Mario Mieli

Mario Mieli (21 May 1952, Milan – 12 March 1983) was an Italian activist, writer, playwright, and gender studies theorist.

[1] He is best known for his essay Elementi di critica omosessuale (Homosexuality and liberation: elements of a gay critique) published in its first edition in 1977[2], and was one of the founders of FUORI!

Children, according to Mieli's thought, could "free themselves" from social prejudices and find the realization of their "polyform perversity" through adults who were aware of the above assertion:"We revolutionary queers can see in the child not so much the Oedipus, or the future Oedipus, but the potentially free human being.

This is why pederasty is so harshly condemned: it addresses amorous messages to the child that society instead, through the family, traumatizes, educates, denies, lowering the Oedipal grid on its eroticism.

Pederasty, on the other hand, 'is an arrow of lust shot toward the fetus' (Francesco Ascoli)"(Elements of Homosexual Criticism, p. 62, 2002) Footnote 88 reads:"By pederasty I mean the erotic desire of adults for children (of either sex) and sexual relations between adults and children.