Rewind (Then Fast-Forward): Chicken Hawk
I only made it halfway through the 1994 documentary Chicken Hawk: Men Who Love Boys. I was bullshit after about three minutes; watching grown men try to justify why they want to fuck kids can have that effect on people. This doc is like the Heavy Metal Parking Lot of pedophile movies and features a shameless crew of creepos driving raper-vans through the woods and talking about how the boys “are yet to blossom.” Seriously, I’m an open-minded cat and I do my best to put myself in the “other” pair of shoes, but all this doc made me want to do is buy a shotgun then find this old bastard in the jaundice sweater (below) and redecorate his arsehole with buckshot.
The doc takes an objective look at NAMBLA, the North American Man-Boy Love Association, and their FUBAR members. Brief aside – my roommate notified me that if you visit the NAMBLA website, the U.S. government flags the shit out of you, hence the lack of link. I honestly have nothing else to say about this doc except NAMBLA shouldn’t exist and all its members deserve a curb stomp or 10. Our good friends at Netflix do not have Chicken Hawk available (they wouldn’t be caught dead with such rubbish), but you can watch the whole movie on the doldrums of YouTube.
May 27th, 2009 at 2:37 am
dear fucking lord.
May 27th, 2009 at 10:13 am
I saw Chicken Hawk for the first time about 6 or 7 years ago. You could only ever find it at Kim’s Video in NY as an old 2nd or 3rd generation VHS.
It It was an NYU student project or maybe a senior film that started getting notoriety and getting passed around in the 90s. Then Howard Stern got a hold of it and would not only play clips from it endlessly but make prank phone calls to the various NAMBLA members from the film. Finally someone called in and asked where the hell all those clips were from and Stern plugged the film.
Be prrroud to be… a boy luffffer!
May 27th, 2009 at 10:57 am
haha whoa. these dudes are all such creepers and they all look ridiculous. there wasn’t a single dude in the film that you wouldn’t look at and be like, “yep, that dude’s a pedophile.” also, the dude who wrote in and thought nambla would send him masturbation material, wow.
May 27th, 2009 at 11:46 am
Thanks for the background info, Crook. One of my boys just recommended it to me. Did I say “boys?” Fuck.
May 27th, 2009 at 11:53 am
Bet you didn’t realize there were so many kinds of pedophiles!
May 27th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Ah, memories! I used to work at See Hear on East 7th street, the basement zine store that prided itself on carrying all the publications that nobody else would stock, including the NAMBLA Bulletin. Having personally sold more than a few copies of the boy-lovingest rag in the world, I can confirm that its readership is every bit as skin-crawlingly icky as ‘Chickenhawk’ suggests. The typical NAMBLA reader is a grizzled old dude in velcro sneakers who wears his raincoat on sunny days. They were always ashamed and often took the trouble to tell a story about some kind of obscure “academic research” to justify the purchase. The only exception to this rule was a gay Puerto Rican skinhead who would regularly drop by after the Alcoholics Anonymous meeting across the street let out, and he would purchase the latest White Power magazines along with his NAMBLA. Real New York kerrikters!
I think the high point of the NAMBLA Bulletin during my employment was its History Issue, which featured erotic fiction about a pre-pubescent Mark Twain. You haven’t really experienced avant garde literature until you’ve read a pedophile laying down exactly how he would woo and ravish a young Samuel Clemens, imagined as a mischievous and apple-cheeked lad with a precocious flair for language…among other things! Assuming you’re not into rugrats, the NAMBLA Bulletin is one of the most bizarre anthologies of unintentional comedy you’ll ever come across. In retrospect I wish I had been cool enough to save that issue, but I was too afraid that I might get hit by a bus and my family would find it among my possessions after the funeral and get the wrong idea.
May 27th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
I forget where it was in, but probably Vice that went on in length about some NAMBLA bulletin article written about Haley Joel Osment that was a must read. But I think by the time the issue came out or shortly thereafter the NAMBLA site was taken down which I think regularly happens to it.
May 27th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Yeah Ginsberg caught a lot of flack for being a member and supporting the NAMBLA but if you understood the deeper philosophy of his poems you’d understand it was more about freedom of speech. Even he got out when assholes like Leeland there became the NAMBLA driving force. Who thinks a little boy is flirting with them really? One of my coworker’s sons has a little crush on me but his idea of love is giving me Blue M&M’s and letting me play his PSP. It’s cute in that in 15 years from now when I run into him and his mom somewhere she’ll say, “Oh hey you used to have a big crush on her when you were little” kind of way and then she’ll pull out a picture of him and his age appropriate girlfriend. Way to make kids just being kids something dirty.
I’d actually prefer these d-bags have a public forum instead of lurking about school playgrounds. And I don’t believe in the death penalty but I believe in punishment aka Mandatory General Population for pedophiles in the prison system. Let someone there appreciate YOUR “flirtatious” nature, Leeland. No soap on a rope for you.
May 27th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
NAMBLA fan fiction sounds pretty awesome.
May 27th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
Up until this blog showed me this video I was under the impression NAMBLA was fake.
Apparently Leeland is in jail for child porn.
May 28th, 2009 at 7:20 am
i was in full-blown dad mode after watching this, and i’m nowhere close to having a kid. that guy was way too giddy after talking to that boy at the pay phone (i feel like like a perv saying boy now). it was also really hard to listen to the sexual stuff he said about kids, it makes you feel sick just hearing him say it. the biggest redeeming quality of this documentary was the dude drawing erotic pictures and putting them in books in the library. that’s better than having sex with kids, so i guess props to him? also, i was trying to remember where i had first heard of nambla, and it was from that Leftover Crack song “muppet NAMBLA.” here’s to hoping all these dudes are locked up and not cruisin schools and stores for little kids.
September 3rd, 2009 at 1:17 am
Very good film. One of the most disturbing films I have ever seen.