Reading for 2/14

I feel that I shortchanged someone last week by vetoing their suggestion that we read a few pieces on a touchy issue. So let’s do those this week and start up Perlman in two. The readings will concern children, their sexuality, and the potential limits of free love. We’ll look at a friend’s piece from the ‘80s on the topic and the response some anarchists made to it a few years ago, as well as read a few pieces from an old issue of AJODA (pp. 13-19 and all the pieces therein — “I was fifteen, she was forty-three”, “Girl Love”, “Liberating Sexuality”, “Sexuality and the mystique of innocence”, and “Save the Children”). Obviously we’ll be discussing some uncomfortable topics, perhaps even more so depending on yr experiences, so just be ready for that if you drop by.