title: Inventing the Pedophile in the Journal of Homosexuality.
abstract: This article serves as one of the supplementary pieces of this special issue on "Mapping Queer Bioethics," in which we take a solipsistic turn to "map" the Journal of Homosexuality itself. Here, the author examines one of the most controversial moments in the history of the journal, whereby a contributor was subject to governmental and popular rebuke for his scholarship on pederasty, pedophilia, and underage queer sexuality. In a chronological and intellectual appraisal of this pedophilia-themed text, the author asks us to recalibrate the disquietude we posit when same-sex affection, youthful sexuality, and sexual abuse are in close proximity.
authors.affiliation: a Department of English , University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , USA.
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zaborskis
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010378:Pedophilia / Q000523:psychology*; D011057:Politics; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D011049:Social Control Policies / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000639:trends*
keywords: Academic freedom; LGBT health; LGBT politics; bioethics; childhood sexuality; pederasty; pedophilia; queer children