Barrie and the Lost Boys
Andrew Birkin wrote a biography titled “Barrie and the Lost Boys.” Birkin stresses his opinion that despite the disturbing undertone in his stories, he does not believe Barrie was a sexual predator. Instead, he calls him “a lover of childhood, but was not in any sexual sense the pedophile that some claim him to have been.”
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This reminds me of the Michael Jackson scandal. I’m not going to get into that here, but some people view him as a child predator, and others see him as a child at heart- making up for his own lost childhood. Everyone will have their own opinions. Either way, I think it’s safe to say that J.M. Barrie’s books would not fly these days.