Male age-discrepant intergenerational sexualities and relationships

Face-to-face and CMC [Computer - Mediated - Communication] respondents asserted a strong commitment to a boylover orientation, one largely present throughout most of their life-course. They presented variable degrees of community identification from magazine subscription, to active participation in Conferences. In terms of the relational dynamics within MADIS [Male Age-Discrepant Intergenerational Sexualities and Relationships], professional CSA [Child Sexual Abuse] and sex offender constructs were contested. Instead, boylovers stressed the positive and beneficial aspects of their attraction to boys, and criticised various interest groups for peddling unsubstantiated myths about boylove.

In contrast to much of the literature and research, extolling the promise of substantive and positive transformation for sexual minorities (as individual, partnerships and within communities), boylover narratives indicate that this is only partial. Instead such accounts remain firmly embedded within modernist discourses of oppression, alienation, witch-hunts, and legal sanctions.

source: Article 'Male age-discrepant intergenerational sexualities and relationships' by Richard Yuill; PhD Thesis; theses.gla.ac.uk/2795/1/2004YuillPhdv1.pdf; University of Glasgow; 2004