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I clearly missed the section where he "persuaded" them. You appear, if I am not mistaken, to have made up this bit in your imagination. So, not true, and not fact.
That, I think, is the meat of Ganesh's objection - you are making things up to support a particular worldview. Now, lots of people do this all the time, but when they do it to make it appear that certain practices are necessarily coercive in order to avoid having to cope with a world in which they are not, that is likely to cause problems with other people's consensus reality.
Let us for a moment imagine a world in which no young man could *want* to have gay sex unless they were somehow "persuaded" (which was the prevailing wisdom for a very long time, and in certain quarters still is, not least the House of Lords), or that no woman could possibly want to have sex unless they were somehow "persuaded" (an idea so dominant in times past that it effectively formed the central thrust of the 70s comedy "the Lovers"). These days, of course, such ideas seem to us mature metropolitans ludicrous and paleolithic. Indeed, if somebody where to protest against them, to accuse them of "getting their knickers in a twist" would be considered an act at best of simplicity and at worst of bigotry.
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