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Edward Perry Warren's three-volume A Defence of Uranian Love, written under his pseudonym Arthur Lyon Raile and privately printed in 1928-1930, can be judiciously labelled the premier paederastic apologia in the language. Warren always and rightly called this work his magnum opus: it is the clearest elucidation of the motives that lay behind his acquisition of Graeco-Roman antiquities for the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and other prominent collections. Warren's acquisition practices converted those antiquities into a paederastic evangel, as he himself declares, and his Defence is intimately woven into this lifelong, evangelistic mission. My verses and my prose, writes Warren, advocate a morality, but it is not the current morality in certain matters. This is understatement at its most playful, for Warren's Defence is a detailed map to a Utopia where Grecian grandeur is restored, and the Christian sublime, all but banished; where masculine virtues topple the feminine that have mistakenly led to democracy, sexual purity, and feminism; where aristocracy, nobleness, and male supremacy establish a civilisation in which Nietzsche would have found himself at home; and where paederasty, in the form familiar to the ancient Spartans, could and needs must flourish. For, according to Warren, Love (in this case, Boy-love) can revive the old Hellenic day. It is this revival - this veritable Renaissance of Paederasty -that Warren's elaborate apologia aims to begin, by reminding Western culture of what it has lost or only forgotten: a sacral Boy-love and its accompanying traditions.

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