There are quite a number of obscure stores where children congregate, often in back rooms, to read and buy secondhand comic books. The proprietors usually permit the children to spend a lot of time in their establishments and to pore over the comic books. In some parts of cities, men hang around these stores which sometimes are foci of childhood prostitution. Evidently comic books prepare the little girls well.
Homosexual childhood prostitution, especially in boys, is often associated with stealing and with violence. For all these activities children are softened up by comic books. Their super-ego formation with regard to sex is interfered with in a subtle way: everything is permitted to men in comic books and there is constant sex stimulation. Charles was studied at the Quaker Emergency Service Readjustment Center. At the age of twelve he engaged in regular prostitution. He did not play hookey, but followed this occupation after school hours. He said,
"I meet the men in office places or places of business. They give me a dollar or fifty cents. I wondered how they'd be so generous. Some men are about thirty-five."
The outstanding feature in this boy's examination was his moral confusion. Comic books contributed to this.
"I usually read comic books, Gang Busters or True Comics, about ten or fifteen a week, about two a day. I trade them."
Fred’s Video Club
Too fantastic to believe! 10,000 youtube fans can’t be wrong, eh? Not to mention the FIVE MILLION who have watched that Romeo & Juliet video. You know, it ain’t easy playing a doctor on TV… or the online version of Wertham Redivivus. Especially when you’ve actually LOVE comics since the Silver Age. Back in 1996, most geeks got the joke. Today? Not so much. I guess all those maniacal Marvel movies are bound to make mincemeat of your sense of irony… man! To say nothing of all that disinformation that’s been out there percolating since 2010 (but I will name no names). To you I sing…
Je t’aime, je t’aime
Oh oui, je t’aime
Moi non plus
Oh, mon amour
Comme la vague irrésolue
Je vais, je vais et je viens
Entre tes reins
Je vais et je viens
Entre tes reins
Et je me retiens
Serge Gainsbourg
3 Oct 1979