The Treehouse (Green)

This article is about Green's Treehouse. For the BoyChat board, see BoyChat.

The Treehouse message board was founded in 1996 by Green and served as a meeting place for regular posters from BoyChat. The Treehouse was quite popular for several months and served mainly as a role-playing forum where BoyChat posters took on the the identities of their former "boy selves". The project began as a thread on BoyChat itself. Green set up a separate message board when the thread began to grow too large to be convenient. Green's Treehouse only stopped operating when Green himself took a hiatus from the Internet in order to concentrate on his studies.

GREEN'S STATEMENT OF BOYLOVE

Dear friends,

If I were to tell you that I was a heterosexual man, would your mind wonder to thoughts of me being a rapist? Or a wife beater? Would you believe that I want to control women, and manipulate them into having sex with me? Would you believe that the only reason I would ever want to know a woman is to have sex with her? Would you assume that I don't care for women at all except for wanting to have sex with them? Well, such men do exist. They do treat women that way. Perhaps someone sitting in the room right now is that way.

But I would say that none of us would automatically assume that a man possesses such evil qualities, just because his sexual orientation is towards woman.

How about if I told you that I was sexually attracted to boys ages 8-12? Where does your mind go now? What do you assume about me? If you are like most, you probably feel pretty uncomfortable right now. You probably have thoughts of a molester. Your comprehension of the notion is limited. I mean no one any offense here, but all you know about us is that there are molesters out there. It is not entirely your fault, because it is all you have been told. To know any more about this would have taken considerable effort and research on your part, something I am sure most of you have not had the time to do. As far as motivation goes - what do you care? The cops are rounding us up and removing us from your existence, and you will not have to think about it any more. Right?

Wrong. We have existed as long as humanity, and we will be around until the end.

So for your sake, let me set the record straight.

We call ourselves Boylovers (well, most of us anyway). So hated and persecuted just for having the thought, we meet on the internet, anonymously. We are everywhere. We are doctors, lawyers, teachers, therapists, judges, politicians, line workers, burger flippers, homeless, unemployed, data entry people, authors, college students, college professors, telephone operators, and any other career you can think of.

We have feelings, we feel love, hate, anger, sad, happy, we cry, we laugh: we are human beings. Not all of us are perfect. Some of us are prone to criminal behavior. Some are rapists. Our sexual desire does not create that though. I am sure (although I have never done a study) that there are proportionally more heterosexual and homosexual rapists than Boylover rapists.

The point is that sexual orientation does not cause one to be a rapist any more that it causes them to respect all people. Being a Boylover is just a small part of who we are, just as your sexual orientation is only a part of who you are.

The judgement that comes from the culture causes many of us pain, and I am sure even drives some of us to being rapists.

One might say (and John Walch comes to mind), "It's fine if you feel sexual toward boys, but just stay away from them sicko."

Well, what if someone said that to you, about what you are attracted to? I mean really take some time and think about that. You are being told that you can not even be near what your skin longs to touch. You would find a way anyway, and if rape seemed like your last option, you would do it.

Fortunately, rape is not our last option. Unfortunately, it seems so to a very few Boylovers, just as it does to some heterosexuals and homosexuals. In fact, rape is a totally different pathology altogether.

Hi, I'm a Boylover. Stop that wondering mind: I am not a rapist. In fact, I have never even had sex with a boy. I've known and loved many boys, and they all have loved me just as much, and they all still do. The respect I show them far exceeds the respect that children get as a whole (which is a completely different issue that I could spend even more time on but won't).

If your mind has opened, even a little, then remember this: I have only scratched the surface of the information available about us. If you are really committed to ending the raping of children (as I am) then I encourage you to research Boylove. Find a way to include us in the culture. Because we are going to be here either way, and there aren't enough jail cells in the world to put us all in.

With love and hope,

green