“But now, less than 18 months after Vidal passed into history, he is himself subject to the most reputation-destructive scuttlebutt there is: the suggestion that he may have been a paedophile.”
Hmmm. What would give them that idea?
“And Vidal more or less admitted it himself, writing in his memoir Palimpsest that he was “attracted to adolescent males”.
Damn fine reporting work going on here. Damn fine.
With the exception of the last few decades, the norm for homosexual behavior around the world and throughout history has been between an adolescent male and an older man.
In ancient Greece and most other places, once a boy hit full adulthood continued sexual relations with him was considered perverted and/or weird. Same is true today in Afghanistan and many other places that never heard of PC.