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82. See Theo Sandfort,
The Sexual Aspects of Paedophile Relations: The Experience of Twenty-Five Boys
(Amsterdam: Pan/Spartacus, 1982); Ehman, "Adult-Child Sex," 43639. For arguments in favor of man/boy love, see Tom O'Carroll,
Paedophilia: The Radical Case
(London: Peter Owen, 1980); interview by Guy Hocquenghem with David Thorstad in
Semiotext(e)
Special Large Type Series: "Loving Boys" (summer 1980).
83. See Weeks,
Sexuality and Its Discontents
, 227; also see Tom Reeves, "Loving Boys," in Tsang,
The Age Taboo
, 2728.
 
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84. See Weeks,
Sexuality and Its Discontents
, 23031; also see Califia, "Man/Boy Love and the Lesbian Movement"; Tuppy Owens,
The Betrayal of Youth: Radical Perspectives on Childhood Sexuality, Intergenerational Sex and the Sexual Oppression of Children and Young People
, ed. Warren Middleton (London: CL Publications, 1986); Joan Nestle,
A Restricted Country
(Ithaca, N.Y.: Firebrand Books, 1987); Nettie Pollard, "The Small Matter of Children," in
Bad Girls and Dirty Pictures: The Challenge to Reclaim Feminism
, ed. Alison Assiter and Avedon Carol (London: Pluto Press, 1993), 10511.
85. Cynthia Astuto and Pat Califia, "Being Weird Is Not Enough: How to Stay Healthy and Play Safe," in Samois,
Coming to Power
, 71. For further details on rules of dress and procedure, see Samois, ed.,
What Color Is My Handkerchief?: A Lesbian S/M Sexuality Reader
(Berkeley: Samois, 1979).
86. Astuto and Califia, "Being Weird Is Not Enough," 6972. For an honest and self-critical assessment of some of the difficulties in maintaining safe sex precautions in lesbian s/m sex, see Pat Califia, "Slipping," in
Melting Point
(Boston: Alyson Publications, 1993).
87. Rubin, "The Leather Menace," 2045; also see Califia, "A Personal View," 251.
88. See Califia, "Unraveling the Sexual Fringe"; Weeks,
Sexuality and Its Discontents
, 23738.
89. See Reeves, "Loving Boys."
90. For an excellent overview of the sex radical position on pedophilia, s/m, and other patterns of sexual difference, see Pat Califia,
Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex
(Pittsburgh: Cleis Press, 1994).
91. See McClintock, "Maid to Order," 22428; Judy Butler, "The Politics of S & M: The Politics of Dis-illusion," in Linden et al.,
Against Sadomasochism
, 172; Hoagland, ''Sadism, Masochism, and Lesbian-Feminism," 15860; Saxe, "Sadomasochism and Exclusion," 64; Julia Penelope, "The Illusion of Control: Sadomasochism and the Sexual Metaphors of Childhood,"
Lesbian Ethics
2, no. 3 (1987): 8494.
92. See Nichols, "Is Sadomasochism Feminist?," 143.
93. Vadas, "Reply to Patrick Hopkins," 160.
94. Saxe, "Sadomasochism and Exclusion," 6162; Griffin, "Sadomasochism and the Erosion of Self," 18687; also see Sheila Jeffreys, "Sado-masochism: The Erotic Cult of Fascism,"
Lesbian Ethics
2, no. 1 (1986): 6582; Bar On, "Feminism and Sadomasochism," 7980.
95. See Judy Butler on the s/m practitioner's "fundamental faith in the rightness of desire," in "The Politics of S & M," 171.

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