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格奥尔格·克里斯托夫·利希滕贝格
(1742-1799)
是德国哥廷根大学的一位物理学、数学和天文学教授。他富于睿智的格言今天仍被广泛传诵。1777年，他遇到了名叫玛丽娅·丝恰德(Maria Stechard)的13岁女孩，并把她接到了家里，后来成了他的女佣和情人。玛丽娅死时才18岁。
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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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虽然西方国家长久以来一直反对与儿童的性接触，但是在往昔的时光里，人们见得到成人与青少年的性接触。毕竟，在过去的许多文化中，女孩一达到青春期就会嫁人。另一方面，在中国古代，“少儿新郎官（child
bridegroom）”可能会娶一名成年女人，与她同床共枕，而且他一有性反应就开始与她有性交[1]。在18世纪的德国，对众望所归的大学教授格奥尔格·克里斯托夫·利希滕贝格（Georg
Christoph Lichtenberg）来说，他要与13岁的女孩同居仍是可能的[2]。在20世纪，有两部文学名著为少男少女们描写过成人充满情欲的恋爱故事。在曼恩（Mann）的《魂断威尼斯》（Death
in Venice）里，性欲的对象是一名14岁男孩，在那布科夫（Nabokov）的《罗丽塔》（Lolita）里，情欲对象则是一位12岁女孩[3]。与他们恋爱的成年男人根本就没有被描述成怪物，而是被刻画成值得读者同情的悲剧式人物。1970年代和1980年代早期，在美国和其它国家甚至见到了第一次试图把爱慕男孩的男人组织起来，不过他们不久就遭到了强烈的抨击，甚至从“同志解放运动”这样的组织也发出了反对的呼声。然而，1980年代早期，瑞士一位电影导演仍就得到了官方财政支持，拍摄了一部在罗马发生的成年男人与一名13岁妓男的风流韵事的半记录性质的电影。该部电影随后在一个电影节中赢得了天主教评委会的好评[4]。
不过，从那时候开始，西方公众的观点经历了激剧的变化。如今，任何这样的关系都会遭到指责。甚至，在许多国家里都是犯罪行为，而且卷入这种关系的成人既不能指望从法庭也不能期待从大众社会得到哪怕一丁点儿的同情。
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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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