were better lovers, husbands and fathers than those who led a sexually sheltered childhood. They were also more outgoing, successful in their chosen field, had lower divorce rates and a higher average income than those who had no such experiences.

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