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2026-09-04T19:50:32Z

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<small>This article has been written following a Newgon editor's communication with an informant familiar with the matter. '''It requires further references''', particularly from Polish-language newspapers behind hard paywalls and from Polish-language books. Editors with a reading knowledge of Polish, or those willing to obtain such texts via interlibrary loan and have them machine-translated, are warmly encouraged to assist.</small>

'''Spectre''' (Polish: ''Widmo'') was a post-1989 paedophile group based in Poznan, Poland.

== Pre-history ==
After the Second World War, a man later known as '''Wasaty''' – a committed [[Communism|communist]] – pursued a career within the diplomatic bureaucracy of the Polish People's Republic. When a Dutch delegation including [[Edward Brongersma]] visited Poland in the 1970s, he made contact with the left-wing senator, briefing him on Warsaw's gay, mostly pederast, underground. The contact likely did not last, and was probably only renewed after 1989.

Fascinated by a boy choir from Poznan, he used this underground network to seek contact with people close to the choir, thereby becoming acquainted with a young man from Poznan later known as '''Dzieciokoch''' (a literal Polish rendering of "paedophile"/"childlover"). He frequently invented pretexts of official Party duties to his superiors in order to visit the city, in reality attending the choir's concerts. Poznan had once been home to five boy choirs, though by that time probably only three remained.

Disenchanted with the trajectory communism was then taking, he resigned his official post during the 1980s and settled permanently in Poznan.

== 1990s ==
Poznan had its own pederast underground; by the 1990s, a distinction between gays preferring legal teens and [[Boylove|boylovers]] had emerged, though not a divisive one. The city emerged as a centre for the distribution of European [[Child Pornography|child pornography]] imported from Germany.

In 1994, a group of five men (Wasaty and Dzieciokoch included), having heard a rendering of Bach's ''St Matthew Passion'' under the direction of the choir's newly appointed conductor, resolved that the time had come to establish a formal organisation. Inspired by achievements in the Netherlands, and harbouring a degree of sympathy for the communist era amid the harsh capitalist transformation then under way, they adopted the name '''Spectre'''. Wasaty was appointed chairperson, while Dzieciokoch took on the role of logistician, responsible both for organising meetings and for coordinating materials from allied groups in Germany and the Netherlands.

Until Brongersma's death, contacts between Spectre and the Dutch groups remained reasonably close. The language barrier, however, kept the group from engaging directly with English-language thought, save where translated into Polish, as with certain libertarian anarchist ideas, and it relied largely on German sources.

The manifesto, written in the mid-1990s, would, should the original surface, stand as the earliest modern paedophile [[Boylove Manifesto|manifesto]]. After Wasaty's death, who had wished to bring the group into public activism, Dzieciokoch took over and adopted a far more cautious line, heeding Brongerma's warnings of the movement's imminent collapse, a concern shaped in turn by the former senator's own experience of the Dutroux affair of 1996.

In 1997, during a performance of Mozart's Requiem given in the Netherlands by the Polish Nightingales, Brongersma remarked to Dzieciokoch that he was too weary of life, and that the Requiem might as well have been performed for him. No extant recording of the event confirms Brongersma's presence; nevertheless, the account is rather credible – at least one further active politician, from the conservative party, is known to have attended.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEmZksnIYjM</ref>

Following Brongersma's death, centre of the paedophile movement slowly shifted from Amsterdam and Copenhagen to Berlin. Polish contacts with the Netherlands abruptly ceased. The group concentrated its efforts on maintaining ties with the Berlin chapter of the [[AG–Pädo]], being geographically closer to Poznan.

== Early 2000s ==
[[File:Spectre2005.png|thumb|Scan of a handwritten note from an attendee at Spectre’s 2005 workshop on pressing personal issues, reading: “And what if I never hug? What if there will be no big eyes to smile at? NEVER! I fear. Caressing a pillow – that’s not a life...” The author of the note later died by suicide, one of two Spectre's members known to have done so.]]From the 1990s onward, Spectre organised its meetings to coincide with the international boy choir festivals held annually in Poznan by the Polish Nightingales. Of these gatherings, only a few minutes of the proceedings remain.

In 2002, the group received warnings from the AG–Pädo concerning a possible infiltration. This intuition proved correct: that same summer, the German journalist Manfred Karremann infiltrated the Berlin chapter of the AG–Pädo, leading to its disbandment. The meeting scheduled for the summer of 2003 was intended to address Spectre's next steps, the group having suddenly found itself isolated from the wider movement. A return to the Dutch contacts was to be proposed, particularly in light of the coming out of [[Marthijn Uittenbogaard]] and [[Norbert de Jonge]]. For reasons unknown to Newgon's informant, however, this was the first annual meeting not to take place.

A month later, Wojiech Krolopp, director of the Polish Nightingales, was arrested and charged with sexual offences against boy choristers. This sent a shockwave through the group still concerned with the possibility of infiltration. A policy of total anonymity was adopted, and any aspirations towards activism were abandoned for good. The group was henceforth to be concerned with nothing more than peer support, and personal international contacts were explicitly forbidden. New members were to be recruited through the internet forum of '''BluFik''', and, after its closure, through the new forum run by '''Misiaczek''', a young man from Poznan who most probably never affiliated himself with Spectre.

== Misiaczek affair and Lex Misiaczek ==
Misiaczek's blog was noticed by Poland's largest newspaper,<ref>https://classic.wyborcza.pl/archiwumGW/4915735/-Pozytywna--pedofilia-bedzie-karana-</ref> sparking a moral panic. For several years, the Polish parliament had attempted to ban paedophile propaganda, finally succeeding in 2010 with a total ban carrying a penalty of two years' imprisonment. This was the first such ban in the world, and was explicitly followed by Slovakia, and, on somewhat different grounds and at the judicial level, by the Netherlands. The morale of Spectre was significantly lowered. No communal outings to the concerts were organised, although many of the members attended the concerts of the three choirs on their own initiative.

== 2013 ==
In the winter of 2013, the meeting was to address recent developments in the discourse on paedophilia, including scandalous statements by the Polish episcopate on children's willingness to engage in sex, a new book by a Dutch journalist on child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Poland, the death of Wojiech Krolopp, and the situation of [[Vereniging MARTIJN|Martijn]], among other matters. However, the agenda was overtaken by a book published by journalist Martin Kacki on the (sexual) history of Poznan's boy choirs. The remark by one of the former choristers, that Poznan was saturated with paedophilia, struck the members with something close to dread. What followed, as the minutes themselves bear out, was an extremely heated and sorrowful discussion – one marked, it seems, by real grief – at the end of which the group resolved, with evident sense of injustice, to disband.

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== Further reading ==
Kacki, Martin (2013). ''Maestro.'' Agora.

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Spectre

2026-09-01T02:09:26Z

Bookworm: Added a scan

<small>'''This article requires further references''', particularly from Polish-language newspapers behind hard paywalls and from Polish-language books. Editors with a reading knowledge of Polish, or those willing to obtain such texts via interlibrary loan and have them machine-translated, are warmly encouraged to assist.</small>

'''Spectre''' (Polish: ''Widmo'') was a post-1989 paedophile group based in Poznan, Poland.

== Pre-history ==
After the Second World War, a man later known as '''Wasaty''' – a committed [[Communism|communist]] – pursued a career within the diplomatic bureaucracy of the Polish People's Republic. When a Dutch delegation including [[Edward Brongersma]] visited Poland in the 1970s, he made contact with the left-wing senator, briefing him on Warsaw's gay, mostly pederast, underground. The contact likely did not last, and was probably only renewed after 1989.

Fascinated by a boy choir from Poznan, he used this underground network to seek contact with people close to the choir, thereby becoming acquainted with a young man from Poznan later known as '''Dzieciokoch''' (a literal Polish rendering of "paedophile"/"childlover"). He frequently invented pretexts of official Party duties to his superiors in order to visit the city, in reality attending the choir's concerts. Poznan had once been home to five boy choirs, though by that time probably only three remained.

Disenchanted with the trajectory communism was then taking, he resigned his official post during the 1980s and settled permanently in Poznan.

== 1990s ==
Poznan had its own pederast underground; by the 1990s, a distinction between gays preferring legal teens and [[Boylove|boylovers]] had emerged, though not a divisive one. The city emerged as a centre for the distribution of European [[Child Pornography|child pornography]] imported from Germany.

In 1994, a group of five men (Wasaty and Dzieciokoch included), having heard a rendering of Bach's ''St Matthew Passion'' under the direction of the choir's newly appointed conductor, resolved that the time had come to establish a formal organisation. Inspired by achievements in the Netherlands, and harbouring a degree of sympathy for the communist era amid the harsh capitalist transformation then under way, they adopted the name '''Spectre'''. Wasaty was appointed chairperson, while Dzieciokoch took on the role of logistician, responsible both for organising meetings and for coordinating materials from allied groups in Germany and the Netherlands.

Until Brongersma's death, contacts between Spectre and the Dutch groups remained reasonably close. The language barrier, however, kept the group from engaging directly with English-language thought, save where translated into Polish, as with certain libertarian anarchist ideas, and it relied largely on German sources.

The manifesto, written in the mid-1990s, would, should the original surface, stand as the earliest modern paedophile [[Boylove Manifesto|manifesto]]. After Wasaty's death, who had wished to bring the group into public activism, Dzieciokoch took over and adopted a far more cautious line, heeding Brongerma's warnings of the movement's imminent collapse, a concern shaped in turn by the former senator's own experience of the Dutroux affair of 1996.

In 1997, during a performance of Mozart's Requiem given in the Netherlands by the Polish Nightingales, Brongersma remarked to Dzieciokoch that he was too weary of life, and that the Requiem might as well have been performed for him. No extant recording of the event confirms Brongersma's presence; nevertheless, the account is rather credible – at least one further active politician, from the conservative party, is known to have attended.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEmZksnIYjM</ref>

Following Brongersma's death, centre of the paedophile movement slowly shifted from Amsterdam and Copenhagen to Berlin. Polish contacts with the Netherlands abruptly ceased. The group concentrated its efforts on maintaining ties with the Berlin chapter of the [[AG–Pädo]], being geographically closer to Poznan.

== Early 2000s ==
[[File:Spectre2005.png|thumb|Scan of a handwritten note from an attendee at Spectre’s 2005 workshop on pressing personal issues, reading: “And what if I never hug? What if there will be no big eyes to smile at? NEVER! I fear. Caressing a pillow – that’s not a life...” The author of the note later died by suicide, one of two Spectre's members known to have done so.]]From the 1990s onward, Spectre organised its meetings to coincide with the international boy choir festivals held annually in Poznan by the Polish Nightingales. Of these gatherings, only a few minutes of the proceedings remain.

In 2002, the group received warnings from the AG–Pädo concerning a possible infiltration. This intuition proved correct: that same summer, the German journalist Manfred Karremann infiltrated the Berlin chapter of the AG–Pädo, leading to its disbandment. The meeting scheduled for the summer of 2003 was intended to address Spectre's next steps, the group having suddenly found itself isolated from the wider movement. A return to the Dutch contacts was to be proposed, particularly in light of the coming out of [[Marthijn Uittenbogaard]] and [[Norbert de Jonge]]. For reasons unknown to Newgon's informant, however, this was the first annual meeting not to take place.

A month later, Wojiech Krolopp, director of the Polish Nightingales, was arrested and charged with sexual offences against boy choristers. This sent a shockwave through the group still concerned with the possibility of infiltration. A policy of total anonymity was adopted, and any aspirations towards activism were abandoned for good. The group was henceforth to be concerned with nothing more than peer support, and personal international contacts were explicitly forbidden. New members were to be recruited through the internet forum of '''BluFik''', and, after its closure, through the new forum run by '''Misiaczek''', a young man from Poznan who most probably never affiliated himself with Spectre.

== Misiaczek affair and Lex Misiaczek ==
Misiaczek's blog was noticed by Poland's largest newspaper,<ref>https://classic.wyborcza.pl/archiwumGW/4915735/-Pozytywna--pedofilia-bedzie-karana-</ref> sparking a moral panic. For several years, the Polish parliament had attempted to ban paedophile propaganda, finally succeeding in 2010 with a total ban carrying a penalty of two years' imprisonment. This was the first such ban in the world, and was explicitly followed by Slovakia, and, on somewhat different grounds and at the judicial level, by the Netherlands. The morale of Spectre was significantly lowered. No communal outings to the concerts were organised, although many of the members attended the concerts of the three choirs on their own initiative.

== 2013 ==
In the winter of 2013, the meeting was to address recent developments in the discourse on paedophilia, including scandalous statements by the Polish episcopate on children's willingness to engage in sex, a new book by a Dutch journalist on child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Poland, the death of Wojiech Krolopp, and the situation of [[Vereniging MARTIJN|Martijn]], among other matters. However, the agenda was overtaken by a book published by journalist Martin Kacki on the (sexual) history of Poznan's boy choirs. The remark by one of the former choristers, that Poznan was saturated with paedophilia, struck the members with something close to dread. What followed, as the minutes themselves bear out, was an extremely heated and sorrowful discussion – one marked, it seems, by real grief – at the end of which the group resolved, with evident sense of injustice, to disband.

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== Further reading ==
Kacki, Martin (2013). ''Maestro.'' Agora.

File:Spectre2005.png

2026-09-01T02:05:58Z

Bookworm:

Scan of a handwritten note from an attendee at Spectre’s 2005 workshop on pressing personal issues, reading: “And what if I never hug? What if there will be no big eyes to smile at? NEVER! I fear. Caressing a pillow – that’s not a life...” The author of the note later died by suicide, one of two Spectre's members known to have done so.

Spectre

2026-09-01T00:01:06Z

Bookworm: Pretty exclusive: Polish Paedophile Movement

<small>'''This article requires further references''', particularly from Polish-language newspapers behind hard paywalls and from Polish-language books. Editors with a reading knowledge of Polish, or those willing to obtain such texts via interlibrary loan and have them machine-translated, are warmly encouraged to assist.</small>

'''Spectre''' (Polish: ''Widmo'') was a post-1989 paedophile group based in Poznan, Poland.

== Pre-history ==
After the Second World War, a man later known as '''Wasaty''' – a committed [[Communism|communist]] – pursued a career within the diplomatic bureaucracy of the Polish People's Republic. When a Dutch delegation including [[Edward Brongersma]] visited Poland in the 1970s, he made contact with the left-wing senator, briefing him on Warsaw's gay, mostly pederast, underground. The contact likely did not last, and was probably only renewed after 1989.

Fascinated by a boy choir from Poznan, he used this underground network to seek contact with people close to the choir, thereby becoming acquainted with a young man from Poznan later known as '''Dzieciokoch''' (a literal Polish rendering of "paedophile"/"childlover"). He frequently invented pretexts of official Party duties to his superiors in order to visit the city, in reality attending the choir's concerts. Poznan had once been home to five boy choirs, though by that time probably only three remained.

Disenchanted with the trajectory communism was then taking, he resigned his official post during the 1980s and settled permanently in Poznan.

== 1990s ==
Poznan had its own pederast underground; by the 1990s, a distinction between gays preferring legal teens and [[Boylove|boylovers]] had emerged, though not a divisive one. The city emerged as a centre for the distribution of European [[Child Pornography|child pornography]] imported from Germany.

In 1994, a group of five men (Wasaty and Dzieciokoch included), having heard a rendering of Bach's ''St Matthew Passion'' under the direction of the choir's newly appointed conductor, resolved that the time had come to establish a formal organisation. Inspired by achievements in the Netherlands, and harbouring a degree of sympathy for the communist era amid the harsh capitalist transformation then under way, they adopted the name '''Spectre'''. Wasaty was appointed chairperson, while Dzieciokoch took on the role of logistician, responsible both for organising meetings and for coordinating materials from allied groups in Germany and the Netherlands.

Until Brongersma's death, contacts between Spectre and the Dutch groups remained reasonably close. The language barrier, however, kept the group from engaging directly with English-language thought, save where translated into Polish, as with certain libertarian anarchist ideas, and it relied largely on German sources.

The manifesto, written in the mid-1990s, would, should the original surface, stand as the earliest modern paedophile [[Boylove Manifesto|manifesto]]. After Wasaty's death, who had wished to bring the group into public activism, Dzieciokoch took over and adopted a far more cautious line, heeding Brongerma's warnings of the movement's imminent collapse, a concern shaped in turn by the former senator's own experience of the Dutroux affair of 1996.

In 1997, during a performance of Mozart's Requiem given in the Netherlands by the Polish Nightingales, Brongersma remarked to Dzieciokoch that he was too weary of life, and that the Requiem might as well have been performed for him. No extant recording of the event confirms Brongersma's presence; nevertheless, the account is rather credible – at least one further active politician, from the conservative party, is known to have attended.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEmZksnIYjM</ref>

Following Brongersma's death, centre of the paedophile movement slowly shifted from Amsterdam and Copenhagen to Berlin. Polish contacts with the Netherlands abruptly ceased. The group concentrated its efforts on maintaining ties with the Berlin chapter of the [[AG–Pädo]], being geographically closer to Poznan.

== Early 2000s ==
From the 1990s onward, Spectre organised its meetings to coincide with the international boy choir festivals held annually in Poznan by the Polish Nightingales. Of these gatherings, only a few minutes of the proceedings remain.

In 2002, the group received warnings from the AG–Pädo concerning a possible infiltration. This intuition proved correct: that same summer, the German journalist Manfred Karremann infiltrated the Berlin chapter of the AG–Pädo, leading to its disbandment. The meeting scheduled for the summer of 2003 was intended to address Spectre's next steps, the group having suddenly found itself isolated from the wider movement. A return to the Dutch contacts was to be proposed, particularly in light of the coming out of [[Marthijn Uittenbogaard]] and [[Norbert de Jonge]]. For reasons unknown to Newgon's informant, however, this was the first annual meeting not to take place.

A month later, Wojiech Krolopp, director of the Polish Nightingales, was arrested and charged with sexual offences against boy choristers. This sent a shockwave through the group still concerned with the possibility of infiltration. A policy of total anonymity was adopted, and any aspirations towards activism were abandoned for good. The group was henceforth to be concerned with nothing more than peer support, and personal international contacts were explicitly forbidden. New members were to be recruited through the internet forum of '''BluFik''', and, after its closure, through the new forum run by '''Misiaczek''', a young man from Poznan who most probably never affiliated himself with Spectre.

== Misiaczek affair and Lex Misiaczek ==
Misiaczek's blog was noticed by Poland's largest newspaper,<ref>https://classic.wyborcza.pl/archiwumGW/4915735/-Pozytywna--pedofilia-bedzie-karana-</ref> sparking a moral panic. For several years, the Polish parliament had attempted to ban paedophile propaganda, finally succeeding in 2010 with a total ban carrying a penalty of two years' imprisonment. This was the first such ban in the world, and was explicitly followed by Slovakia, and, on somewhat different grounds and at the judicial level, by the Netherlands. The morale of Spectre was significantly lowered. No communal outings to the concerts were organised, although many of the members attended the concerts of the three choirs on their own initiative.

== 2013 ==
In the winter of 2013, the meeting was to address recent developments in the discourse on paedophilia, including scandalous statements by the Polish episcopate on children's willingness to engage in sex, a new book by a Dutch journalist on child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Poland, the death of Wojiech Krolopp, and the situation of [[Vereniging MARTIJN|Martijn]], among other matters. However, the agenda was overtaken by a book published by journalist Martin Kacki on the (sexual) history of Poznan's boy choirs. The remark by one of the former choristers, that Poznan was saturated with paedophilia, struck the members with something close to dread. What followed, as the minutes themselves bear out, was an extremely heated and sorrowful discussion – one marked, it seems, by real grief – at the end of which the group resolved, with evident sense of injustice, to disband.

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== Further reading ==
Kacki, Martin (2013). ''Maestro.'' Agora.

Gay Pederast Liberation Front

2026-08-31T20:25:26Z

Bookworm: Created a stub on GPLF

<small>''This article is a stub. Help expand it using gay and newspaper archives.''</small>

The '''Gay Pederast Liberation Front''' (GPLF) was a Philadelphia-based underground militant pederast organisation, active in the post-Stonewall, pre-NAMBLA period. It had contact with [[Ian Dunn]], founder of the British [[Paedophile Information Exchange]] (PIE), who served as its point of contact for an invitation to the first International Gay Rights Congress in Edinborough, where an attempt was made to convene paedophile organisations internationally, probably without success. <ref>https://www.greek-love.com/general-history/sexual-experience-between-men-and-boys-by-rossman/the-response-of-pederasts-to-community-censure-by-rossman#_ftnref4</ref><ref>Bernard, F. (1974). ''Pedofilie.'' Aquarius, p. 119.</ref><ref>https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/uk-travel/scotland-travel/robin-cook-was-linked-to-paedophile-groups-founder-fddcspzmbls</ref>

== References ==

Norwegian Working Group for Paedophilia

2026-08-21T17:53:43Z

Bookworm: Created page with "'''Norwegian Working Group for Paedophilia''' (Norwegian: ''Norsk arbeidsgruppe for pedofili'', '''NAFP''') was a Norwegian association founded to promote acceptance of paedophilia. == Pre-history == === Male homosexuality<ref>Gjerde, B. (2025). No Seduction, No Harm: Public Acceptance of Pedophilia in Norway in the 1970s. Journal of the History of Sexuality 34(3), 517-523. https://doi.org/10.1353/sex.00037.</ref> === The 1902 Penal Code prohibited sexual acts between m..."

'''Norwegian Working Group for Paedophilia''' (Norwegian: ''Norsk arbeidsgruppe for pedofili'', '''NAFP''') was a Norwegian association founded to promote acceptance of paedophilia.

== Pre-history ==
=== Male homosexuality<ref>Gjerde, B. (2025). No Seduction, No Harm: Public Acceptance of Pedophilia in Norway in the 1970s. Journal of the History of Sexuality 34(3), 517-523. https://doi.org/10.1353/sex.00037.</ref> ===
The 1902 Penal Code prohibited sexual acts between men. In practice, it was used mainly when one participant was below 21 and therefore functioned partly as a heightened age of consent. The principal harm was interference with heterosexual development.

In early 20th-century Norway, medical opinion was divided between central European theories of homosexuality as an innate disposition ([[Wikipedia:Magnus Hirschfeld|Magnus Hirschfeld]]) and theories emphasizing sexual development ([[Wikipedia:Sigmund Freud's views on homosexuality|Sigmunt Freud]]). These positions were combined in the '''seduction theory''', according to which sexual activity with older men could cause adolescents to become homosexual.

==== The Great Vice Case of 1937-38 ====
In 1937, police in Bergen investigated a working-class man suspected of receiving numerous visits from young boys. The investigation uncovered loosely organised sexual relations between boys and older men.

A total of 34 men were convicted: 20 for sexual relations with males aged 16–20 and 14 for indecent acts involving minors as young as ten. The trials attracted considerable media attention and became known as “the great vice case”.

Although boys were described as consenting, the case brought contemporary medical and legal concerns about homosexuality as “a danger that some of boys may have their sexual drives disturbed and their capacity for building a home spoiled”<ref>Prosecutor's introductory speech as reported by the contemporary media.</ref> into the public sphere.

Beyond the risk of homosexuality, the principal harm identified by the court and press was an increased likelihood of criminality in adulthood.

==== After WW2 ====
[[Wikipedia:no:Det norske forbundet av 1948|DNF-48]], as an offshoot of the Danish Association of 1948 (Danish: ''Forbundet af 1948''), in its early years challenged the seduction theory and flirted with ideas of free sexuality for all ages. After the highly publicised trial of the Danish association’s founder, Scandinavian gay organisations abandoned radicalism in favour of respectability politics. In the 1950s, the American psychoanalyst Irving Bieber’s work reinforced environmental explanations of homosexuality, including the seduction theory. So in 1957 Øyvind Eckhoff, a key member of the Norwegian gay rights movement, advised men attracted to teenage boys to seek treatment, warning that sexual contact could result in “your partner’s whole life being changed in an undesirable direction.”

==== After 1968 ====
Lutheran state church opposition helped thwart a 1953 proposal to decriminalise homosexual relations while retaining a higher age of consent, leading DNF-48 to campaign for complete repeal during the late 1960s. The organisation promoted the Dutch '''[https://skeivtarkiv.no/en/skeivopedia/speijer-report Speijer report]''', which found no empirical basis for the claim that homosexual experiences permanently altered the orientation of 16–18-year-olds. In 1970, Karen-Christine Friele, leader of DNF-48, wrote in a pamphlet distributed to all members of parliament: “When the association today has a lower age limit of twenty years for membership, this is because we know that a homophile pattern is fixed by that age, and it is thus beyond doubt that the association does not ‘influence’ anyone to engage in deviant behaviour.” DNF-48’s lobbying contributed to repeal of the prohibition in 1972.

=== Man-girl heterosexuality<ref>Gjerde, B. (2025). No Seduction, No Harm: Public Acceptance of Pedophilia in Norway in the 1970s. Journal of the History of Sexuality 34(3), 515-516. https://doi.org/10.1353/sex.00037.</ref> ===
In Norway, the view that child's sexual activity caused little harm had support in contemporary research. In 1932, physician Augusta Rasmussen received the University of Oslo’s research prize for a study of girls who had experienced “sexual attacks”. The original study is lost, but its findings were repeatedly cited. Rasmussen’s conclusions appear to have interpreted later heterosexual marriage and childbearing as absence of childhood harm.

Her work was cited by the well-known psychiatrist Johan Scharffenberg (1934)<ref>“[T]he notion that a sexual experience during childhood usually leaves damaging marks on the mind, is significantly exagerrated.”</ref>, leading Norwegian legal scholars (1951–52), and Alfred Kinsey (1953)<ref>Kinsey, A. C., Pomeroy, W. B., Martin, C. E., & Gebhard, P. H. (2003). ''Sexual behavior in the human female''. Indiana University Press, p. 121. (Original work published 1953)</ref>. In 1960, a government committee similarly described lasting harm as exaggerated: “This is particularly true of cases where the child suffered no violence or brutality”. In 1976, ''Dagbladet'' stated that incest was scientifically considered innocuous. Claims of harmless man–girl sex thus largely reflected, rather than departed from, contemporary expert opinion.

== Early developments ==

=== In the media<ref>Gjerde, B. (2025). No Seduction, No Harm: Public Acceptance of Pedophilia in Norway in the 1970s. Journal of the History of Sexuality 34(3), 512-513. https://doi.org/10.1353/sex.00037.</ref> ===

In January 1973, a conservative magazine ''A-magasinet'' <ref>''Aftenposten-magasinet''</ref> published an article featuring a young psychologist [[Thore Langfeldt]] on the positivity of sexual encounters between preteens, teenagers and adults. In July 1974, a left-liberal ''Dagbladet'' published an op-ed complaining that “even actions [with children] such as touching the sex organs, fellatio and cunnilingus are interpreted as indecency, and long prison sentences are given”. Despite being among the most widely read newspapers in the country, neither publication attracted any media response.

=== Private initiative ===
In October 1974, a future NAFP member wrote to the Attorney General to enquire about his views on reforming morality legislation<ref>https://www.pedofili.eu/Nafp.htm#:~:text=oktober%20svarer%20NAFP.-,Allerede%20ett%20%C3%A5r,-f%C3%B8r%20hadde%20det</ref> as 16 became the gender-neutral age of consent only two years earlier.

Attorney General considered section on sexual intercourse suitable for minor reform or simple restriction to actions with persons under 15, reflecting changing attitudes towards sexuality. He similarly favoured at least partial decriminalisation of incest, potentially retaining punishment for the most serious cases involving violence.

On pornography, he acknowledged that the law had become difficult to enforce, but favoured retaining it for the most extreme pornography, citing its perceived association with sexual offences and violence. He noted that a 1973 amendment, introduced on his initiative, had already limited prosecution to cases where the public interest required it, although its effect was not yet clear.

Finally, he favoured lowering the age threshold from 16 to 14 or 15 for sexual indecency involving minors<ref>Riksadvokaten. (1974, October 7). ''R. 2488/74'' [Scanned historical document]. pedofili.info. https://www.pedofili.eu/Nafp.htm</ref>.

== First years ==
=== 1975 ===
The date of the group’s formation remains unknown. An associate of the University of Oslo met [[Edward Brongersma]] and was inspired by the [[Landelijke Werkgroep Pedofilie|Dutch]] model of activism, which sought, among other things, to shape university environments. In Norway, this was to be adapted to the main campus of the University of Oslo. Thanks to him, Thore Langfeldt became immersed in the topic of paedophilia. A third participant, who became increasingly involved, author of the letter to the Attorney General, later became NAFP's first leader<ref>https://www.pedofili.eu/Nafp.htm#:~:text=Historien%20til%20NAFP%20tar%20til</ref>.

==== Summer: initial moves ====
The group’s first information sheet (1975) stated that it had “good connections with the sociological and psychological research community”<ref>NAFP. (1975). ''Pedofili arbeidsgruppe'' [Scanned historical document], p. 1. pedofili.info. https://www.pedofili.eu/Nafp.htm</ref>. To avoid internal distinctions, it was decided not to use terms such as “pederast” or “ephebophile”, but to adopt “paedophile”. NAFP had no formal membership structure, although some individuals occasionally paid dues<ref>https://www.pedofili.eu/Nafp.htm#:~:text=NAFP%20ble%20aldri%20organisert</ref>.

In July 1975, ''Dagbladet'' reported on the working group in a daring article entitled “Sex with Children”. Citing research by [[Frits Bernard]], it claimed that paedophilic sex had positive effects on both parties. It also criticised a state-broadcaster radio programme for portraying adults attracted to children negatively, calling it “propaganda of fear”.

The article prompted a debate. One anonymous self-identified paedophile claimed that little girls with whom he had had sexual encounters were safer with him than in their mothers’ arms. The producer of the criticised programme felt compelled to refute the allegations, without addressing that the attack came from an advocate of sex between adults and children. Others described such relations as rape and criticised ''Dagbladet'' for publishing the man’s letter, arguing that the newspaper should not “contribute to a moral legalisation of abnormalities, be it paedophilia, homophilia, necrophilia etc”. A reply criticised the conflation of homosexuality with paedophilia and necrophilia.

''Dagbladet'' ended the one-and-a-half-month debate by publishing the author of the first article, who challenged the equation of paedophilia with rape.<ref>Gjerde, B. (2025). No Seduction, No Harm: Public Acceptance of Pedophilia in Norway in the 1970s. Journal of the History of Sexuality 34(3), 514. https://doi.org/10.1353/sex.00037.</ref>

==== Bulletin ====
NAFP-Bulletin was the journal published by the group from 1975 to 1981.

NAFP stated there its objective as follows:
<blockquote>
''The Paedophilia Working Group seeks to shed light on the emotional and sexual bonds between young people and adults. Women and men who are involved in the emotional lives of children and young people are welcome in the group, which is a forum for all debates about children and sexuality.''
</blockquote>
The Bulletin was printed in black-and-white offset in A5 format, with issues ranging from 12 to 20 pages. Its layout appears to have been produced by hand. The 1975 and 1976 issues were stencil- rather than offset-printed.

Each issue could include editorial letters, book reviews, announcements of meetings and events, travel accounts, personal narratives and short notices. Addresses of international groups were also published. The Bulletin contains some photographs of children, predominantly boys, several naked. Short English-language summaries appear in some issues, reflecting its international distribution.<ref>https://www.pedofili.eu/Bulletin.htm</ref>

==== Autumn: meeting with the Ministry of Justice ====
A meeting with the Ministry of Justice was held on 24 November 1975<ref>Referat fra møte om seksuell omgang med mindreårige. (1975, November 24). ''Riksarkivet (Norwegian National Archives), DNF-48 Archive, RA/PA-1216/D/Dk/L0002, folder “Seksuell lavalder 1974–75,”'' pp. 3–6. Oslo, Norway.</ref>, following a letter from the group’s leader proposing a reduction of the age of consent to 14 years of age<ref>NAFP. (1975, October 14). ''Vurderinger om endring i straffelovens kap. 19 om forbrytelser mot sedeligheten'' [Scanned historical document], p. 2. pedofili.info. https://www.pedofili.eu/Nafp.htm</ref>. It brought together senior officials from the justice and health sectors, including the Attorney General. NAFP’s position was represented by Thore Langfeldt and another sexologist.

Much of the discussion concerned Langfeldt’s research on pederastic relationships between prepubescent boys and adult men<ref>Gjerde, B. (2025). No Seduction, No Harm: Public Acceptance of Pedophilia in Norway in the 1970s. Journal of the History of Sexuality 34(3), 525. https://doi.org/10.1353/sex.00037.</ref>. His private audio archive included testimonies from boys involved in such relationships, including cases also known to the judiciary<ref>NAFP. (1975, October 14). Vurderinger om endring i straffelovens kap. 19 om forbrytelser mot sedeligheten [Scanned historical document], p. 1. pedofili.info. https://www.pedofili.eu/Nafp.htm</ref>. He stated that “both of those who are involved [in the pederastic relationships] must be considered heterosexuals”<ref>Referat fra møte om seksuell omgang med mindreårige. (1975, November 24). ''Riksarkivet (Norwegian National Archives), DNF-48 Archive, RA/PA-1216/D/Dk/L0002, folder “Seksuell lavalder 1974–75,”'' p. 1. Oslo, Norway.</ref> and that the cases “did not seem to involve any element of sexual exploitation on the part of the adult”<ref name="meeting">https://www.pedofili.eu/Nafp.htm#:~:text=Langfeldt%20sier%20at%20%22de%20tilfellene</ref>.

Concerns were raised that boys might be influenced towards homosexuality, and that such relationships could lead to a “vegetative lifestyle”<ref>Gjerde, B. (2025). No Seduction, No Harm: Public Acceptance of Pedophilia in Norway in the 1970s. Journal of the History of Sexuality 34(3), 525-526. https://doi.org/10.1353/sex.00037.</ref>. One official remarked that “most parents would react sharply if, for example, sports managers, teachers etc. had sexual relations with some of the young people they worked with”<ref name="meeting" />.

The Attorney General proposed lowering the age of consent to 14, as in Sweden and Denmark, though primarily in relation to heterosexual relations, and argued that narrowly defined offences would be difficult to enforce<ref name="meeting" />. The minutes noted that the sexologists’ assertions “were built on a somewhat thin scholarly basis”<ref>Referat fra møte om seksuell omgang med mindreårige. (1975, November 24). ''Riksarkivet (Norwegian National Archives), DNF-48 Archive, RA/PA-1216/D/Dk/L0002, folder “Seksuell lavalder 1974–75,”'' p. 5. Oslo, Norway.</ref>.

=== 1976-1977 ===
NAFP, as declared in its first information sheet, maintained a cautious public profile – contrary to its vocal ally Thore Langfeldt<ref name="p.524">Gjerde, B. (2025). No Seduction, No Harm: Public Acceptance of Pedophilia in Norway in the 1970s. Journal of the History of Sexuality 34(3), 524. https://doi.org/10.1353/sex.00037.</ref> – while awaiting proposed reforms to Norway’s criminal and morality legislation. The expected Criminal Report was first postponed from autumn 1976 and then deferred until after the 1977 general election. Bulletin no. 2 (1976) acknowledged that questions such as the age of sexual consent were a “delicate political problem”. Bulletin no. 4 noted that parliamentary debate on criminal law was limited, particularly when morality legislation was under revision.<ref>https://www.pedofili.eu/Nafp.htm#:~:text=Ekspedisjonssjef%20Arne%20Haugestad%20ledet</ref>

For several years after 1975, NAFP members didn't appear in the mainstream media under their full names. The organisation nevertheless continued publishing its ''Bulletin'', publicly distributing approximately 50–60 copies<ref>https://www.pedofili.eu/Nafp.htm#:~:text=P%C3%A5%20det%20meste%20var%20dette</ref> to parliamentarians, libraries, institutions of higher education, and others it sought to influence.<ref name="p.524" />

NAFP also maintained international contacts. In 1976, Thore Langfeldt and another activist attended the second annual meeting of the International Academy of Sex Research in Hamburg. In 1977, Langfeldt and Bernard attended the British Psychological Society conference “Love and Attraction” at University College Swansea, which attracted tabloid attention because of its participants, including Tom O’Carroll, who was ejected by security staff<ref>Gadsby Basannavar, N. R. (2018). ''Speaking about speaking about child sexual abuse in Britain, 1965–1991'' [Doctoral dissertation, Birkbeck, University of London], 176.</ref>, and Edward Brongersma, who subsequently withdrew.<ref>Thomson, M. (2013). ''Lost freedom: The landscape of the child and the British post-war settlement.'' Oxford University Press, 175.</ref> Bernard appears to have attracted no attention.<ref>Gjerde, B. (2025). No Seduction, No Harm: Public Acceptance of Pedophilia in Norway in the 1970s. Journal of the History of Sexuality 34(3), 533. https://doi.org/10.1353/sex.00037.</ref> Langfeldt presented a paper arguing that sexual relations between adults and children should be legalised to “pay respect to the children’s feelings and emotions”.<ref>Langfeldt, T. (1979). Processes in sexual development. In M. Cook & G. Wilson (Eds.), ''Love and attraction: An international conference'' (p. 497). Pergamon.”</ref>

The Swedish '''[[Paedophilia Working Group]]''' (''Pedofila Arbetsgruppen'', '''PAG''') was founded shortly after NAFP. In 1977 and 1978, PAG and NAFP organised several joint Swedish–Norwegian meetings in both countries.<ref name="p.534">Gjerde, B. (2025). No Seduction, No Harm: Public Acceptance of Pedophilia in Norway in the 1970s. Journal of the History of Sexuality 34(3), 534. https://doi.org/10.1353/sex.00037.</ref>

In 1977, NAFP reported in a Dutch journal:
<blockquote>
''Here in Norway we are optimistic in our reform work. I think NAFP has done a lot of progress. The present situation for pedophilian feeling people is far from hopeless.''<ref name="niks">NVSH-LWGP. (1977). From NAFP (Norway). ''N.I.K.S.'', (4), 51.</ref>
</blockquote>

==== Child pornography debate ====
In the summer of 1977, the Norwegian female-led<ref>https://www.pedofili.eu/Nafp.htm#:~:text=Redakt%C3%B8r%20av%20Lek%20p%C3%A5%20den</ref> pornographic magazine ''Lek'' published an issue containing nude photographs of children and fictional narratives depicting sexual relations between adult men and girls aged twelve to thirteen. The controversy was taken up by ''Arbeiderbladet'', a leading national newspaper and a mouthpiece for the labour movement.

The newspaper's coverage included an interview with Langfeldt, who characterised child pornography as an expression of “sexual liberation” and asserted that sexual relations between adults and children were not harmful. Langfeldt then went further, publishing his own article, “Child Sexuality,” directly in ''Lek'''s following issue. He opened by praising the magazine's handling of children's sexuality as “serious”. He further wrote:
<blockquote>
''Boys also make each other horny, and this is completely normal. We also find this in girls. Boys also play intercourse with each other. They lie on top of each other and insert their members between the other person’s thighs. Some also engage in anal intercourse. In later years it has become more common for boys to suck each other. The age difference between the boys is sometimes big, without this being in any way abnormal. It is normal for adults to be turned on by sex and sexual initiatives or sex games by children. Many adults get frightened when they sense that sexual games among children or initiated by children also turn them [the adults] on, and some adults then react in anger to suppress their own sexuality, which they fear.''
</blockquote>

This piece ran alongside further nude photographs of pre-adolescents, including close-ups of their genitals.

''Arbeiderbladet'' journalist Brita Ingeberg and Labour politician Tone Bratteli Jamholt – known for her interest in child protection – responded, condemning the magazine for publishing what they termed child pornography and took issue with Langfeldt's defence of adult–child sexual contact. However, their substantive case against such acts was thin: they characterised the behaviour as “unnatural” and warned it might cause “psychic pain” that would “make it difficut for them to experience a natural sex life later.”

Three accompanying interviews similarly offered little on the harms of adult–child sexual contact, with only the special education teacher briefly noting that “[t]hose children who have experienced sexual abuse from adults — and quite a few of them have — are not doing well.” Coverage overall focused more on the impropriety of publishing naked images of children than on refuting Langfeldt's position.<ref>Gjerde, B. (2025). No Seduction, No Harm: Public Acceptance of Pedophilia in Norway in the 1970s. Journal of the History of Sexuality 34(3), 526-527. https://doi.org/10.1353/sex.00037.</ref>

Langfeldt responded in ''Dagbladet'' with an article titled "Puritanical Relapses," writing:
<blockquote>
''We can therefore see that political extremism, suppression of various forms of sexual expression, censorship of erotic scenes in films, magazines and books, and strong opposition to sexual openness are interconnected.''<ref>https://www.pedofili.eu/Nafp.htm#:~:text=Vi%20kan%20alts%C3%A5%20se%20at%20politisk%20ekstremisme</ref>
</blockquote>

Langfeldt closed the debate by writing an article for Norway's largest tabloid (circulation 156,000)<ref>''Statistisk årbok 1978.'' (1978). Statistisk sentralbyrå, 362.</ref>, where he was identified as a child psychologist, school psychologist, and sexologist. He wrote that his work "breathes life into puritanical currents" and drew attention to children's sexuality, arguing it was important not to leave children feeling they had committed a criminal act because of erotic feelings. He stated that "some young boys and girls have strong sexual desires towards adults" and that "intimate physical contact is often a sexual release for this phenomenon."<ref>https://www.pedofili.eu/Nafp.htm#:~:text=Thore%20Langfeldt%20tituleres%20som</ref>

A year later, Langfeldt wrote what was probably his last text favourable towards paedophilia.<ref>https://www.pedofili.eu/Nafp.htm#:~:text=Tiden%20var%20i%20ferd%20med</ref>

== Change of strategy ==
=== 1978: paedophile weekend meeting ===
In 1978, Frits Bernard embarked on a world tour promoting paedophile liberation. NAFP marked his visit to Norway by organising a "paedophile weekend meeting," featuring talks with Bernard, Langfeldt, Friele, and NAFP members. One member reported having met with “the political leadership of the Department of Justice,” said to be sympathetic to NAFP's concerns and to favour basing child-protection law on assault alone. Bernard expressed surprise that the meeting was not promoted as vigorously as equivalent events in the Netherlands. Karen-Christine Friele, Secretary General of DNF-48, attended as a private individual; her book ''From Oppression to Rebellion'' (Norwegian: ''Fra undertrykkelse til opprør'') had drawn NAFP's interest, prompting the invitation. She addressed the gathering, drawing parallels between paedophile liberation and gay liberation and urging attendees not to accommodate religiously conservative anxieties about sexuality outside marriage. Her address, concluding "Paedophiles should show pride in their feelings! Don't let yourselves be cowed!", was met with strong applause and reportedly made the strongest impression of the meeting. Langfeldt also spoke, describing paedophiles he had encountered who had likely been too apprehensive to approach an organisation such as NAFP. The weekend concluded with discussion of founding an international paedophile organisation, to be called Amnesty for Love and Affection, uniting existing national and local working groups as chapters.<ref name="p.534" /><ref>NAFP. (1978). Pedofil weekend-treff. ''Bulletin,'' (3), 5–6, 12.</ref>

=== 1979: Amnesty for Love and Affection ===
In late June 1979, NAFP organised an international paedophilia conference in Oslo, titled Amnesty for Love and Affection, in cooperation with DNF-48, [[Wikipedia:no:KROM – Norsk forening for kriminalreform|Norwegian Association for Criminal Reform]], and [[Wikipedia:no:Arbeidsgrupper for Homofil Frigjøring|Working Groups for Gay Liberation]].<ref>https://www.pedofili.eu/Nafp.htm#:~:text=%27Amnesty%20for%20love%20and%20affection%27%20ble%20arrangert</ref> Sources indicate attendance figures ranging from 35<ref name="pan">In brief... (Oslo, Norway) (1979, August). ''PAN, 1''(2), 6.</ref> to 80,<ref name="kontiki">''Pedofili i Norge.'' (1979). ''Kontiki,'' (16), 9.</ref> likely reflecting the fact that the conference spanned several days. Attendees came from Great Britain, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Sweden, and Norway,<ref name="kontiki" /> and included a representative from the [[Wikipedia:Indianerkommune|Indianerkommune]], a Norwegian police officer who had lost his job over mutual masturbation with a fifteen-year-old boy,<ref>CSC. (1979, December). Amnesty for love and affection. ''Nusletter, 1''(5).</ref> and a member of the Norwegian parliament.<ref name="pan" /> As proceedings were probably conducted in English throughout, no language barriers arose.<ref>Middleton, W. (Ed.). (1986). ''The betrayal of youth: Radical perspectives on childhood sexuality, intergenerational sex, and the social oppression of children and young people.'' CL Publications, 224.</ref>

The keynote speaker, Thore Langfeldt, gave a historical account of attitudes towards paedophilia and criticised the seduction theory. Frits Bernard presented research arguing that sexual relations with adults benefited children. Karen-Christine Friele also spoke, calling for a lowered age of consent and urging attendees to debate whether NAFP should pursue a “total liberation of child sexuality” or a more moderate strategy of gradually lowering the age of consent. Tom O'Carroll spoke about his recent experience as leader of the [[Paedophile Information Exchange]].<ref name="p.530">Gjerde, B. (2025). No Seduction, No Harm: Public Acceptance of Pedophilia in Norway in the 1970s. Journal of the History of Sexuality 34(3), 530.</ref><ref>O'Carroll made no mention of this conference in his book ''Paedophilia: The Radical Case''.</ref> Edward Brongersma was invited but did not attend.<ref>NAFP. (1979, May 18). ''[Letter to Amnesty International, Norwegian section]'' [Scanned historical document].</ref>

==== Invitations ====
Invitations were extended to Amnesty International, major newspapers and tabloids, the University of Oslo's Institute of Criminology and Criminal Law, and the Director of Health; funding was sought from the Ministry of Justice but not granted. The Swedish magazine ''Revolt'' was unable to attend but requested any materials produced. The Swedish Federation for Sexual Education and a representative of the Norwegian Bar Association accepted their invitations.

Responses from feminist quarters were notably mixed: a journalist from the feminist magazine ''Sirene'' (circulation of 25000 copies) initially accepted before withdrawing, proposing instead to interview an NAFP representative at a later date, while the Labour Party's women's secretariat declined to attend owing to other commitments, but wished NAFP well and requested a copy of any conference report.<ref>https://www.pedofili.eu/Nafp.htm#:~:text=Her%20er%20et%20knippe%20av%20dem</ref>

==== Media reactions ====
During the conference, the organisers held a press conference. The state broadcaster's daily news programme reported on the event and interviewed Wenche Lowzow, a Conservative MP who earlier that year had become the first Norwegian parliamentarian to come out as homosexual; she expressed agreement that the age of consent should be lowered. A press agency produced a short article based on the press conference, which was subsequently printed in at least eight newspapers, including the widely read conservative papers ''Aftenposten'' and ''Morgenbladet''.<ref name="p.530" /> The reporting was considered to be factual.<ref name="pan" />

==== Aftermath ====
Amnesty for Child Sexuality was founded by a working group the day after the Oslo conference, likely intended to be headquartered in Oslo, with Bernard among its board appointees.<ref name="pan" /> It withered away for unknown reasons without becoming a functioning international organisation.<ref>Gjerde, B. (2025). No Seduction, No Harm: Public Acceptance of Pedophilia in Norway in the 1970s. Journal of the History of Sexuality 34(3), 534-535. https://doi.org/10.1353/sex.00037.</ref>

The dream of an international body persisted. In 1980, PIE circulated a letter proposing a “Paedophile International,” but language barriers and other difficulties led to a second failed attempt. [[Ipce|IPCE]] (International Paedophile and Child Emancipation) was eventually founded in 1987 as an international forum for paedophiles.<ref>Gjerde, B. (2025). No Seduction, No Harm: Public Acceptance of Pedophilia in Norway in the 1970s. Journal of the History of Sexuality 34(3), 535. https://doi.org/10.1353/sex.00037.</ref>

== Decline and dissolution ==
After 1980, political interest waned. Stories of PIE and [[NAMBLA]] prosecutions damaged morale heavily and discouraged participation. The editor withdrew from the ''Bulletin'' in 1981, reverting it to a stencilled edition.<ref>https://www.pedofili.eu/Nafp.htm#:~:text=Etter%201980%20ble%20det%20tydelig</ref> ''Bulletin'' had given way to the cheaper, more informal ''Minibulletin''.

Identified problems included an unclear organisational structure, over-reliance on a few members, limited membership (just over twenty paying subscribers, fewer than fifty overall), financial strain, high publication costs, and weak continuity – leaving NAFP, in effect, “a local social club in Oslo.”<ref>NAFP. (1981). Hvordan står det til med NAFP? ''Bulletin,'' (2), 3.</ref>

This mirrored a later pattern among other European groups spared the prosecutions faced by PIE or [[CRIES]]: German [[AG-Pädo]] chapters became social clubs in the late 1990s, Poland's [[Spectre]] after 2003, and remaining Dutch NVSH groups after 2006.<sup>[citation needed]</sup>

=== Merging with DNF-48<ref>https://www.pedofili.eu/Nafp.htm#:~:text=Det%20begynte%20med%20et%20%C3%B8nske</ref> ===
There was a desire within NAFP to “find other ways to work”. Relations with other sexual minority groups were generally good at the time. Ties between NAFP and DNF-48 developed over several years, aided by Friele's attendance at NAFP's 1978 weekend meeting, sympathetic coverage in DNF-48's magazine ''Fritt Fram'', and DNF-48's role in organising the 1979 Amnesty for Love and Affection conference. Earlier collaboration was eased by DNF-48's radical [[Communism|Marxist]] youth wing, before its expulsion for attempting to merge DNF-48 with wider left-wing politics.<ref>https://skeivtarkiv.no/skeivopedia/fellesradet-homofile-og-lesbiske-organisasjoner-i-norge-fho</ref><ref>https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Det_norske_forbundet_av_1948#1970-tallet</ref> In late 1979, DNF-48 sought talks with NAFP to develop shared thinking on paedophilia, partly to address misunderstandings encountered when lecturing at youth clubs.

Through 1981–82, NAFP discussed formal union with DNF-48. Members attracted to girls voiced concern at being marginalised, and were reassured that membership was open regardless of orientation, though organising for their own interests remained their responsibility. Negotiations also raised questions over DNF-48's stance towards those attracted to young children. Individuals, rather than NAFP as a body, would join directly, forming a paedophile group within the Association, while NAFP itself remained dormant rather than dissolved; DNF-48's leadership, noting the shifting political climate, framed this as an act of solidarity.

Priorities centred on boy–man relationships, reflecting NAFP's membership, with goals including lowering the age of consent, improved counselling, legal protection for sexual minorities, and a planned ''Fritt Fram'' issue on paedophilia. In April 1982, a group from NAFP formally joined DNF-48 on terms set out in a membership leaflet for the new ''Paedophile Group DNF-48''.

=== Tabloid coverage and media reactions ===
In November 1982, journalist Knut Boge published an exposé in ''Aktuell Rapport'', "Toddlers – free game for horny adults?", after contacting the Pedophile Group DNF-48 for background material. The piece prompted a sharp exchange with the group; a later issue carried an apology for having wrongly linked psychologist Thore Langfeldt to it. The affair thrust NAFP into the media spotlight as never before. Another tabloid interviewed the group later that month, with Langfeldt again distancing himself, while other papers ran more sensational coverage linking abuse to broader theories of causation. ''Aftenposten'' later criticised the tabloids' stance as hypocritical. The controversy also strained relations within DNF-48, prompting an exchange of letters between its Oslo and national boards over the winter of 1982–83.

=== The end ===
New DNF-48 leadership subsequently declared NAFP's inclusion incompatible with the Association. A passionate farewell text read:
<blockquote>
''So let's hope that [this pig journalist] can sleep better when the paedophiles don't raise their voices, as if there will be fewer of us then. May the magazine's editor drop dead in the arms of a twelve-year-old girl on one of their prostitution trips to Bangkok, or wherever they are now traveling on "reportage" trips.''

''(...)''

''The conclusion is therefore: Most of our members like boys in puberty. These can call themselves homosexuals, and should do so. They can then gain entry into DNF and continue to work for a real understanding that the age limits are unreasonable.''

''This is also more realistic than what PG has stood for. There are significantly more people who would accept voluntary sex with a 14-year-old than with a 6-year-old.''

''For the toddler paedophiles, and for the heterosexual paedophiles, what has happened means a clear deterioration. They now have to sit in their respective boxes and keep their mouths shut, until one day they explode and rape toddlers or kill themselves,.. [o]r they can write to NAFP. with the hope that someone will respond.''
</blockquote>

== Ideology ==
The group initially set out to advocate for both sexes – including children and youth of both sexes – but later narrowed its focus to what might now be described as a [[Boylove|boylove]] worldview. Its political leanings, while adjacent to radical Marxism, remain unclear. Developments in Sweden shifted the group's stance on feminism, if it had one to begin with, toward non-public – but still negotiable and overturnable – hostility.<ref name="niks" /> In retrospect, the liberal-left editor of pedofili.info laments the group's failure to be more attuned to contemporary social movements. In private correspondence with Newgon, he confided that he had always found the group "too elitist".

== See also ==
* [[Thore Langfeldt]]
* [[Frits Bernard]]
* [[Thomas O'Carroll]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== Sources ==
* Gjerde, B. (2025). No Seduction, No Harm: Public Acceptance of Pedophilia in Norway in the 1970s. Journal of the History of Sexuality 34(3), 505-538. https://doi.org/10.1353/sex.00037.

== External links ==
* [http://pedofili.eu/Nafp.htm |Norwegian| Pedofili.info page on NAFP]

Theo Sandfort

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Bookworm:

{{Template:Ac}}'''Theodorus Gustavus Maria (Theo) Sandfort''' (b. Haarlem, January 3, 1953) is, since 2001, a research scientist at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, and is associate professor of clinical sociomedical sciences in psychiatry, Columbia University (NY).

== Early career ==

After completing his secondary education at the Roman Catholic Triniteitslyceum in Haarlem (September 1965 – July 1970), he began his studies in 1974 at the Catholic University of Nijmegen. He obtained a bachelor's degree in October 1976 and a master's degree in December 1979, graduating ''cum laude'' with a major in social psychology. In May 1980, he commenced employment at the State University of Utrecht, where he was appointed as a research assistant at the Sociological Institute until September 1981.

== Studies on homosexual paedophilia, hebephilia and ephebophilia ==

While at the Sociological Institute, he conducted empirical research on children's and young people's sexual experiences. From September 1981 to December 1982, he was employed as a scientific assistant at the Institute for Clinical Psychology and Personality Studies, where he carried out a methodological preliminary study as part of the project ''Sexual Experiences in Early Childhood''. Between April 1983 and April 1988, he conducted a retrospective study in the Department of Clinical Psychology, examining how early childhood sexual experiences influence later sex-related behaviour and the way young people perceive and relate to sex.

This period marked the development of his most influential contributions to the MAP community. Along with several television and radio appearances in which he discussed non-negative aspects of MAP relationships, he conducted interviews with 25 males aged 10 to 16 who were involved in sexual relationships with legally defined adult men, and subsequently published a series of reports based on these conversations.<ref>For a summary of Sandfort's research and response to his critics, see: Robert Bauserman, [https://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/bauserman_objectivity.htm ''Objectivity and Ideology: Criticism of Theo Sandfort’s Research on Man-Boy Sexual Relations'']</ref> Since March 1986, Theo Sandfort and [[Rob Geensen]] served as editors of ''[[Sekstant]]'', a publication of the NVSH ([[Dutch Society for Sexual Reform]]), which included a working group on youth emancipation, formerly known as the [[Landelijke Werkgroep Pedofilie]] (LWGP). From 1987 until its cessation in 1995, he served on the editorial board of ''[[Paidika|Paidika: The Journal of Paedophilia]]''.

After earning his PhD in 1988 with a dissertation titled ''The Meaning of Experience: on Sexual Contacts in Early Youth, and Sexual Behavior and Experience in Later Life'', and as an openly gay researcher, he made a significant shift in focus toward AIDS prevention and public health advocacy. In 1990, he remained marginally involved in the field and, together with [[Edward Brongersma]] and [[Lex van Naerssen]], served as guest editor for a special issue of the ''Journal of Homosexuality'' titled ''Male Intergenerational Intimacy''. Sandfort also reported on [[Intergenerational Lesbianism]] and interviewed a female [[MAP]], as part of ''Paidika's'' Special Women's Issue.<ref>[https://brongersma.info/Paidika-08 Theo Sandfort, "The World Bursting with Adults, so I'm Always Glad to See a Little Girl". Paidika - The Journal of Paedophilia, Volume 2, Number 4, Issue 8; Special Women's Issue; Edited by Marjan Sax & Sjuul Deckwitz; Winter 1992].</ref>

After winning a legal case concerning defamation related to accusations of [[CSA]], he ceased his research on the subject.<ref>Burns, M. (2023). The elephant in the room: Youth sexuality. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 52(6), 2281–2284. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-023-02624-4</ref> After moving to the USA, he privately confirmed to [[Martijn]] in written correspondence that he had no commitment to the topic, at least for the time being. In 2011, he publicly announced that a historical discussion on paedophilia 'is a laudable endeavour, but I don't want to be involved. Good luck with the plan!'.<ref>"Zij die niet mee wilden doen" [Those who did not want to participate]. Geschiedenis 24 – Andere Tijden. March 17, 2011. Retrieved from https://www.geschiedenis24.nl/andere-tijden/afleveringen/2010-2011/Ruimte-voor-de-pedofiel/Zij-die-niet-mee-wilden-doen.html</ref>

==Later career==

Since April 1988, he was appointed as an additional researcher at the Interfaculty Working Group on Gay Studies at Utrecht University, where he conducted research on changes in knowledge, attitudes, and behavior related to sexuality and HIV/AIDS within the Dutch population. He later became chairman of the group. He also served as Director of the research program ''Diversity, Lifestyles and Health'' at the [[Netherlands Institute of Social Sexological Research]] (NISSO).

In 2001, he relocated to the United States.

Excluding ''Paidika'', Sandfort has served on the editorial boards of several academic journals, including ''[[Archives of Sexual Behavior]]'' and ''[[Sexualities]]'', edited by [[Ken Plummer]]. He has also held leadership roles as President of the International Academy of Sex Research and the Dutch Society of Sexology. In 2008, he was awarded the [[John Money]] Award by the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality in recognition of his contributions to sex research.

== 2021 controversy ==

In 2021, as reported by [[Thomas O'Carroll]],<ref>[https://heretictoc.com/2021/01/13/should-a-child-ever-get-married/ NEW YORK ‘CANCELS’ THEO SANDFORT]. H-TOC segment. (2021).</ref> Sandfort was "cancelled" over renewed attention to his past research. An incendiary topic, ''The New York Times''<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/nyregion/nyc-foster-care-professor-pedophilia.html NYT on Sandfort]</ref> among other outlets spotlighted and debated the research and its merits. As a result of publicity, Sandfort was removed from his then work project after the local ''Administration for Children’s Services'' (ACS) announced that it had "severed all ties" with Dr. Sandfort. After this brief cancellation, it appears that Sandfort has continued to secure/retain employment, conduct research, and participate in other projects.

==Selected publications [in English]==

*Sandfort, T. [Book]. ''[https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Sexual_Aspect_of_Paedophile_Relation.html?id=Z8WkpwAACAAJ The Sexual Aspects of Paedophile Relations: The Experiences of Twenty-Five Boys]'' ([[PAN]]/[[Spartacus_International_Gay_Guide|Spartacus]], 1981).

*Sandfort, T. (1983). [https://brongersma.info/images/1983_Sandfort.pdf Pedophile relationships in the Netherlands: Alternative lifestyle for children?]. ''Alternative Lifestyles'' 5(3), pp. 164-183.<ref>Sandfort, T. Pedophile relationships in the Netherlands: Alternative lifestyle for children?. J Fam Econ Iss 5, 164–183 (1983). <https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01091326></ref>

*Sandfort, T. (1984). [https://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/sandfort_84.htm Sex in pedophilic relationships: An empirical investigation among a non-representative group of boys]. ''Journal of Sex Research'', 20(2), 123–142.

*Sandfort, T. [Book]. [https://www.ipce.info/host/sandfort_87/index.htm Boys on their contacts with men: A study of sexually expressed friendships], (New York: Global Academic Publishers, 1987).<ref>[https://www.mhamic.org/sources/sandfort.htm Discussion on MHAMic].</ref> a copy on [https://web.archive.org/web/20130420132340/http://snifferdogonline.com/reports/Child%20Abuse,%20Sexuality%20and%20Violence/Boys%20On%20Their%20Contacts%20With%20Men.pdf webarchive]

*Sandfort, T. [https://sci-hub.wf/10.1300/j082v13n02_08 ‘Pedophilia and the Gay Movement’], ''Journal of Homosexuality'' (1987).<ref>[https://doi.org/10.1300/J082v13n02_08 Original journal non sci-hub link].</ref>

*Sandfort, T. [https://brongersma.info/Paidika-08 "The World Bursting with Adults, so I'm Always Glad to See a Little Girl"]. ''Paidika - The Journal of Paedophilia'', Volume 2, Number 4, Issue 8; Special Women's Issue; Edited by [[Marjan Sax]] & Sjuul Deckwitz; Winter 1992.

*Sandfort, T. (1992). '[[Media:Sandfort_-_1992_-_Argument_for_Adult-Child_Sex_scan.pdf|The argument for adult-child sexual contact: A critical appraisal and new data]]'. In W. O'Donohue & J. H. Geer (Eds.), ''The sexual abuse of children: Theory and research'' (Vol. 1, Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, pp. 38-48).

*Sandfort, T. (1994). "The Sexual Experiences of Children". [[Paidika]]. 3 (2).

*Sandfort, Theo; Rademakers, Jany, eds. (2000), ''[http://library.lol/main/F2E882F42AE89852A1E1FDAFCE38246F Childhood Sexuality: Normal Sexual Behavior and Development]'', Haworth Press.

*Udell et al. (2010). [https://www.ipce.info/library/journal-article/relationship-between-early-sexual-debut-and-psychosocial-outcomes-longitudin The relationship between early sexual debut and psychosocial outcomes: A longitudinal study of Dutch adolescents], ''Archives of Sexual Behavior''.

==See also==
<div style="column-count:3;-moz-column-count:3;-webkit-column-count:3">
*[[Edward Brongersma]]
*[[Thomas O'Carroll]]
*[[Vern Bullough]]
*[[Gert Hekma]]
*[[Donald Mader]]
*[[William Percy]]
*[[David Thorstad]]
*[[John P. De Cecco]]
*[[Journal of Homosexuality]]
*[[Ken Plummer]]
*[[Gilbert Herdt]]
*[[Bruce Rind]]
*[[Philip Tromovitch]]
*[[Agustin Malon]]
*[[Gerald Jones]]
</div>

==References==

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Theo Sandfort

2025-05-16T20:51:24Z

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{{Template:Ac}}'''Theo Sandfort''' (in full: Theodorus Gustavus Maria Sandfort) is, since 2001, a research scientist at the HIV center for clinical and behavioral Studies, and is associate professor of clinical sociomedical sciences in psychiatry, Columbia University. Trained as a social psychologist, before joining the center, he was a tenured Associate Professor at the Department of Clinical Psychology at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and later the Chairman of the Interfaculty Department of Lesbian and Gay Studies at Utrecht University. He was Director of the Research Program “Diversity, Lifestyles and Health”, at the ''Netherlands Institute of Social Sexological Research'' (NISSO). Dr. Sandfort is / was on the Editorial Board of several academic journals, including [[Archives of Sexual Behavior]], [[Ken Plummer]]'s ''Sexualities'', and [[Paidika]]. He served as President of the the ''International Academy of Sex Research'' and the Dutch Society of Sexology and, in 2008, received the [[John Money]] Award from the ''Society of the Scientific Study of Sexuality'' for his research work.

Among [[MAP]]s, [[AAM]]s and their allies, Sandfort is known for his research on man/boy sexual relationships and early childhood sexuality. While a lecturer in psychology at the State University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, he interviewed 25 young males ranging in age from 10 to 16 who were currently involved in sexual relationships with legally defined adult men, and published various reports of the interviews. For a summary of Sandfort's research and response to his critics, see: Robert Bauserman, ''Objectivity and Ideology Criticism of Theo Sandfort’s Research on Man-Boy Sexual Relations'',<ref>[https://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/bauserman_objectivity.htm Objectivity and Ideology Criticism of Theo Sandfort’s Research on Man-Boy Sexual Relations]</ref> in [[Journal of Homosexuality]], vol. 20, (1990). Sandfort also reported on [[Intergenerational Lesbianism]] and interviewed a female [[MAP]], as part of [[Paidika|Paidika's]] Special Women's Issue.<ref>[https://brongersma.info/Paidika-08 Theo Sandfort, "The World Bursting with Adults, so I'm Always Glad to See a Little Girl". Paidika - The Journal of Paedophilia, Volume 2, Number 4, Issue 8; Special Women's Issue; Edited by Marjan Sax & Sjuul Deckwitz; Winter 1992].</ref>

In 2021, as reported by [[Thomas O'Carroll]],<ref>[https://heretictoc.com/2021/01/13/should-a-child-ever-get-married/ NEW YORK ‘CANCELS’ THEO SANDFORT]. H-TOC segment. (2021).</ref> Sandfort was "cancelled" over renewed attention to his past research. An incendiary topic, ''The New York Times''<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/nyregion/nyc-foster-care-professor-pedophilia.html NYT on Sandfort]</ref> among other outlets spotlighted and debated the research and its merits. As a result of publicity, Sandfort was removed from his then work project after the local ''Administration for Children’s Services'' (ACS) announced that it had "severed all ties" with Dr. Sandfort. After this brief cancellation, it appears that Sandfort has continued to secure/retain employment, conduct research, and participate in other projects.

==Selected publications [in English]==

*Sandfort, T. [Book]. ''[https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Sexual_Aspect_of_Paedophile_Relation.html?id=Z8WkpwAACAAJ The Sexual Aspects of Paedophile Relations: The Experiences of Twenty-Five Boys]'' ([[PAN]]/[[Spartacus_International_Gay_Guide|Spartacus]], 1981).

*Sandfort, T. (1983). [https://brongersma.info/images/1983_Sandfort.pdf Pedophile relationships in the Netherlands: Alternative lifestyle for children?]. ''Alternative Lifestyles'' 5(3), pp. 164-183.<ref>Sandfort, T. Pedophile relationships in the Netherlands: Alternative lifestyle for children?. J Fam Econ Iss 5, 164–183 (1983). <https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01091326></ref>

*Sandfort, T. (1984). [https://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/sandfort_84.htm Sex in pedophilic relationships: An empirical investigation among a non-representative group of boys]. ''Journal of Sex Research'', 20(2), 123–142.

*Sandfort, T. [Book]. [https://www.ipce.info/host/sandfort_87/index.htm Boys on their contacts with men: A study of sexually expressed friendships], (New York: Global Academic Publishers, 1987).<ref>[https://www.mhamic.org/sources/sandfort.htm Discussion on MHAMic].</ref> a copy on [https://web.archive.org/web/20130420132340/http://snifferdogonline.com/reports/Child%20Abuse,%20Sexuality%20and%20Violence/Boys%20On%20Their%20Contacts%20With%20Men.pdf webarchive]

*Sandfort, T. [https://sci-hub.wf/10.1300/j082v13n02_08 ‘Pedophilia and the Gay Movement’], ''Journal of Homosexuality'' (1987).<ref>[https://doi.org/10.1300/J082v13n02_08 Original journal non sci-hub link].</ref>

*Sandfort, T. [https://brongersma.info/Paidika-08 "The World Bursting with Adults, so I'm Always Glad to See a Little Girl"]. ''Paidika - The Journal of Paedophilia'', Volume 2, Number 4, Issue 8; Special Women's Issue; Edited by [[Marjan Sax]] & Sjuul Deckwitz; Winter 1992.

*Sandfort, T. (1992). '[[Media:Sandfort_-_1992_-_Argument_for_Adult-Child_Sex_scan.pdf|The argument for adult-child sexual contact: A critical appraisal and new data]]'. In W. O'Donohue & J. H. Geer (Eds.), ''The sexual abuse of children: Theory and research'' (Vol. 1, Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, pp. 38-48).

*Sandfort, T. (1994). "The Sexual Experiences of Children". [[Paidika]]. 3 (2).

*Sandfort, Theo; Rademakers, Jany, eds. (2000), ''[http://library.lol/main/F2E882F42AE89852A1E1FDAFCE38246F Childhood Sexuality: Normal Sexual Behavior and Development]'', Haworth Press.

*Udell et al. (2010). [https://www.ipce.info/library/journal-article/relationship-between-early-sexual-debut-and-psychosocial-outcomes-longitudin The relationship between early sexual debut and psychosocial outcomes: A longitudinal study of Dutch adolescents], ''Archives of Sexual Behavior''.

==See also==
<div style="column-count:3;-moz-column-count:3;-webkit-column-count:3">
*[[Edward Brongersma]]
*[[Thomas O'Carroll]]
*[[Vern Bullough]]
*[[Gert Hekma]]
*[[Donald Mader]]
*[[William Percy]]
*[[David Thorstad]]
*[[John P. De Cecco]]
*[[Journal of Homosexuality]]
*[[Ken Plummer]]
*[[Gilbert Herdt]]
*[[Bruce Rind]]
*[[Philip Tromovitch]]
*[[Agustin Malon]]
*[[Gerald Jones]]
</div>

==References==

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Will H. L. Ogrinc

2025-05-16T20:40:54Z

Bookworm:

{{Template:Ac}}'''Will H.L. Ogrinc''' (died 2018) was a Professor in Ancient and Medieval History at Hogeschool Rotterdam & Omstreken in the Netherlands. He graduated in Medieval History at Utrecht State University, and published an enlarged version of his doctoral thesis about western alchemy in the ''Journal of Medieval History'' (1980).<ref>[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1016/0304-4181(80)90030-5 Western Society and Alchemy from 1200 to 1500] (1980).</ref> He was a lecturer in History of the Teachers' Training Colleges at Utrecht, Delft and Rotterdam (1978-2015). From 1989-1997, he was a secretary to the Dr. [[Edward Brongersma]] Foundation, and, from 1990-1995, he was a member of the Editorial Board of ''[[Paidika]]'': ''The Journal of Paedophilia'' and published many detailed studies of previously under-researched historical MAPs. Later, he graduated as a Humanities and Social Sciences Bibliographer (GO-C) at The Hague, qualifying him to undertake a monumental bibliography of male childhood and adolescence, published in 2017 as ''Boyhood and Adolescence, Ephebophilia, Hebephilia, and Paedophilia: A Selective Bibliography'' (1040 pages). This work is the first international comprehensive bibliography of boyhood and male adolescence, with special attention to [[ephebophilia]], [[hebephilia]] and [[pedophilia]].

He published a contribution to the famous scholarly compendium on "Intergenerational Intimacy" (1991), published as a special issue in the [[Journal of Homosexuality]]<ref>[https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wjhm20/20/1-2 "Intergenerational Intimacy" (1991) special issue].</ref> (with guest editors [[Theo Sandfort]], [[Edward Brongersma]], and [[Alex Van Naerssen]]), titled "Boys in Art: The Artist and His Model".<ref>Boys in Art (1991). [https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.1300/J082v20n01_07 Sci-hub link].</ref> The volume was simultaneously published as a book entitled ''Male intergenerational intimacy: Historical, socio-psychological, and legal perspectives''.

==Works==

*Will H.L. Ogrinc, "Neither to Laugh nor to Cry: A Failure in the End: [[Charles Filiger]] (1863-1928)", ''Paidika'' (1988).

*Will H. L. Ogrinc, "Street Urchins: [[Antonio Mancini]] (1852-1930)", ''Paidika'' (1991).

*Will H.L. Ogrinc, "A Shrine to Love and Sorrow: [[Jacques d'Adelsward-Fersen]] (1880-1923)", ''Paidika'' (1994).

*Will H.L. Ogrinc, ''Boyhood and Adolescence, Ephebophilia, Hebephilia, and Paedophilia: A Selective Bibliography'' (1040 pages, 2017).<ref>[https://greek-love.com/media/PDFs/Ogrinc.Bibliography.pdf Boyhood and Adolescence, Ephebophilia, Hebephilia, and Paedophilia: A Selective Bibliography {pdf}]</ref> Contains (annotated) references in more than twenty-five languages, from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present, and covers a wide range of topics, such as anthropology, (auto)biography, dance, diaries, education, history, law, letters, literature, medicine, music, sexuality and social sciences, visual arts. This book is the authoritative compendium of knowledge on these topics.

==References==

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Frits Bernard

2025-05-15T19:20:38Z

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{{Template:Ac}}[[Image:FritsBernard.jpg|thumb|left|Frits Bernard]]__NOTOC__'''Frits Bernard''' (August 28, 1920 in Rotterdam<ref name="ok">Uittenbogaard, Marthijn (2005) [http://www.martijn.org/info/OK92_1.html Een gesprek met Dr. Frits Bernard - man van het eerste uur] ("A long interview with Dr Frits Bernard"), [[MARTIJN|OK magazine]], 92.</ref> – May 23, 2006<ref>[https://brongersma.info/A_conversation_with_Dr_Frits_Bernard_-_Pioneer ''A Conversation With Dr Frits Bernard – Pioneer''], originally Vereniging MARTIJN, May 2006.</ref>) was a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[psychology|psychologist]], [[sexology|sexologist]], [[LGBT social movements|homosexual activist]], and campaigner for more liberal attitudes and laws on [[minor-adult sex|minor-adult sexual relationships]]. Bernard founded the ''Enklave kring'', which led to the International Enclave Movement, in the late 1950s<ref name="dutch">[http://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/dutch_movement_text.htm ''The Dutch Paedophile Emancipation Movement'']: Dr. Frits Bernard in Paidika: The Journal of Paedophilia, volume 1, issue 2, Autumn 1987, pages 35-45</ref>, and has been described as a founder of the entire pro-pedophilia movement.<ref name="ok" /> He was also an author, a member of the Association for the Advancement of Social Scientific Sex Research's board of directors<ref name="dutch" />, and founder of the [[Bernard Foundation]].<ref>C. C. (2004). [https://web.archive.org/web/20030821194127/https://martijn.org/page.php?id=206074 Concealed partiality in the 'quality press'], OK magazine, 74.</ref>

At seven, Bernard moved to [[Spain]] to attend the Internationale Duitse School in Barcelona. He returned to the Netherlands during World War II, studying at the Universiteit van Amsterdam and the Catholic University of Nijmegen.<ref>[https://www.ipce.info/library_3/files/visser_memo_fb.htm In Memoriam: Frits Bernard, 1920 - 2006].</ref> In the late 1950s, Bernard joined the [[COC]], a Dutch [[LGBT]] organization. He argued in favor of [[pedophilia]] in the COC's publication, ''Vriendschap'', using the pseudonym "Victor Servatius."<ref name="ok" /> He became active in the [[Dutch Society for Sexual Reform]] around 1970.
[[File:F. Bernard 1981.jpg|thumb|right|alt=Frits Bernard|As a NVSH-LWGP chairman]]

==Further background==

''See [https://web.archive.org/web/20220126073927/http://www.williamapercy.com/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Bernard,_Fritz WilliamAPercy.com]''

[[Image:Frits.jpg|thumb|left|The young Bernard]]Initially Dr. Bernard and Dr. Edward Brongersma, the other 'big name' in Dutch pederast and pedophile activism, had worked together in the COC, and both had important essays in the pioneering Dutch collection seeking understanding for intergenerational relationships, ''Sex met kinderen'', in 1972. In 1975 the two men broke with one another – officially over Brongersma's attacks on Bernard's book ''Pedofilie'', the report on Bernard's psychological research on a sample of pedophiles largely drawn from the workgroups. This work was subsequently expanded and translated into German as ''Pädophilie. Liebe mit Kinderen'', 1979, further revised as ''Kinderschänder?'', 1982, and, in abridged form, translated into English as ''Paedophilia: A Factual Report'', 1985. This same material provided the basis for literally hundreds of articles (his 1992 bibliography runs to 34 pages) which Bernard had published and translated into dozens of languages, as far afield as Japan, but particularly in Germany, where he was an active figure in the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Humane Sexualität (AHS). The feud between the two 'giants' simmered on for years, with Bernard, writing under another pseudonym, “dr Ernst Otto Born”, sniping at Brongersma's subsequent work.

Bernard's activism for pedophilia and pederasty was not limited to scientific work, or to organizing, but also included two novels, which he wrote during the 1950s. The first, ''Costa Brava'', portrays the relationship between the novel's narrator and a twelve-year-old refugee boy during the Spanish Civil War, and the second, ''Vervolgde Minderheid'' (''Persecuted Minority''), the relationship between an adult and a high school student in Amsterdam after the Second World War. Both were self-published under his pseudonym of Victor Servatius in 1960, followed by a second Dutch edition in 1984 under his own name, and translations into German (1979 and 1980, respectively), French (1989 and 1992, respectively) and English (1982 (in Gay Sunshine Journal) and 1988, and 1989, respectively). Although the relationship in the former is disrupted by the boy's family falsely telling the man that the boy has died, after he succeeds in reuniting the boy with his family, it ends with a bittersweet chance encounter years later when they can affirm their love for each other; ''Persecuted Minority'' ends less happily, with the man's imprisonment for their relationship, and his commitment to emigrate and escape the hostile atmosphere of The Netherlands – an atmosphere that, while it may have softened for a few years in the 1970s, Dr. Bernard lived to see re-emerge with incredible vengeance in the 1990s.

==Publications==

*[[Pedophilia Unbound]], a translation of ''Pädophilie ohne Gretzen'', [[Media:Fritsbernard pedunbook.pdf|download a copy]] - the book seeks to fill a gap in understanding of sexual attraction between children and adults by presenting insights from both scientific and practical perspectives, and suggests the possibilities of pedophile emancipation.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130420133549/http://snifferdogonline.com/reports/Child%20Abuse,%20Sexuality%20and%20Violence/Fritz%20Bernard%20-%20Paedophilia,%20A%20Factual%20Report.pdf Paedophilia. A factual report.] (1985) - a report on several topics such as [[Research: Secondary Harm|secondary harm]] done to child by social attitudes and reactions, and statistics deconstructing popular stereotypes of pedophile's social inadequacy

==External links==

*[https://www.boywiki.org/en/Frits_Bernard BoyWiki]
*[https://infogalactic.com/info/Frits_Bernard Infogalactic]
*[https://www.gay-news.com/article/1574/Frits-Bernard--Dutch-Pioneer-Of-Boy-Love-Emancipation--Dies-At-86/ Gay News Profile]

==See also==
<div style="column-count:3;-moz-column-count:3;-webkit-column-count:3">
*[[Edward Brongersma]]
*[[Thomas O'Carroll]]
*[[Vern Bullough]]
*[[Gert Hekma]]
*[[Donald Mader]]
*[[William Percy]]
*[[David Thorstad]]
*[[John P. De Cecco]]
*[[Journal of Homosexuality]]
*[[Ken Plummer]]
*[[Gilbert Herdt]]
*[[Bruce Rind]]
*[[Philip Tromovitch]]
</div>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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File:F. Bernard 1981.jpg

2025-05-15T19:17:40Z

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Frits Bernard in a TV interview

Ad van den Berg

2025-05-15T07:05:29Z

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__NOTOC__[[Image:Berg.JPG|thumb|350px|Ad van den Berg]]'''Ad van den Berg''' (18 March 1944 - 01 Feb 2023)<ref>Notice of Death on old FST, now unavailable at '''freespeechtube.org/v/19l2''' with no archives</ref><ref>[https://www.ad.nl/haarlem/voormalig-pedofielenleider-ad-van-den-berg-overleden-na-langdurige-ziekte~aae5939e/ Ad.nl Nieuws on passing]</ref><ref>[https://www.nhnieuws.nl/nieuws/314291/pedo-voorvechter-ad-van-den-berg-overleden NH Nieuws - on passing]</ref> was a veteran 1st-wave [[Minor Attracted Person|MAP]] Activist, former treasurer of the [[PNVD]] and former leader of [[MARTIJN]]. He assisted with the PNVD, after it was reformed in 2020, but it was dissolved after a lawsuit against its founders and subsequent events involving their expatriation to South America.

Van den Berg was a minor TV personality in the Netherlands, having taken part in various documentaries and been pursued on film by [[Vigilantism|vigilantes]]. He caused a stir on 31 May 2006 after he explained to the cameras of NOVA (current affairs program) what his newly founded party stood for, and also described his [[pedophilia]].

Van den Berg was multilingual, an admirer of [[Edward Brongersma]], and also known for his combative approach, which he stated had only hardened since zeitgeist institutions started to close ranks upon initiatives he has been involved with. He was known for accepting any invitation to live TV debates, but refusing to participate in recorded interviews due to post-production concerns.

===According to [[Thomas O'Carroll]]===

[[File:Ad van den Berg.png|thumb|right|225px|alt=Ad van den Berg during a TV interview|As a Martijn member in the 1990s]] <blockquote>Ad van den Berg, at 78 an old warrior of my own generation, was president of MARTIJN, and active in the group from its earliest days after it was founded in 1982. His formative years, like mine, were in the sexual revolution of the 60s and 70s, when freedom was in the air and – definitely like me until recent years – he does not appear to have been very inhibited by the [[Age of Consent]] laws, having been convicted in 1987 for a relationship (which he said was platonic) with an 11-year-old boy, and also a child pornography offence in 2010. It is now alleged that illegal images were also found in this latest raid, and my understanding is that this will not be contested.<ref>[https://heretictoc.com/2020/05/24/hanging-in-there-in-hengelo-hotspot/ HTOC: Hanging in there, Hengelo Hotspot]</ref></blockquote>

==Historical legal issues==

Van den Berg has in the past been handed a suspended sentence for a relationship with an 11 year old boy, who was manipulated into "confessing" after being indoctrinated with myths about AIDS and homosexuality.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20171019163808/https://www.pnvd.nl/boete_Ad.jpg Web Archive: Ad van Den Berg - PNVD]</ref> In 2006, threats were made by vigilantes at his former holiday address in the municipality of Westvoorne. He has also been convicted twice for possession of images of children.<ref>[https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/inziendocument?id=ECLI:NL:GHAMS:2013:3192 2012/13 CP Conviction]</ref><ref>[https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/inziendocument?id=ECLI:NL:RBROT:2020:10242 2020/21 CP Conviction]</ref>

==2021 prosecution==

[[File:Advan2.png|thumb|Ad van den Berg]]
In March 2021, [[Marthijn Uittenbogaard]] announced that he, van den Berg, [[Norbert de Jonge]] and [[Nelson Maatman]] were being prosecuted for allegedly participating in a criminal organisation. The evidence offered by the prosecution was spurious, alleging that [[MAP visibility on Twitter|Twitter]] comments and the maintenance of an academic website constituted the continuation of an organisation deemed 'criminal' under a highly controversial Dutch law.<ref>https://marthijn.nl/p/218</ref> Along with Maatman, Van den Berg did not end up being sentenced to prison. His colleagues were less lucky, fleeing to South America in the ensuing chaos detailed in Maatman's article. He repeatedly vowed to assist his colleagues and stated that his group would start legal action against [[Free A Girl]] Foundation following media misrepresentations.

By 2023, his health had deteriorated and he died within two days of his last online communications.

==Videos==

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27Im3-_A64Q Interview with a sexologist (in Dutch, on Belgian TV)] - Video in which he appears to share a glass of wine and lighthearted banter with a female journalist (Dutch).
:*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-5XXnEihl8&t=32s Subsequent interview] - This led to the sexologist's sacking. Towards the end, she reveals a copy of [[Tiger, Tiger: A Memoir]], so it must have gotten deep.
*[https://fstube.net/w/uSpeDmXvL6uoDgK444v7o5 Interview with Prof Hoko Horii (in English)] - Video interview with [[Hoko Horii]] about scientific research into consensual sex contacts. Previously available at '''freespeechtube.org/v/166x'''.

==External links==

*[https://krumme13.org/news.php?s=read&id=5030 K13 Tribute with photos (in German)]
*[https://ketzerschriften.org/ Ketzerschriften] - Blog and archive on which he was an editor
*[https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_van_den_Berg_%28activist%29 Dutch Wikipedia]

==References==

[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:People]][[Category:People: Sympathetic Activists]][[Category:People: Deceased]][[Category:Law/Crime]][[Category:Law/Crime: Dutch]][[Category:History & Events: Real Crime]][[Category:Cyber Activism]][[Category:People: Dutch]][[Category:People: Adult or Minor sexually attracted to or involved with the other]]

File:Ad van den Berg.png

2025-05-15T07:01:08Z

Bookworm:

Ad van den Berg during a TV appearance

Tricky Questions

2025-05-15T06:04:34Z

Bookworm: Some answers for a progressive interviewer

In progress:

A list of swift replies to tricky "gotcha" questions posed by interviewers. The emphasis is on interview-compatible responses.

'''Can you give me an example of the effects of criminal proceedings on adults being whitewashed?'''

Ideas: Adverse consequences for adult, moral scheme deprioritizes experiences of false accused (give example).

'''This girl says she was dead inside, her trust was abused and her soul was destroyed. And this is what you are defending?'''
I’m no ear doctor, but you’re dangerously deaf. Let's try to reiterate then: I’m appalled by the abuse – likely more than you, since my heart’s got more on the line. What I’m after isn’t tears – it’s joy. Love, not casualties. I’m sorry she endured anything less.

'''A child of 12 is too young to understand what is happening to them.'''
I trust you have a source firmer than your imagination, because the last time I checked, authorities admit kids twelve – and younger – are devoted sex ed attendees. In fact, they are so devoted that we are finally considering banning these patriarchal classes that cannot manage checking if their audience has crossed the ever-so-arbitrary line of “maturity.”

'''Once the age of consent is reduced to 12, how low will you go?'''
As low as consent. However defined for every individual. And if your idea of sex with a random-year-old is limited to just ‘penis-in-a-hole,’ I’m afraid you’re already a lost cause – caught in the grip of a stubborn patriarchal infection.

'''You claim to be giving young people a voice, but isn't this all about the desires of the perverted men who front these organizations?'''
Sadly, except for a handful of niche feminists, it’s perverted men who are desperate to give young people a voice – and the vote. If we’re to be judged, let it come from the kids, not from fake progressives. Remember Fridays for Future? Nothing screams "progress" like ignoring the very voices one claims to champion.

'''Just last week, feds uncovered the largest porn ring in history, involving some of the worst type of abuse images. And this is what you want to make legal?'''
Thank God I don't want to make it moral. Nor do I want to make legal all the production. Simple possession – yes. However disgusting. Actually, you want to flood us with porn. I bet even victims dream we masturbate ourselves out of existence.

'''As an abuse survivor, I know just how horrific these experiences are, and how the minor is manipulated. As an apologist, you will never know'''
I may never feel that, but don’t mistake my skepticism for ignorance – the media has served up enough cautionary tales about adults manipulating kids. I’m open to a real conversation; you, unfortunately, seem closed for debate. If we can’t start there, how can we hope to build a better world?

'''Come sit in my court and see the parade of girls whose lives are ruined by people to whom you are providing comfort. You can sit with me for a week on your promise to make a public apology for every case. (Credit: Simon Myerson QC [UK state-appointed advocate/trial lawyer])'''

[a]No need to sprinkle cheap sentiment over stories that are tragic enough on their own. The media’s already doing the heavy lifting, so I don’t need your courtroom. But do try to keep up – if you rely on random divorce therapists for insight, you might accidentally conclude marriage should be banned altogether, might you not?

[b]You know nothing about prevalences of self-perceived abuse or negative adjustment outcomes in the general population. You work from and come to your conclusions from a criminally-biased sample, and are quite frankly not knowledgeable enough to opine on this subject without further research. [At this point the most recent broad [[Research|study]] should be cited].