Port Moody councillor’s book recommends man-boy relationship as a “family structure”

By Cosmin Dzsurdzsa

Port Moody incumbent city council candidate Hunter Madsen co-authored a controversial book about the gay community that mused about the ancient Greek practice of sexual relationships between older men and boys aged “sixteen or so” as ideal and a form of “family structure.”

The renowned book titled After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the ‘90s was published in 1989 by Madsen, who was then an advertising executive, alongside neuropsychologist Marshall Kirk.

While Madsen and Kirk don’t encourage pederasty in the book, explicitly stating that the “authors grant nothing of the sort” when it comes to ethically approving of pederasty, several troubling sections ambiguously gloss over the abuse adult-child sexual relations result in without unequivocally denouncing it.

In a section titled Back to Plato: A Modest Proposal to Resurrect the “Traditional Gay Family”, Madsen and Kirk outline the “ancient Greek model” of a “explicitly sexual love” between “an attractive boy – of, say, sixteen or so” known in Greek as an eromenos (beloved) and an “older, presumably more mature and established, man” known as an erastes (adult lover.)

True North reached out to Madsen for comment and an opportunity to clarify his views on the subject but did not receive a response by the time this article was published. It is unclear whether or not he continues to hold these same controversial views since they were published in his book. Madsen is currently running to be re-elected to council. Voters are set to go to the polls on Oct. 15.

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