7. Greek Love and Greek Lovers

1. Conversation between the author and Senior Constable David Jeffries, November, 1980. [Back] 

2. Eglinton, J. Z., Greek Love, Spearman, London, p.483. [Back] 

3. Most paedophiles have a preference though for either children or adolescents and will have an age or age group that they find most attractive. However, they will vary their age interest considerably according to the available parties, physical characteristics of the boys/youths and other factors. Osborne’s preference was for youths aged between 13 and 15 years, although he related often to younger and older males. [Back] 

4. Eglinton,.J. Z., op. cit., p. 486. [Back] 

5. Hyde, W. M., Oscar Wilde: A Biography, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, New York, 1975, p.293. [Back] 

6. Ibid, p.293. [Back] 

7. The Revere case is discus~ed in detail in Willenbecher, T. ‘A letter from Boston’ Christopher Street, March, 1978, pp.53—56. [Back] 

8. Ibid, p.53. [Back] 

9. Willenbecher, T., op. cit., p. S3. [Back] 

10. ‘Men Loving Boys Loving Men’, The Body Politic 1979, pp. 14-20. [Back] 

11. Sydney Morning Herald, 16 March 1979. [Back] 

12. Ibid. [Back] 

13. Sydney Morning Herald, op. cit. [Back] 

14. Ibid. [Back] 

15. This was told to me by a Queensland police officer who was also involved in the arrest. [Back] 

16. These examples are given in Eglinton, J. Z., op. cit., pp.230—275. [Back] 

17. Lloyd, R., Playland, Quartet, London, 1979, p.65. [Back] 

18. Ibid., p.65. [Back] 

19. Eglinton,J. Z., op. cit., pp.231—232. [Back] 

20. Ibid., pp.230-275. [Back] 

21. Lloyd, R., op cit., pp.65-68 [Back] 

22. Eglinton, ~. Z., op. cit., p.292-293. [Back] 

23. Pomeroy, W., Dr Kinsey and the Institute for Sex Research, Signet, New York, 1972, p.423. [Back] 

24. Ibid., p.426. [Back] 

25. Ibid., p.423. [Back] 

26. Watson, L., Campaign, April, 1980, p.14. [Back] 

27. Davenport, W. H., ‘Sex in Cross-Cultural Perspective’ in Beach, FA. (ed) Human Sexuality in Four Perspectives, The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1977, pp.153—157. [Back] 

28. Ibid., p.155. [Back] 

29. An excellent account of the history of dangerousness can be found in Szasz, T., Law, Liberty and Psychiatry, Macmillan, New York, 1963. [Back] 

30. For a detailed discussion on this point see Wilson, P. R., in Bates, E. and Wilson P. R., Mental Disorder or Madness, University of Queensland Press, 1979, pp.75-93. [Back] 

31. Monahan, J. and Geis, G., ‘Controlling Dangerous People’, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, 423, 1976 pp.145—151. [Back] 

32. Szasz, T., op. cit., p.58. [Back] 

33. See Ellis in Eglinton, J. Z., op. cit., pp.429—438. [Back] 

34. Storr, A. J., Sexual Deviation, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1964. [Back] 

35. West, D. J., Homosexuality Re-examined, Duckworth, London, 1977. [Back] 

36. Stewart, A., Sandel, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1968. [Back] 

37. Gide, A., The Immoralist, translated by Dorothy Bussy, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1960. [Back] 

38. Du Maurier, D., ‘Ganymede’ in The Breaking Point, Doubleday, New York, 1959. [Back] 

39. Davidson, M., The World, The Flesh and Myself The Quality Book Club, London, 1962. [Back] 

40. Kramer, W., (ed) Forbidden Love. The Normal and Abnormal Love of Children, Sheldon Press, London, 1976. [Back] 

41. Drew, D. and Drake, T., Boys for Sale, Brown Book Company, Farmingdale, New York, 1969. [Back] 

42. O’Carroll, T., Paedophilia. The Radical Case, Peter Owen, London, 1981. [Back]