Poole teacher jailed for downloading child pornography (From Bournemouth Echo)

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  *Fiona* wrote:
  People like the campaigner Peter Tatchell are calling for the age of consent to be lowered.
  
  Its incredibly disturbing he has publicly stated that he supports "boy love"
  
  
  In 1987 Tatchell wrote a letter to The Guardian defending a book about “Boy Love” describing the effort as “courageous”.
  
  He later rationalised this when criticised by Peter Hitchens in 2010 as support for free speech.
  He then pointed out that several of his friends had gained “great joy” from having sex with an adult, some as young as nine-years-old. None felt abused and that not all sex involving children is “unwanted, abusive or harmful.”
  He thinks that boy love advocate Herdt offers a rational and informed perspective of sexual relations between young and older people, “…where consenting inter-generational sex is considered normal, beneficial and enjoyable by old and young alike.”
  
  Tatchell stated that,
  “Far from being harmed, Prof Herdt says the boys grow up happy, well-adjusted husbands and fathers.”
  
  Peter Hitchens, writing in The Mail on Sunday, said Tatchells comments raised the issue of “where the sexual revolution may really be headed”.
  
  “What he said in 1997 remains deeply shocking to almost all of us. But shock fades into numb acceptance, as it has over and over again.
  
  Much of what is 'normal' now would have been deeply shocking to British people 50 years ago. We got used to it.
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  Why is there no outcry about ppl like Peter Tatchell he seriously gives me the creeps!

  Fiona, you need to take more notice of Peter Hitchens late brother...........ra
  ther than the bile in the Daily Mail, or the misguided belief in demons!"
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