Attachment

"Males who have not experienced secure attachment may be vulnerable to placating intimacy needs by engaging in pedophilic behaviour(Ward, Hudson,&Marshall, 1996), particularly when interpersonal stressors such as relationship dissolution, rejection, and separation threaten their intimacy needs."

"Pedophiles may be characterised by different styles of insecure attachment [...] and it is possible that being sexually abused in childhood may contribute to the development of attachment insecurity."

"Attachment theory proposes that the person who is securely attached is more resilient to developmental stressors than the insecurely attached person (Masten & O’Connor, 1989). From this perspective, the current study has produced evidence that secure attachment is salient to breaking the link between being abused and progressing to sexually offending against children. The current findings provide some explanation as to why some victims become offenders and some do not."

Adult Attachment Style and Pedophilia: A Developmental Perspective, Gary A. Sawle, Jon Kear-Colwell. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 2001.

Cruz

Conferência de imprensa de Carlos Cruz, hoje em Lisboa, fotografada por José Pedro Tomaz.

Ragazzi di vita

“There is nothing new or novel about representations which align those who occupy certain social positions with a particular type of sexual practice or sexuality. [...] The homoeroticization of working-class subjects can be found in historical representations as diverse as the 19th-century political writings of Edward Carpenter on class and same-sex love [...], E.M. Forster’s literary depiction of cross-class desire in Maurice, and the visual imagery employed in Tom of Finland.

[...]

Representations of chavs and scallies share a number of common features with most representations of working-class sexuality. Most notably they fix particular sexual attributes to persons and bodies through the notion of excess and vulgarity (Skeggs, 1997, 2004). The working class are often depicted as all body (Stallybrass and White, 1986) – bodies which house sexual/biological drives not entirely amenable to bourgeois codes of civility. In representations of chav masculinity, like in many representations from Victorian society onwards, working-class sexuality is depicted as rampant, immoral and animalistic [...].

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The working class has always been viewed by middle-class observers [...] with a disgusted fascination because they function as repositories for so many middle-class fears. Those ‘hard Essex lads’ which figure so prominently in the representations under discussion here perfectly express the relationship between fear, anxiety, fascination and desire. They are ‘hard’ and therefore they are potentially dangerous; yet they have a fascination precisely because they symbolize all that is ‘other’ to middle-class life.

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The most pernicious aspect of this process is that while the male chav has value in one context, value created by his use as a sexual object, such value is based on a continual assertion of his worthlessness. The chav remains an object – before, during and after his use – of disgust, filth and repudiation.”

Paul Johnson (University of Surrey), “Rude Boys”: The Homosexual Eroticization of Class. Sociology, 2008, 42: 65.

imagem: Franco Citti em "Accattone", de Pasolini

A orientação do juiz

1 - "[Los Angeles] Times Assistant Managing Editor David Lauter, who oversees California coverage, responded that the fact that Walker is gay is well-known in San Francisco legal circles. Walker attends public functions with his male partner." Aqui

2 - "I disagree with Times Assistant Managing Editor David Lauter's claim that the sexual orientation of Northern District of California Chief Judge Vaughn Walker is relevant to the paper's reporting on the federal Proposition 8 case Walker adjudicated. [...] This is a double standard that undermines our judicial system and legitimizes a presumption that a gay judge's sexual orientation makes his or her decisions suspect in a case regarding same-sex equal rights when no such presumption exists for heterosexual judges." Aqui

Nesse tempo

"Nesse tempo, as praias eram prudentes e puritanas. Mas foi lá que aprendi a olhar um corpo, o seu erguer, o seu andar, o seu crescer, o seu clarão contra o clarão do sol. Foi aí que descobri, sob o mundo das aparências, o mundo das essências. Nesse tempo, a praia tinha barracas e grutas desertas. Tudo ali podia acontecer na rapidez com que acontecia. O prazer é vagaroso, mas o desejo é rápido. Neste pêndulo, que vai da pressa à lentidão, tudo era possível." 

José Manuel dos Santos

Garrel vs. Sagat

"A masculinidade urbana de Garrel vem dar lugar à masculinidade telúrica de Sagat. Inevitável se torna a comparação. Onde Garrel era o boy next door Sagat é um garnacho. Onde Garrel encenava o cosmopolita MP3 atacado pela depressão da carruagem do metro, Sagat personifica o suburbano canalha e carente. O primeiro era real e palpável, o segundo é só fantasmático. Sem deixar de ser vulnerável."

Aqui

O crime de Ray Gosling II

"A BBC presenter accused of wasting police time over claims that he killed a former lover dying of Aids admitted today that his apparent confession "got out of hand". Ray Gosling, 70, could be jailed for up to six months after prosecutors said they believe he lied during a documentary on death and dying."

Aqui e aqui.