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...daughter and a baby is a baby. At this a student reasonably protested that other parents were not so understanding, and I said, too angrily, "Let them learn, if they're so Christian!" The fact is, I can't endure the American middle-class. Paul Goodman...
...never wished to report Mr. Goodman's argument, a news story did that; nor was my chief complaint of his podium manners. My article was a personal Impression of the man; of the tensions between his ideology and his way of life. I did not bother to write of these contradictions because I fear the student's mind is waxen, but because the student longs for an adult to champion his cause and will overlook much when rendered this service...
...Goodman puts his finger on my real fear when he speaks of responsibility. But he shrugs his shoulders. It is a teacher's responsibility to help the student towards maturity, to "wait for" it before enticing him into bed. Adult homosexuality 18 a rough-go. Once initiated, a young person tends to remain homo-or bi-sexual, or returns to heterosexual activity long bearing the guilt and anxiety (however irrational) of his youthful experience. Neither consequence is happy; neither justifies Goodman's fling...
...fade away as the adolescent emerges into adulthood. Except in the relationship of the rapist and patient, it is not always best that submerged contents come to the surface. Under normal circumstances the analysand is not in danger of being led into buggery by his therapist. In denying seduction Goodman exploits these latent attractions. If there were no such skill or art as seduction, all men would meet with equal sexual success...
...quasi-Reichian notion that "holding back" is an damaging to a young man as introducing him to pederasty might be more convincing if Goodman were willing to offer his manifold partners continued commitment and support. But it is ludicrous to presume that his lovers cease to be infatuated with him at the precise moment he moves on to a new affair. Here again, he abdicates his responsibility...