roundabout electic

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"CBL: The pedophilia thing is, I think, a recurring problem, and I know we’ll run into this when the article comes out, so it might be interesting to deal with it by stepping outside the realm of art and asking you in a very straightforward way what you think the age of consent should be? In other words what do you regard as the limits of human sexual behaviour. Animals? (We kill them anyway, why not fuck them?) Incest? Necrophilia? Etc. Where do we…ahem…draw the line? Do you perhaps have rather conventional views on these sexual taboos when you are away from art? Is your love life anything remotely like your paintings? TB: Yeah, in person I'm way more conservatively normal, boring and conventional than the Trevor Brown art ogre. You may have noticed that throughout this interview I'm always using the term "my work" rather than "my," as if to very clearly differentiate them as two separate entities. I'm not even particularly sexually attracted to children at all. Well, physically, not until around the age of 14 but even then intellectual immaturity would make them fall short of desirability for me (although 14 year old females fans that have written to me haven't sounded exactly stupid). I love 18 year olds who look 12! (The way things are going it won't be long before that is illegal too!). It's utterly ridiculous setting the age of consent, etc., at 18 and anything below that is "child abuse" territory. Girls are most sexually ripe at around 17 (my wife said this!) and they are no longer kids at that age so they shouldn't be treated as such. I don't have solutions but clearly we just need a little common sense to prevail here, unlikely as that is. Homosexuality and SM practices are variously legal or illegal depending on where you are carrying out such acts on the globe. I think most would accept them as healthy fair-play if consensual for all involved parties. Outside parties, dictating what you can and cannot do in the privacy of your own home, should just not be involved at all. Bestiality and necrophilia, fair game for art, but in the real world probably cross the taboo line because of the issue of consent."