/lit/ - Literature

You'd be surprised given the social climate of today but back in those days pedophilia just didn't have that same degree of absolute condemnation surrounding it. Back in the late 19th and early 20th centuries guys like Thomas Mann and Andre Gide wrote open, rather transparently autobiographical paeans to pederasty without significant backlash. The fact that Oscar Wilde fucked some boys as low as the age of 12 didn't affect his trial so much as the fact that he was 'corrupting' and fucking males in general. Before 1885 the age of consent in Victorian Britain had been 13.

>Sits down next to you at a salon
>Orders absinthe
>Places his staff against the counter and begins a tasteful application of Malmaison perfume to his person
>Recives his absinthe
>"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."
>Uses an old worn copy of "À rebours" as an coaster
>Glances at a passing rentboy
>Takes a sip of your champagne and looks at you seductively
>"Did you know that beauty and pleasure are the only two things worth writing about?"