are we any smarter than the age that destroyed the talents of Oscar Wilde?

gary glitter would say not. presumably Jonathan King would say something similar. And Michael Jackson.

Every age seems to have its tabus involving deviant behaviour it will not try to understand.

I'm not sure of where I stand. But it seems strange that we cannot somehow accept that we are either producing deviant behaviour by the way our society is organised, or that there are some humans who have these drives within themselves and society needs a better policy than criminalising them.

I don't make sexual advances to minors because I am more virtuous, or I might get caught - I don't do that because I don't want to.