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[–]millicentfawcett 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The discomfort with Tatchell stems from a letter he wrote to a newspaper where he states "Several of my friends gay and straight, male and female had sex with adults from age 9-13. None feel they were abused. All say it was their conscious choice and gave them great joy"

The whole letter is a pro paedophilia argument, I'm not sure how it can be interpreted as anything else.

I used to have a lot of time for Tatchell, his book Battle for Bermondsey was one of the first I read on my Sociology course as a teenager but now I just find him disappointing.

This is the letter https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Peter-Tatchell-Letter-1.jpg