The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 49, December 2, 2007, Article 16

QUIZ ANSWER: NUMISMATICS AND PEDERASTY

Last week we discussed a satirical article confusing
philately with pederasty.  As a quiz question I asked what
numismatic author wrote a book on the subject of pederasty.
James Higby and Ken Bressett had incorrect guesses.  An
anonymous reader was the first with the answer I had in mind:
Walter Breen, who in 1964 authored 'Greek Love' under the
pseudonym J. Z. Eglinton.  Other correct responses came
from John Dannreuther, Denis Loring and Ken Berger.

The book covers the subject in history and literature from
Ancient Greece to the 20th century.  Breen authored numerous
articles and books on U.S. numismatics.  He was arrested in
1991 on charges of child molestation and died in prison
two years later.

The book's page on Amazon includes an unsigned comment from
one of his family members: "J.Z. Eglinton, also known as Walter
H. Breen, coauthored 'Greek Love' with my mother, Marion Zimmer
Bradley. He felt deeply of the rightness of his position, and
used arguments from the book to try to convince the judge at
his two trials for child molesting. A few of Marion Bradley's
books have pedophilic themes; among them 'The Catch Trap' and
it is interesting to read her works with awareness of her
involvement in these issues."

Ken Bressett's guess was Professor T.V. Buttrey.  He writes:
"Ted Buttrey wrote an article which appeared in The Numismatic
Chronicle, Vol. XIII, 1973, under the title 'The Spintraie as
a Historical Source'.  The term 'spintrea' is used to describe
an erotic token made under the reign of Tiberius."

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