I don't condone Ginsberg and I don't agree with him or his general approach. However he was an advocate for "Free Speech" an actual "Free Speech Absolutist" he also did things for the sole purpose of getting attention and making people mad. Like I said I don't agree with any of that, but that's who he was.
Also there is an often not spoken about tend from the 1970s mainly in Europe that kind of softened and downplayed the damages caused by NAMBLA-type stuff. Back then just overall people tended to have more lax rules about older men and underage girls in "relationships" as well. We know better now and this is far from acceptable and the age of consent has gone up/there is more social taboo regarding this type of thing.
In the 1970s in and the US Europe you had all sorts of otherwise rational people jumping with pretty intensely horrible views regarding this subject.
To get a window into the thinking in Germany post war here is an example. Warring it's pretty horrible.
I don't condone Ginsberg and I don't agree with him or his general approach. However he was an advocate for "Free Speech" an actual "Free Speech Absolutist" he also did things for the sole purpose of getting attention and making people mad. Like I said I don't agree with any of that, but that's who he was.
Also there is an often not spoken about tend from the 1970s mainly in Europe that kind of softened and downplayed the damages caused by NAMBLA-type stuff. Back then just overall people tended to have more lax rules about older men and underage girls in "relationships" as well. We know better now and this is far from acceptable and the age of consent has gone up/there is more social taboo regarding this type of thing.
In the 1970s in and the US Europe you had all sorts of otherwise rational people jumping with pretty intensely horrible views regarding this subject.
To get a window into the thinking in Germany post war here is an example. Warring it's pretty horrible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Kentler