industrial music lukewarm take
there’s a lot of discourse on if sleazy was a pedophile/child molester. A long of this discourse stems from him living with a lot of younger Thai men after balances death, (and the loves secret domain music video but I’m going to focus on the above). The age of the men is unconfirmed and I don’t think any of them have come out for certain, however sleazy himself says they were 18.
Now my lukewarm take: it doesn’t matter if they were of age or not, what he did was still kind of rapey.
like, he was presumably living with the boys and I’m assuming paying them a wage. I also I’m assuming there was sex involved due to it already being evidenced that sleazy was attracted to younger Thai men (loves secret domain).
this would mean the boys would intentionally or not be forced into performing sexual acts or risk losing their job/current place of residence. Which is extremely coercive. Especially considering they were a lot younger than sleazy. Sleazy had financial control over them.
I’m not saying you can’t listen to coil. I listen to coil. But it does annoy me when any discourse about this only focuses on the boys age and not the fact from outside looking in, the situation sounds coercive no matter the age of the men.