Should we reinvent the ancient Greeks?
Robert Dessaix is one of the great Australian writers. His travel books are masterpieces of warm and inclusive observation. His 2008 book Arabesques is, like the works of the great Greek travel writer Pausanias, a journey through places visited by earlier heroes. Not heroes I suppose, but perhaps giants like the literary giants Oscar Wilde and Andre Gide. These two writers visited Algeria in the 1890s, and it was there that Wilde apparently corrupted Gide into having sex with a young boy. The morals of underage sex are not canvassed by Dessaix. It is as if the prostitution of young boys was ...
Source: neoskosmos.com