>>>Pedophilia and homosexuality are not synonymous.
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>No, but they have one thing in common- having been a taboo.

So was interracial marriage. Today, for most of us, that's not even something we blink at.

>Homosexuality was once a taboo for scouts, but societal norms have changed and it is now accepted.
>Consensual sex between adults and children (if such a thing is possible) is still a taboo here in the US, but it is not in many other cultures and it has lots of precedence in our own.

The big difference is consent. Children cannot give consent.

>No one is sure but many think that Shakespeare's sonnets were written to one of the squeaky-voiced boys who played women in the Elizabethan theater before women were allowed on the stage (another taboo shattered!)
>One theory has the subject as young as 9 years old.
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>If the greatest writer in our history can do it, why not a scoutmaster?

I've never heard that theory. But same thing. Consent and the ability to give it matters.

Tamar