>>4003108I apologize if I made it seem like I was saying that any relationships between men and shos are inherently exploitative or abusive. That's not what I was trying to convey.
When I used the word "corrupt", I was using it to contrast with the notion of childish "purity" - adults are jaded with experience and knowledge in a way that children are not; any adult who interacts with a child is doing so from a fundamentally experienced (and thus, traumatized) perspective, which deeply affects the dynamics of the two parties. This is different from sho/sho relationships, which are usually characterized by inexperienced curiosity, and are, as a consequence, purer (that is, less weighed down by the things that come to castrate the adult mind - societal expectations, material stresses, individual traumas, etc).
>I think most onii-sans would actually be not so much adults but manchildren who are affected by adult life but are boys in heart and in that lies some beauty in how the sho can be a shield from the ills of the world or something like that. I hope you get what I mean.Youre right. Albeit the very fact that the man's shielding requires some sort of regression probably proves that his boyish heart is vitally different from the less-tainted heart of the sho.
I'm starting to think that maybe my original statement was too definitive, though. Perhaps the fact that the man is able to compare his hellish adult life to the love from his boy makes it purer, since it serves as a form of salvation.
