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floatingleaf) wrote2008-09-22 09:30 pm
floatingleaf) wrote2008-09-22 09:30 pm
and now for something completely different
Okay... here is a question to anyone on my flist who feels inclined to discuss a controversial topic. What is your reaction to the sight of two teenage boys making out? And by 'teenage' I do not mean over 18 - since I'm pretty sure I know how almost everyone on my flist would react to that.:P I mean barely teenage - as in somewhere around 13, perhaps. In other words, clearly below the age of consent by even the most liberal standards.
What prompted this, you may ask. Well... I just saw another strange little movie via Netflix - Danish, made in the seventies, about a group of boarding school kids coming to terms with their sexuality. It is very sweet and endearing, if not extremely realistic (you know, flower power, love and acceptance all around, and no one really gives a fuck about the strict headmaster who says it's not okay to have pornographic pictures all over the dorm room walls). And the main storyline revolves around these two very young boys who are clearly falling in love with each other. The older one of the two couldn't possibly be more than 15 - the younger one... I don't know. I would guess 11-13, at the most. And before you ask - yes, he does remind me a bit of baby!Viggo. Or baby!Legolas, if you will (almost everyone in that movie looks incredibly skinny and somehow elflike, btw - long hair was the norm in the seventies, you know). And the emotional intensity of their relationship is so totally believable, it really makes you wonder if kids can be such damn good actors, you know?... Anyway... nothing really sexual happens between them, but there is this one scene where they cuddle and kiss - and I keep thinking that perhaps it should disturb me (they're children, for God's sake!), but instead it just makes me MELT. There is such immense tenderness to it, such speechless wonder - they're both so innocent and eager and just GLOWING with the pure, simple happiness of being together. I don't doubt that most people (well... most open-minded people, at least) would find that image rather touching - but does the fact that I also find it extremely erotic make me a pedophile?... Not that I would really want that scene to go much further, or be anything other than a spectator - but the very fact that I keep replaying it in my mind makes me wonder. Maybe it's not so much about being attracted to children per se, but rather about wanting to identify with them, to reclaim the intensity of discovering love and desire for the first time?... I do hope that is indeed the case. But I'm really curious what other people might think. *ponders*
What prompted this, you may ask. Well... I just saw another strange little movie via Netflix - Danish, made in the seventies, about a group of boarding school kids coming to terms with their sexuality. It is very sweet and endearing, if not extremely realistic (you know, flower power, love and acceptance all around, and no one really gives a fuck about the strict headmaster who says it's not okay to have pornographic pictures all over the dorm room walls). And the main storyline revolves around these two very young boys who are clearly falling in love with each other. The older one of the two couldn't possibly be more than 15 - the younger one... I don't know. I would guess 11-13, at the most. And before you ask - yes, he does remind me a bit of baby!Viggo. Or baby!Legolas, if you will (almost everyone in that movie looks incredibly skinny and somehow elflike, btw - long hair was the norm in the seventies, you know). And the emotional intensity of their relationship is so totally believable, it really makes you wonder if kids can be such damn good actors, you know?... Anyway... nothing really sexual happens between them, but there is this one scene where they cuddle and kiss - and I keep thinking that perhaps it should disturb me (they're children, for God's sake!), but instead it just makes me MELT. There is such immense tenderness to it, such speechless wonder - they're both so innocent and eager and just GLOWING with the pure, simple happiness of being together. I don't doubt that most people (well... most open-minded people, at least) would find that image rather touching - but does the fact that I also find it extremely erotic make me a pedophile?... Not that I would really want that scene to go much further, or be anything other than a spectator - but the very fact that I keep replaying it in my mind makes me wonder. Maybe it's not so much about being attracted to children per se, but rather about wanting to identify with them, to reclaim the intensity of discovering love and desire for the first time?... I do hope that is indeed the case. But I'm really curious what other people might think. *ponders*