Suggestions of paedophilia
Dodgson’s friendships with young girls, together with his perceived lack of interest in romantic attachments to adult women, and psychological readings of his work – especially his photographs of nude or semi-nude girls[37] – have all led to speculation that he was a paedophile. This possibility has underpinned numerous modern interpretations of his life and work, particularly Dennis Potter’s play Alice and his screenplay for the motion picture, Dreamchild, and even more importantly Robert Wilson’s Alice, and a number of recent biographies, including Michael Bakewell’s Lewis Carroll: A Biography (1996), Donald Thomas’s Lewis Carroll: A Portrait with Background (1995), and Morton N. Cohen’s Lewis Carroll: A Biography (1995). All of these works assume that Dodgson was a paedophile, albeit perhaps a repressed and celibate one. Cohen claims Dodgson’s “sexual energies sought unconventional outlets”, and further writes:
We cannot know to what extent sexual urges lay behind Charles’s preference for drawing and photographing children in the nude. He contended the preference was entirely aesthetic. But given his emotional attachment to children as well as his aesthetic appreciation of their forms, his assertion that his interest was strictly artistic is naïve. He probably felt more than he dared acknowledge, even to himself.[37]
Cohen notes that Dodgson “apparently convinced many of his friends that his attachment to the nude female child form was free of any eroticism”, but adds that “later generations look beneath the surface” (p. 229).
Cohen and other biographers argue that Dodgson may have wanted to marry the 11-year-old Alice Liddell, and that this was the cause of the unexplained “break” with the family in June 1863.[38] But there has never been significant evidence to support the idea, and the “cut pages in diary document” (see above) implies that the 1863 “break” had little to do with Alice, but was perhaps connected with rumors involving her older sister Lorina, or possibly their governess.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll
Yeah right. Modern day analysts telling you what someone was or was not whom they have NEVER even interviewed.
Dodgson was a brilliant mathematician. The times were different than today. Adults if they chose could interact with children without the whole world accusing them of being a perv.
The modern analysts can go pound sand....