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Note some of the editors' names are in red. These ''were'' eventually banned from the project (one of them because he tried to form a relationship with a 12-year old boy who was editing Wikipedia.
Note some of the editors' names are in red. These ''were'' eventually banned from the project (one of them because he tried to form a relationship with a 12-year old boy who was editing Wikipedia.
== The History of Homosexuality ==
One particularly tenacious group of editors are followers of the Left Coast academic [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Armstrong_Percy_III William Percy]. Percy has an intriguing thesis: that the history of homosexuality is the history of pederasty. According to him, the historical record of homosexuality is a history of older men taking young boys (between the age of 12 and 17, according to the definition he gives) as lovers. Thus Homosexual history has been misrepresented. Paedophilia is central to the real history of homosexuality - and by implication to its true nature; modern 'gay rights' theory has marginalised it.
It is a view enthusiastically adopted by the American paedophile rights assocation NAMBLA. In an [http://www.nambla.org/pederasty.htm essay] on their website, David Thorstad argues that "Pederasty is the main form that male homosexuality has acquired throughout Western civilization - and not only in the West! Pederasty is inseparable from the high points of Western culture - ancient Greece and the Renaissance [...] in the late nineteenth century, pederasty was an integral part of the new gay movement", and uses this argument to justify his cry for "the liberation and empowerment of young people", and "the liberation of children, women, boy-lovers, and homosexuals in general", and to justify his complaint that the gay liberation movement has "increasingly sought to marginalize even demonize cross-generational love".
A corollary is that the modern liberal rights view of homosexuality (i.e. as essentially consensual, governed by same ethical considerations as heterosexual relations) is a historical aberration. The advocates of Percy's viewpoint argue for a 'Golden Age' of pederasty before the growth of the Judaic religions in Europe. The paradigm was Greek culture, in which older men took young boys in the role of benevolent guardian and mentor. Paedophiliac relations accepted in all societies and cultures. The 'fall' occurred with the advent of Judaic morals (and particular Christian Catholic morality), from which our modern liberal view is derived.
This is an intriguing idea, and has all sorts of implications that it is best not to follow up here. I suspect it is not true if Percy's ability as a medieval historian is anything to judge by (his account of medieval philosophy is skewed and idiosyncratic, verging on travesty). In any case, this strange view should have no place in a project that was not designed for 'original research', and whose policies certainly prohibit it.
Yet there are many advocates of this view editing Wikipedia, and you will find it stated or implied in many places. I could give a hundred examples of this from the 'diffs' or edit-differences that are freely available to any member of the public who visits the Wikipedia website.
== Historical pederastic couples ==
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Historical_pederastic_couples
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Historical_pederastic_couples&oldid=227420613 old version of talk page.
== Block of Phdarts and Peter Damian ==
== Block of Phdarts and Peter Damian ==