May 15, 2006 20:55
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
"Age-stratified male-male sexual relations in Islamic societies have lacked the pedagogical warrant (rationalization) exemplified in ancient Greece and, until recently, New Guinea, in which the boy 'graduates' through sexual service into recognition of his full development to adult manhood (see Herdt, 1984). The pleasure of the man was and is the justification for Muslims anally penetrating boys. The culturally appropriate basis for desiring boys is their beauty, not their incipient masculinity."
~Sociolegal Control of Homosexuality: A Multi-Nation Comparison
Edited by Donald J. West and Richard Green