Have to say, I kinda recognise his character in folks I grew up alongside. And I recognise the kinds of predatory homosexual adults he describes: they were at every school I attended. Somehow the teen gay men and the adult gay men found each other. The rest of us kept our distance.
Don't agree with him on basically anything, but I think Milo is bright and I actually think he was misunderstood on the subject of paedophilia. It sounds like he was providing an inside insight into the reality from the viewpoint of a teen victim. I have never heard that perspective before. If anyone has a right to talk about such things, it is surely the grown-up version of such a person, having years of reflection behind him. Maybe listening to him is something we should do. Maybe he expresses a perspective from which we can learn, instead of just asserting a knee-jerk self-righteousness about the subject. Unless we have walked in his shoes.
I dunno. He's addressing a taboo. And trying to say something new. Perhaps some things cannot be talked about. But it is a brave thing to try to do. I can see why a person wants to escape the straitjacket of moral conformity, saying "this was my experience and it wasn't exactly the way it is usually described in polite society."
Anyone who has read or seen the movie Lolita has some idea of a parallel. Milo provides a gay reality version of the same story but from the victim's perspective. A somewhat more moral view than Nabokov's, I would say.
Don't know much about the guy otherwise. Strange news story.
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