By Karl Andersson
The 1st factor of Destroyer journal dropped like a bomb in might 2006. For the 1st time because the Nineteen Seventies, a homosexual journal dared to overtly have fun the great thing about the teenage boy, in phrases and pictures.Reactions have been fierce. The Swedish LGBT institution cried out opposed to the journal, claiming it gave homosexual humans a foul identify. Neo-Nazis have been simply as disenchanted, and the Ombudsman for kids demanded a transformation within the legislation to make the journal unlawful. A police research was once instigated and Destroyer's editor Karl Andersson was once summoned to an interrogation.Gay Man's Worst good friend is not just the exciting tale of Europe's such a lot debatable homosexual journal, instructed from Stockholm, Prague and Berlin. it is also the tale of the homosexual stream within the twenty first century. The outraged reactions to Destroyer divulge hidden strength constructions and exhibit how homosexual identification has been progressively gotten smaller over contemporary a long time, except ever extra expressions of homosexuality.
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And some of the ads seem fishy. “Yes, some of the magazines that I urge people to send me – instead of throwing them away – are considered kiddie porn nowadays. But what is kiddie porn? Even Donatello’s David can be considered kiddie porn in some countries, and certainly Wilhelm von Gloeden’s pictures, which were even burnt in the fascist thirties. Nowadays the owners of these magazines burn them themselves in their homes. There is a red line running through these actions: pictures of teenage boys have been denounced by the society, and so for no other reason than that the observer is a man.
What I criticise is that the gay movement has chosen a strategy of presenting a safe image of LGBT persons, instead of demanding acceptance for the deviant, whatever it is, so long as it’s legal. The condemnation of NAMBLA has nothing to do with caring about children, but rather is about suppressing the most extreme expression of homosexuality. ” Don’t you agree with your critics’ basic moral demand that nude models should be over eighteen? “No, I think it’s absurd that boys under eighteen aren’t allowed to be depicted sexually, because of the expectation that they will be hurt by it.
This is despite the fact that young, beautiful boys historically made up a large part of gay culture. But now they are banned. Hairy muscle Marys are the ideal of today’s gay culture. The reason is of course that gay magazines, just like gay men, are afraid of being called paedophiles – which I’m guaranteed to be called myself, by the way. So what? ” The cover of the first, and as yet only, issue of Destroyer is graced by a boy who seems to be around fourteen years old. He could also be eighteen, but it is obvious that he’s supposed to look as young as possible.
