“In the homosexual world, particularly, some of those relationships between younger boys and older men — the sort of ‘coming of age’ relationship — those relationships in which those older men help those young boys discover who they are and give them security and safety and provide them with love and a reliable, sort of rock, where they can’t speak to their parents.”
-Milo
What was edited out was his agreement with age if consent laws for sexual relationships.
I still suffer the “yuck” factor when I listen to those clips however.
Apparently he supports the same abuse that he says he received as a child. sad
They throw the word love around a lot. They don’t know what it means. They are predators always looking for more victims to destroy.
I’ll give Milo a pass on this one. I’m sure he wasn’t advocating pedophilia. And everybody slips up and he’s under intense scrutiny. His denial and explanation was very good too.
I am not going to stop reading and enjoying Milo, but this statement comes a bit close to the edge.
I was went to a Christmas party years ago at the home of a gay friend in San Francisco. Nice house, great food, charming crowd (I wasn’t the only woman or straight person there). Among the guests were a couple of older gay guys with what looked to be teenagers. They were acting like good dads, but it seemed possible to me that they were grooming the youngsters. Among other things, I wondered where they found those boys, were they homeless or fatherless?
Later, a gay fellow who had been a very good friend to me said, “If I told you what went on between (and among) gay guys behind closed doors, you wouldn’t like me any more.”
If you live in SF, and especially if you work in the arts, you have gay friends if you have any friends at all. But they’ll never be your best friends, more like charming, funny people you enjoy at parties.
I would never hesitate to read, or even have lunch with Milo. I’d go to his talk if he spoke at CPAC. And I hope he does.
Gross.
Be accurate and fair. Milo said on his Facebook page that
1) the term “boy” in homosexual jargon does not mean “underage” but is just a common term;
2) He has disavowed any and all sex with minors.
It’s important that we include all of the information on this.
Homosexuality would be rare if older queers didn’t recruit young victims.
That’s pretty sick if he said it .
“In the homosexual world, particularly, some of those relationships between younger boys and older men — the sort of ‘coming of age’ relationship — those relationships in which those older men help those young boys discover who they are and give them security and safety and provide them with love and a reliable, sort of rock, where they can’t speak to their parents.”
You mean like that coach up at Penn State, who went to prison for such “relationships”?
This was the same argument used by people to promote lowering the age of consent (or not raising it in states where it was like 12 or 14) ... that children in less than perfect homes had a means of escape by finding an older person to provide monetary and other support (in exchange for sex). This was seriously proposed as justification for lowering the age of consent for sex.
This is also the justification some make for sexual tourism ... that it helps extremely poor children alieviate extreme poverty.
They dance around it but what are proposing is prostitution for poor children (girls and boys) as a means to escape poverty or a bad home situation.
Yes it is practical and logically it has worked for some throughout history for the most destitute in society. Prostitution has always been a way for desperate people to keep themselves and their children from starving. But is this really something that we want to promote in society? Aren’t there better ways for society to help poor children or children in bad home environments or children in fear than sexual patronage?
I get what he was trying to say, and it sounds humane, but is it really? It’s historically the way things have happened so there is some tradition to it, and I think that’s what he was trying to say. As such it’s a valid area of discussion but I for one am not in favor of some traditions and historical precedents continuing. Was he proposing that? It is unclear from his quote.
Inter-generational sex, huh?
No thanks. Adult sexual exploitation of children is wrong, period.
Since Milo justifies and defends that, conservatives have no business legitimizing him.
If I was a gay man, this would go against everything I believe in.
Its bad enough liberals trash our values; its incomprehensible some conservatives would join them in demolishing them.
Like Mr. Wonderful says on “Shark Tank,” I’m out. When it comes to Milo and sick creeps like him.