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格奧爾格ˇ克裏斯托夫ˇ利希滕貝格（1742-1799
是德國哥廷根大學的一位物理學、數學和天文學教授。他富於睿智的格言今天仍被廣泛傳誦。1777年，他遇到了名叫瑪麗婭ˇ絲恰德（Maria
Stechard）的13歲女孩，並把她接到了家裏，後來成了他的女傭和情人。瑪麗婭死時才18歲。 |
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
(1742-1799) was a professor of physics, mathematics, and astronomy at the University of Göttingen, Germany. His witty aphorisms are still widely read today. In 1777, he met the 13-year old Maria Stechard and took her into his home where she became his housemaid and lover. She died at the age of 18. |
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雖然西方國家長久以來一直反對與兒童的性接觸，但是在往昔的時光裏，人們見得到成人與青少年的性接觸。畢竟，在過去的許多文化中，女孩一達到青春期就會嫁人。另一方面，在中國古代，“少兒新郎官（child
bridegroom）”可能會娶一名成年女人，與她同床共枕，而且他一有性反應就開始與她有性交[1]。在18世紀的德國，對眾望所歸的大學教授格奧爾格ˇ克裏斯托夫ˇ利希滕貝格（Georg
Christoph Lichtenberg）來說，他要與13歲的女孩同居仍是可能的[2]。在20世紀，有兩部文學名著為少男少女們描寫過成人充滿情欲的戀愛故事。在曼恩（Mann）的《魂斷威尼斯》（Death
in Venice）裏，性欲的對象是一名14歲男孩，在那布科夫（Nabokov）的《羅麗塔》（Lolita）裏，情欲對象則是一位元12歲女孩[3]。與他們戀愛的成年男人根本就沒有被描述成怪物，而是被刻畫成值得讀者同情的悲劇式人物。1970年代和1980年代早期，在美國和其他國家甚至見到了第一次試圖把愛慕男孩的男人組織起來，不過他們不久就遭到了強烈的抨擊，甚至從“同志解放運動”這樣的組織也發出了反對的呼聲。然而，1980年代早期，瑞士一位電影導演仍就得到了官方財政支援，拍攝了一部在羅馬發生的成年男人與一名13歲妓男的風流韻事的半記錄性質的電影。該部電影隨後在一個電影節中贏得了天主教評委會的好評[4]。
不過，從那時候開始，西方公眾的觀點經歷了激劇的變化。如今，任何這樣的關係都會遭到指責。甚至，在許多國家裏都是犯罪行為，而且捲入這種關係的成人既不能指望從法庭也不能期待從大眾社會得到哪怕一丁點兒的同情。
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Adult Sexual Contact with Children:
Historical Notes 2
While Western countries have long disapproved of sexual contact with children, such contact with young adolescents has usually been seen in a different light. After all, in many cultures of the past, girls were married as soon as they reached puberty. In ancient China, on the other hand, a “child bridegroom” could marry an adult woman, share her bed, and begin sexual intercourse with her as soon as his sexual response allowed it
1. . In 18th-century Germany it was still possible for the highly respected university professor
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg to live with a 13-year old girl
2. . In the 20th century, two literary masterpieces described the passionate love of adult men for someone very young. In Mann’s
“Death in Venice”, the object of desire is a 14-year old boy; in Nabokov’s"Lolita"it is a 12-year old girl
3. . The men who are in love with them are not at all portrayed as monsters, but as tragic figures deserving the reader’s compassion. The 1970s and early 1980s even saw the first attempts in the USA and other countries to organize men who loved boys, but they soon met with a great deal of hostility, even from the “gay liberation movement”. Nevertheless, in the early 1980s, a Swiss film director still received official financial support for a semi-documentary about his love affair with a 13-year old male prostitute in Rome. The film then won the praises of a Catholic jury at a film festival
4. .
Since that time, however, Western public opinion has undergone a dramatic change. Today, any such relationships are severely condemned. Indeed, in many countries they are crimes, and the adults involved cannot expect the slightest sympathy either from the courts or from society at large.
1. See the comment by M.L.Ng
here.
2. See the the book by Gert Hoffmann, Die kleine Stechardin 1999, Engl. “Lichtenberg and the Little Flower Girl”, W.W. Norton, 2004
3. Thomas Mann, “Death in Venice” 1912 (Film by Luchino Visconti 1971and opera by Benjamin Britten 1973); Vladimir Nabokov “Lolita” 1955 (Film by Stanley Kubrick 1963)
4. “Er moretto”, a film by Simon Bischoff 1985
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