Male Intergenerational Intimacy: Historical, Socio-Psychological, and Legal Perspectives

This controversial new volume is one of the first attempts to produce an accurate, non-biased look at man-boy relationships. Through historical and ethnological examples from different times and places, experts document and further the discussion about the place of man-boy relationships in contemporary Western society. Male Intergenerational Intimacy is a courageous attempt to go beyond almost universal taboos against discussing pedophilia, and in doing so, this insightful book contributes greatly to the documentation of the diversity of the phenomenon and establishes a climate in which a less emotional and a more open and scholarly discussion is possible.