Catamites

"Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature."

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.), De Legibus, Book 1, Chapter 16, § 45.

I remember reading Cicero as a sophomore in high school almost 40 years ago. I was reading about the attendance at games and his description of "subtle" seduction. Pederasts and others were commonly able to practice their games in public. It was Cicero that was ambushed and murdered by Roman soldiers by the direction of his political opponent Mark Anthony. He lived in a world where vice and virtue were defined by their outcomes and often a were a practical de facto matter of who was in power at any given moment.

Our society has reached a point where it is at least obvious that some have lost a sense of protecting those who cannot protect themselves, where the appeal to natural law is moot and moral law passé and the Bible verboten. One doctor I talked with about trauma to people from sexual abuse had a theory about it. He attributed it to people pressure due to the numbers of us and how we react to it. There may be some truth to that but I do not think it is the deciding factor. Taking liberties with moral law that prohibits sexual indiscretion has a lot to do with it. Several years ago the homosexual community felt as though they had the green light to forge ahead with their goals of normalizing practices common to them. The different organizations allowed North American Man Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) to speak out for their supposed "rights" to have sex with children at will.

The world that does not recognize the Bible as of any particular interest in matters of faith and morals seems to condone what is right in their own eyes. There was an outcry against pedophilia and backlash against the inclusion of it as a right to be derived from association with the homosexual community and the different homosexual organizations decided not to be quite so inclusive as to embrace the cause of those who practice pedophilia. One active member of NAMBLA had a web site declaring certain politicians as being worthy of assassination due to their narrow views. The press recently mocked President Bush because he thinks homosexuality is a sin. The past few years has seen the press suppress stories that put homosexuals in a bad light, such as the trial of two men who brutally raped, tortured, and murdered a 14 year old boy. The press has a protective bent toward homosexuals due to their rejection as having a valid sexual preference. Thinking murder of children at the hands of gays would be frowned upon by Narrow thinkers was probably correct. Horrific stories of child abuse by heterosexuals does not seem to catch much attention unless the story is sensational. The way we do not protect those who cannot protect themselves does not seem to gain a lot of attention.

The trafficking of humans as sex slaves in the world is a huge industry, taking women and children from areas where they are vulnerable to abduction or being offered dubious gains they are sold as slaves. It flourishes where there is poverty and a breakdown of moral order or at least the lack of means to enforce order. The lights of our age are deciding that we in the United States need to join in the way of Europe and other continents where many wink at some things such as this. In fact human trafficking is increasing to the extent that it is a problem here in the United States and many end up as sex slaves. A study published by the CIA asserted in 1999 that THERE ARE 45,000 TO 50,000 WOMEN AND CHILDREN BROUGHT TO THE USA AS SLAVES EVERY YEAR, many designated to be sex slaves and end up dead prematurely.

AMY O'NEILL RICHARD: International Trafficking in Women to the United States: A Contemporary Manifestation of Slavery and Organized Crime