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Where I live the top rated local radio talk show host ends his broadcast everyday with the words "pay cash for your books" (followed by "and pound your conch as often as you can"). This is definitely one book that you don't want to be linked with in some database, and, for the first irony, that's part of the author's message. Rod Downey tells the story (or is it autobiographical?) of Red Rover and his man/boy love affairs, specifically one with twelve-year-old Jonathan. Along the way are long and sometimes tedious rationalizations for this behaviour involving both psychobabble and historical references. (At one point, even Jonathan tells Red that he talks like the pompous Frasier Crane.) On one level, the writing is witty, touching and sometimes even sympathy-provoking. On another level it is disturbing and disgusting. And that makes it original as well as controversial. I've never heard of the publisher, Factor Press, but also problematic are the more-than-acceptable number of typos, the funniest of which is "...Red observed his slender frame and narrow hips beneath loosely draped fabric that shifted smoothly from side to side for balance, poultry (sic) in motion." The ultimate irony is the title, supposedly referring to Red, the lead character, who is anything but a moralist.


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I'm sure this book would be very scandalous if it weren't so stylistically painful to read. The author suffers from a very common problem that plagues many authors, he overcompensates the main character's confidence to the point of self-righteous arrogance. It's hard to take a pretentious protagonist seriously. The whole book reads like it was written as a creative writing assignment at a community college (which probably got a B-). I was no where near as offended by the subject matter as I was by the style. I threw it away so it wouldn't contaminate my other books with it's crappy writing. Hack work.
This is an extraordinary book. I have been happily straight all my life, but have always been deeply uneasy with the whole attitude of the baying masses who seem to want blood for any but the most distant relationship with the young. All cases must be judged on their merits rather than by the knee-jerk response of hell-fire and damnation.

I can perfectly understand that not all man-boy relationships are abusive, although of course some will be just as inter-adult ones can be. I also know that very young men (having been one myself) are highly sexual in thought and deed the more the better! And I know, too, that love can take many forms, along a spectrum from full-on exclusively erotic to the purely Platonic.

Rod Downey's book travels the road of the developing love between a teacher/mentor and his pupil/disciple. At times it is the youngster who is leading the relationship, mostly it is the older man, with tact and care and love. The tragedy that is always lurking below the surface is that they are living in danger of being hounded and imprisoned (or worse) by the lynch-mob mentality of the politically correct masses, even before there is any sexual contact, and suffer too from the hypocrisy of society. And Downey adduces many arguments in support of his contention that not all relationships between men and boys are harmful, bringing in the behaviours and attitudes of the Classical Greeks (and other successful societies) as well as the thoughts of philosophers through the ages.

I found this a wonderful and uplifting book, but at the same time a very depressing commentary on the workings of what is supposed to be a leading democracy, the USA (more can be said about that particular premise!). I can absolutely see how the religious and conservative factions must loathe Downey and his book and it is for that very reason that I think this book should be compulsory reading for all who care about the kind of love that our children are exposed to.
Three Cheers! for Rod Downey. _The Moralist_ may be fiction however it is a true storey nonetheless. It is a real storey, happening all around us and right before our eyes.

Well Done Rod Downey.

But it is also a very scary storey. I've not completed it yet, I am almost afraid to for fear that just by reading it I will make it happen.

Gardyloo, ajo
Where I live the top rated local radio talk show host ends his broadcast everyday with the words "pay cash for your books" (followed by "and pound your conch as often as you can"). This is definitely one book that you don't want to be linked with in some database, and, for the first irony, that's part of the author's message. Rod Downey tells the story (or is it autobiographical?) of Red Rover and his man/boy love affairs, specifically one with twelve-year-old Jonathan. Along the way are long and sometimes tedious rationalizations for this behaviour involving both psychobabble and historical references. (At one point, even Jonathan tells Red that he talks like the pompous Frasier Crane.) On one level, the writing is witty, touching and sometimes even sympathy-provoking. On another level it is disturbing and disgusting. And that makes it original as well as controversial. I've never heard of the publisher, Factor Press, but also problematic are the more-than-acceptable number of typos, the funniest of which is "...Red observed his slender frame and narrow hips beneath loosely draped fabric that shifted smoothly from side to side for balance, poultry (sic) in motion." The ultimate irony is the title, supposedly referring to Red, the lead character, who is anything but a moralist.