/lit/ - Literature

>Socrates
married a woman 40 years younger than him, groomed teenage boys
>Plato
wrote that “spiritual” love between men and boys was better than all other kinds of love
>Aristotle
said the ideal marrying age was 37 for men and 18 for women
>Sappho
groomed teenage girls
>Sophocles
multiple accounts of him having sex with boys and molesting cupbearers
>Julius Caesar
married a 13 year old girl and later a 17 year old
>Virgil
relationships with underage boys
>Saint Augustine
had a 10 year old fiancée
>Muhammad
married a 6 year old, had sex with her when she was 9
>Peter Abelard
groomed Heloise when she was 15
>Thomas More
married a 17 year old girl when he was 27
>Christopher Marlowe
flagrant pederast
>Cervantes
married a 15 year old girl
>Francis Bacon
had sex with underage boys
>Milton
married a 17 year old girl when he was 34
>Molière
married a 17 year old girl when he was 40
>Goethe
had sex with underage girls and boys
>Walt Whitman
relationship with 13 year old boy
>Henry David Thoreau
fell in love with an 11 year old boy and wrote a poem about it
>Edgar Allen Poe
married a 13 year old girl when he was 27
>Lewis Carroll
took inappropriate photographs of underage girls
>Charles Dickens
had an affair with an 18 year old girl when he was 45
>Oscar Wilde, Andre Gide, Gustave Flaubert
had sex with Algerian boy prostitutes
>Verlaine and Rimbaud
toxic age-gap relationship
>Leo Tolstoy
raped a female servant, married an 18 year old when he was 34
>WB Yeats
proposed to a girl he knew since she was 4
>Martin Heidegger
groomed Hannah Arendt when she was 19 and he was 35
>Henry James
wrote a story about man-boy love
>Thomas Mann
attracted to his own son, stalked a Polish shota around Venice and wrote a book about it
>Marcel Proust
wrote a short story called 'Pederasty' about wanting to live in a boy utopia
>WH Auden
relationship with 14 year old boy
>Sartre and Beauvoir
groomed teenage girls from the school Beauvoir taught at
>Foucault, Barthes, Sartre, Beauvoir, Deleuze, Derrida, Guattari, Lyotard, Althusser
signed petition to abolish the age of consent
>Allen Ginsberg, Camille Paglia, Samuel R. Delany
members of NAMBLA
>Pablo Neruda
self-confessed rapist
>JD Salinger
pedophile obsessed with loli feet, had relationships with teenagers as an old man
>William S. Burroughs
molested boys, killed his wife
>Lawrence Durrell
molested his daughter
>Arthur C. Clarke
molested boys in Sri Lanka
>Marion Zimmer Bradley
molested her own daughter and covered up for her pedophile husband

>america's national poet was a gay pedophile
lmaoooooooooo

>>18923555
Whatever you say Walt

What did Walt Whitman mean by this?

>>12748720
>/pol/tard reveals themselves as having never read Plato
cringe... when are the defenders of western civilisation going to get around to reading its foundational texts... you can blame translations, but when you read the greek originals you can't get around the presence of the words "pederastia", "eromenos" and "erastes" -- the root word being eros, rather than philia.
>>12748833
Your diminution of the erotic is modern rather than traditional. And Whitman literally dated a 13 year old boy. If you want to own the libs, bring up his pederasty rather than pretend he was some sexless sterile thing.
>I don't think the greeks were
How did they reproduce retard? Or do you mean that no Greek male ever had a sexual sensation in response to another Greek male? Read Plato's dialogue Charmides. Part of the dialogue's theme is demonstrated in Socrates not acting on the excitement he feels at seeing Charmides' attractive body behind his toga.

Poets disguise their ignorance and little babby philosophical ideas behind beautiful images and obscurity. They're also usually gay.