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[[Steven Angelides|Angelides]], [[Helmut Graupner|Graupner]], [[Philip Tromovitch|Tromovitch]], [[Allyn Walker|Walker]] 
[[Charles Moser|Moser]], [[Karl Andersson|Andersson]], [[Judith Butler|Butler]], [[Jacob Breslow|Breslow]], [[Gayle Rubin|Rubin]] 
[[Stephen Kershnar|Kershnar]], [[Peter Singer|Singer]], [[Bruce Rind|Rind]], [[Diederik Janssen|Janssen]], [[Mark Smith|Smith]] 
[[Thomas Hubbard|Hubbard]], [[Hoko Horii|Horii]], [[Gilbert Herdt|Herdt]], [[Lee Edelman|Edelman]], [[Elizabeth Loftus|Loftus]] 
[[Rachel Hope Cleves|Cleves]], [[Nicholas Syrett|Syrett]], [[Leonardo Arce Vidal|Arce Vidal]], [[Bill Thompson|Thompson]] 
[[Slavoj Žižek|Žižek]], [[Theo Sandfort|Sandfort]], [[Kieran McCartan|McCartan]], [[Edmund White|White]] 
[[Simon Goldhill|Goldhill]], [[Juliette Rennes|Rennes]], [[Kerry Robinson|Robinson]], [[Kathryn Bond Stockton|Stockton]] 
[[Pierre Verdrager|Verdrager]], [[Michael Seto|Seto]] 
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[[Valerie Sinason|Sinason]], [[Gene Abel|Abel]], [[Alvin Malesky|Malesky]], [[David Finkelhor|Finkelhor]] 
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[[Terry Leahy|Leahy]], [[Gary Dowsett|Dowsett]], [[Pat Sikes|Sikes]], [[Patrick Califia|Califia]], [[Frans Gieles|Gieles]] 
[[Richard Yuill|Yuill]], [[James Kincaid|Kincaid]], [[Camille Paglia|Paglia]], [[Thore Langfeldt|Langfeldt]] 
[[LeRoy G. Schultz|Schultz]], [[Walter L. Williams|Williams]], [[Rudiger Lautmann|Lautmann]] 
[[Marjan Sax|Sax]], [[Warren Farrell|Farrell]], [[Joel Best|Best]], [[Philip Jenkins|Jenkins]] 
[[Chin-Keung Li|C. K. Li]], [[Paul Okami|Okami]], [[Allie C. Kilpatrick|Kilpatrick]], [[Martin Dannecker|Dannecker]] 
[[Dean Durber|Durber]], [[Gunter Schmidt|Schmidt]], [[Stevi Jackson|Jackson]], [[Carolyn Cocca|Cocca]]
 
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[[Mary de Young|De Young]], [[Stephanie Dallam|Dallam]] 
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[[Michel Foucault|Foucault]], [[Alfred Kinsey|Kinsey]], [[Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg|Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg]], [[Hubert Kennedy|Kennedy]], [[William Percy|Percy]] 
[[David Sonenschein|Sonenschein]], [[Beatrice Faust|Faust]], [[Stephen Wayne Foster|Foster]], [[Donald Mader|Mader]] 
[[Gert Hekma|Hekma]], [[Floyd Martinson|Martinson]], [[Vern Bullough|Bullough]], [[Frits Bernard|Bernard]] 
[[Warren Johansson|Johansson]], [[Guy Hocquenghem|Hocquenghem]], [[John P. De Cecco|De Cecco]] 
[[René Schérer|Schérer]], [[Helmut Kentler|Kentler]], [[Volkmar Sigusch|Sigusch]], [[Michael C. Baurmann|Baurmann]] 
[[Sir Richard Burton|Burton]], [[Leonard Davis|Davis]], [[Katharina Rutschky|Rutschky]], [[Preben Hertoft|Hertoft]], [[Eberhard Schorsch|Schorsch]] 
[[Edward Brongersma|Brongersma]], [[Will H. L. Ogrinc|Ogrinc]], [[Ken Plummer|Plummer]], [[Jeffrey Weeks|Weeks]] 
[[John Money|Money]], [[Tony Duvert|Duvert]], [[Michael Ingram|Ingram]], [[Richard Green|Green]], [[Harris Mirkin|Mirkin]] 
[[William Simon|Simon]], [[John Gagnon|Gagnon]], [[Donald West|West]], [[Tom Reeves|Reeves]], [[Charles Shively|Shively]] 
[[David T. Evans|Evans]], [[John Holt|Holt]], [[Clarence Tripp|Tripp]], [[Paul D. Hardman|Hardman]], [[Wilhelm Reich|Reich]] 
[[Herman Musaph|Musaph]], [[Thomas Szasz|Szasz]], [[Lars Ullerstam|Ullerstam]], [[Joan Nestle|Nestle]] 
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[[Judianne Densen-Gerber|Densen-Gerber]], [[Judith Reisman|Reisman]], [[Charles Whitfield|Whitfield]], [[Paul Fink|Fink]] 
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[[Queer Theory]], [[Feminism]], [[Consent]] 
[[Minor-adult sex]], [[Child Sexual Abuse|CSA]], [[Paraphilia]] 
[[Sexceptionalism]], [[Sexualization]] 
[[Heteronormativity]], [[Transgender youth and attraction to minors|Trans youth]] 
[[Hebephilia]], [[Pedophilia]], [[Teleiophilia]] 
[[Censorship]], [[Chris Brand]], [[Moral panic]] 
[[Preventionism]], [[Minor Attracted Person]] 
[[Masturbation]], [[Inner child]], [[Child Sexual Behaviour Inventory|CSBI]] 
[[IICSA]], [[Child Pornography|CSAM]], [[Covert incest]] 
[[Pedophilia themed OCD|POCD]], [[Teen Dating Violence]] 
[[Repressed memory]], [[Anal wink]] 
[[Kent State Study]], [[Rind et al]], [[CSA Accommodation Syndrome|CSAAS]] 
[[COPINE Scale]], [[Cognitive distortion (pseudoscience)|Cognitive distortion]] 
[[Adolescence]], [[Abel screening]] 
[[Actuarial testing]], [[Penile Plethysmography|Plethysmography]] 
[[Erwin Schrodinger]], [[Carleton Gajdusek]] 
[[David Riegel]], [[Jordan Peterson]] 
[[Wikipedia censorship of MAP related topics|Wikipedia]], [[Sexual rites of passage|Rites of passage]] 
[[Medicalism]], [[Evolving capacity]] 
[[Nocebogenic harm]], [[Moral Recruitment]] 
[[Intrinsic harm]] 
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[[B4U-ACT]], [[Percy Foundation|PF]], [[Ipce]], [[AASECT]] 
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[[NARTH]], [[The Leadership Council|TLC]] 
[[Office of Justice Programs|OJP]], [[NSPCC]], [[American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children|ASPAC]] 
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Herman Musaph

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{{Template:Ac}}Prof. '''Herman Musaph''' (Dutch: Heijman Musaph) (7 January 1915 – 18 November 1992) was a Dutch Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist, dermatologist and sexologist.

In 1977, Musaph became Professor of Medicine at the University of Utrecht. With [[John Money]], he co-authored the influential ''Handbook of Sexology'' (1977) which emphasized the critical role of early mother-child skin contact in fostering healthy psychological and sexual development, linking touch deprivation to later abnormal behaviors. This book was a 1,402-page compendium which synthesized global research on human sexuality, spanning biology, psychosexual development, and disorders; it was later translated into multiple languages and praised as a foundational collection for the field.

In the same year, Musaph founded the [[NVSH|Dutch Society for Sexual Reform]] (NVSH), which was notably sympathetic to non-normative sexual identities and practices, including [[MAP]]s. His efforts culminated in the establishment of the Dr. Herman Musaph Prize for Medical Sexology in 1991, awarded by Dutch medical bodies to recognize advances in the discipline. Musaph's approach prioritized causal links between psychological trauma and sexual expression, critiquing overly moralistic frameworks in favor of observable physiological and relational dynamics.

Musaph made supportive statements about [[pedophilia]] and [[Accounts_and_Testimonies|non-coercive age-gap sex]] in various publications and outlets.<ref>See [https://brongersma.info/Category:Herman_Musaph "Herman Musaph" in the Brongersma online archive]. [Results will require translation for non-Dutch speakers]. If you can read Dutch, see, for example, Artikel [https://brongersma.info/Klinische_lessen_-_Pedofilie 'Klinische lessen - Pedofilie'] door Prof. Dr. H. Musaph; Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde 124, nr. 51; 1980.</ref> [[Theo Sandfort]] cited Musaph in some of his past writings on [[pedophilia]], and it is likely that Musaph at one point had considerable impact and influence on Dutch academic and intellectual opinion, having been a senior, well-respected and well-published figure by the time he made non-condemnatory statements about pedophilia.

He was the winner of the Magnus Hirschfeld Medal in 1990, and the Herman Musaph Foundation for Psychodermatology is named in his honor. Musaph fell ill during a meeting of the European Society in Paris in late 1992. He died on 18 November 1992 in Amsterdam, aged 77, from heart failure.

==References==

[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Research]][[Category:Research on Minor Attraction]][[Category:Research on "Child Molesters"]][[Category:Research into effects on Children]][[Category:Research: Broader Perspectives]][[Category:People]][[Category:People: Dutch]][[Category:People: Deceased]][[Category:People: Academics]][[Category:People: Critical Analysts]][[Category:People: Sympathetic Activists]][[Category:People: Popular Authors]]

Herman Musaph

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Prof. '''Herman Musaph''' (Dutch: Heijman Musaph) (7 January 1915 – 18 November 1992) was a Dutch Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist, dermatologist and sexologist.

In 1977, Musaph became Professor of Medicine at the University of Utrecht. With [[John Money]], he co-authored the influential ''Handbook of Sexology'' (1977) which emphasized the critical role of early mother-child skin contact in fostering healthy psychological and sexual development, linking touch deprivation to later abnormal behaviors. This book was a 1,402-page compendium which synthesized global research on human sexuality, spanning biology, psychosexual development, and disorders; it was later translated into multiple languages and praised as a foundational collection for the field.

In the same year, Musaph founded the [[NVSH|Dutch Society for Sexual Reform]] (NVSH), which was notably sympathetic to non-normative sexual identities and practices, including [[MAP]]s. His efforts culminated in the establishment of the Dr. Herman Musaph Prize for Medical Sexology in 1991, awarded by Dutch medical bodies to recognize advances in the discipline. Musaph's approach prioritized causal links between psychological trauma and sexual expression, critiquing overly moralistic frameworks in favor of observable physiological and relational dynamics.

Musaph made supportive statements about [[pedophilia]] and [[Accounts_and_Testimonies|non-coercive age-gap sex]] in various publications and outlets.<ref>See [https://brongersma.info/Category:Herman_Musaph "Herman Musaph" in the Brongersma online archive]. [Results will require translation for non-Dutch speakers]. If you can read Dutch, see, for example, Artikel [https://brongersma.info/Klinische_lessen_-_Pedofilie 'Klinische lessen - Pedofilie'] door Prof. Dr. H. Musaph; Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde 124, nr. 51; 1980.</ref> [[Theo Sandfort]] cited Musaph in some of his past writings on [[pedophilia]], and it is likely that Musaph at one point had considerable impact and influence on Dutch academic and intellectual opinion, having been a senior, well-respected and well-published figure by the time he made non-condemnatory statements about pedophilia.

He was the winner of the Magnus Hirschfeld Medal in 1990, and the Herman Musaph Foundation for Psychodermatology is named in his honor. Musaph fell ill during a meeting of the European Society in Paris in late 1992. He died on 18 November 1992 in Amsterdam, aged 77, from heart failure.

==References==

[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Research]][[Category:Research on Minor Attraction]][[Category:Research on "Child Molesters"]][[Category:Research into effects on Children]][[Category:Research: Broader Perspectives]][[Category:People]][[Category:People: Dutch]][[Category:People: Deceased]][[Category:People: Academics]][[Category:People: Critical Analysts]][[Category:People: Sympathetic Activists]][[Category:People: Popular Authors]]

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[[File:519525527-275720908-0ca81e0a958846fb.png|thumb|The "Five Heads" of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao, plus [[Tom O'Carroll]].]]__NOTOC__
[[Youth rights]], including the sexual liberation of children, is compatible with some interpretations of '''communism'''/'''socialism''' (these terms are used interchangeably by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, but are sometimes distinguished by Leftist individuals and tendencies). '''Anarchist''' thinking has also supported young people's autonomy.<ref>See for example: [https://annas-archive.org/md5/8083c68d89de429de502a36f7304890f ''Trust Kids!: Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy'', ed. by Carla Bergman (AK Press: Chico, CA, 2022)]. See also, [https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/topic/no-against-adult-supremacy NO! Against Adult Supremacy] - from the Anarchist Library. We have also made pages for various Anarchists, such as [[Hakim Bey]], [[René Schérer]], [[Wolfi Landstreicher]], and [[Sebastien Faure]].</ref> One Reddit post<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/CapitalismVSocialism/comments/owqdft/bourgeois_vs_proletarian_sexuality/</ref> claims that "by contemporary standards, Jenny von Westphalen "groomed" Karl Marx", as does a short youtube video.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92z_OrPN7z8 Jenny von Wesphalen groomed Karl Marx], by Benjamin Ingram (external link)</ref> Marxism views the nuclear [[family]] as a means for the subordination of children and women, exploitation upon which capitalism is supposedly dependent. [[Family values]] -- monogamy, homophobia, sexual suppression/repression, and other enemies of free love -- are enforced to maintain the traditional family unit. According to some communists/socialists, extending rights to the young would undermine the father's place of power and interrupt the inheritance of class and acceptance of classist models.

==Marx and Engels on age-gap sex==

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''What, then, does promiscuous sexual intercourse really mean? It means the absence of prohibitions and restrictions which are or have been in force. We have already seen the barrier of jealousy go down. If there is one thing certain, it is that the feeling of jealousy develops relatively late. The same is true of the conception of incest. Not only were brother and sister originally man and wife; sexual intercourse between parents and children is still permitted among many peoples today. Bancroft (The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America, 1875, Vol. I), testifies to it among the Kadiaks on the Behring Straits, the Kadiaks near Alaska, and the Tinneh in the interior of British North America; Letourneau compiled reports of it among the Chippewa Indians, the Cucus in Chile, the Caribs, the Karens in Burma; to say nothing of the stories told by the old Greeks and Romans about the Parthians, Persians, Scythians, Huns, and so on. '''Before incest was invented – for incest is an invention, and a very valuable one, too – sexual intercourse between parents and children did not arouse any more repulsion than sexual intercourse between other persons of different generations, and that occurs today even in the most philistine countries without exciting any great horror'''; even “old maids” of over sixty, if they are rich enough, sometimes marry young men in their thirties.'' [...]

''In a letter written in the spring of 1882, Marx expresses himself in the strongest terms about the complete misrepresentation of primitive times ''[...]'' '''Marx replies: "In primitive times the sister was the wife, and that was moral."'''''

'''Frederick Engels'''. ''Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State'' (1884).<ref>[https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/ch02.htm Engles, 1884]. (External link).</ref>
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==Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)==
<blockquote>''But perhaps the most important illustration of the link between struggle and sexuality is the Russian Revolution of 1917, in which the working class exploded the limits of capitalism. In the brief period in which the revolution flourished, the revolutionaries abolished all laws against homosexuality, introduced divorce by request, abortion on demand and repealed the age of consent laws.''<ref>"[http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/gayleft/socalt.rtf Sexual Liberation and Socialism]," ''Socialist Alternative'' (Red Guide), issue 16, April 1997.</ref></blockquote>

[[File:1950sUSSR.jpg|thumb|1950s USSR poster reading: "If you want to be healthy, harden yourself!"]]__NOTOC__
The 1920s were a period of relative sexual openness for the USSR. Erotic "experimentation" was reportedly common during meetings of the ''Young Pioneer'' youth organization. Parents "complained that their 10–12 year old children came home at 3–4 am, declaring that they were at the Pioneer meetings and cut off parental protests with threats and accusations of counter-revolution."

The change in politics in the country by the 1930s roughly coincided with the start of a moral panic over "unhealthy relations" between children. It was claimed that "the abnormal sexual relations between children" had "taken on menacing proportions" and required "extreme measures." Sexual indulgence was thought to distract children from more productive activities. The state began to enforce a strict taboo against sexualities that did not conform to the Victorian model. The uniforms of one summer camp were criticized on the grounds that "pants are not entirely hygienic for girls, because they cause in them excessive friction in the sexual organs." Prohibitions on homosexuality were enforced, albeit predominantly "against those instances when juveniles and minors are the objects of homosexual interest," who may have been MAPs.<ref>[https://www.stalinsociety.com/news/homosexualityintheussr Homosexuality in the USSR]</ref>

The problem of youth sexuality was eventually deemed severe enough for the state to segregate male and female schooling. [[Ann Livschiz]] writes that this action reflected the "fundamental social conservatism of the majority of the top political leadership of the country and their great fear of youth, and particularly female, sexuality, as a force that could not be overcome, controlled or fully harnessed for the service of the state."<ref>Livschiz, Ann (2008). "Battling "Unhealthy Relations": Soviet Youth Sexuality as a Political Problem," ''Journal of Historical Sociology'', 21(4), 397-416.</ref>

In the 1960s, young people sought romantic and sexual autonomy against the background of shifting attitudes toward sexuality, marriage, and reproduction. In the early 60s, a new wave of publications celebrated high-school romance as a way to constrain adolescent sexuality, and as a path to a stable Soviet family. Emphasizing the need to teach teenagers about the dangers of premarital sex, the experts argued that first love was wholesome because it was based on idealization of the object of affection. This idea, however, met with resistance from many parents of teenage girls. Fixation on teen girls’ chastity cut across class lines, with middle-class parents relying on the morality discourse to make sense of their children's lives, while working-class families reproduced peasant norms of girls’ “honor,” synonymous with virginity and determined by the community.

Based on the analysis of teenage letters, diaries, and sociological studies along with publications on adolescent love and friendship in the Soviet press, historian Alissa Klots has argued that the state-sanctioned discourse empowered teenagers to challenge the rules established by their parents and the broader community and claim romantic and sexual autonomy. At the same time, Klots argued, the official discourse reinforced highly gendered views of the relationship between the sexes - and thus set strict parameters for what was appropriate - parameters internalized by many teenagers. Official discourse legitimized conservative concepts such as “maiden honor,” condemning premarital sex and placing the burden of chastity on women. According to her research, the price paid by teen girls if premarital sex led to pregnancy reinforced the prejudice that it was their responsibility to keep first love “pure.”<ref>The preceding paragraph has been freely adapted from a 2026 research article by Alissa Klots. See Klots, Alissa. [https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sex.00035 "A Heart-to-Heart Conversation: Debating the Limits of Adolescent Friendship, Love, and Courtship in 1960s Russia."] ''Journal of the History of Sexuality'', vol. 34 no. 3, 2025, p. 446-476.</ref>

==Age-disparate sex: Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong==

While exiled in Siberia, [[Josef Stalin]] is known to have had an affair with a 13-year-old female named Lidia, at the age of 36. In the biography ''Young Stalin'' (2007),<ref>Sebag-Montefiore, Simon (2007). ''[https://library.lol/main/22A2BAB1FDD0555538BBC0BE86FDC0E6 Young Stalin]''. Alfred A. Knopf. See also [https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/n0635-siberian-pensioner-is-grandson-of-josef-stalin-dna-test-reveals/ genetic proof.]</ref><ref>[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-454291/Stalin-lover-aged-13.html Stalin and his lover aged 13]</ref> Simon Sebag Montefiore wrote:

<blockquote>''We know no details of how this developed. But some time in early 1914 Stalin, now thirty-four, embarked on an affair with Lidia, aged thirteen.''

''We catch a glimpse of Stalin and Lidia together staggering from drinking-bout to drinking-bout because we have her memoirs of their boozy carousals: “In his spare time, Stalin liked to go to evening dances — he could be very jolly too. He loved to sing and dance. He especially liked the song ‘I’m guarding the gold, the gold . . . I’m burying the gold, burying the gold, Guess where, pure damsel with your golden hair’. . . He often joined birthday dinners.” The memoirs of Stalin’s thirteen-year-old mistress were recorded twenty years later ''[...]'' while she remained a Siberian housewife.''

[...]

''“He often liked to drop in on some people,” says Lidia, meaning herself. “And he also drank.” Was this how he seduced her — or she him? Girls in places like Kureika matured early — and Lidia does not sound like a shrinking violet.''

[...]

''Even though local lore discouraged affairs with exiles, the local girls were bound to be attracted to these worldly, educated revolutionaries in their midst. This statutory rape was not rape by force but an old-fashioned seduction.''</blockquote>

Monifore notes the [[age of consent]] among other important contextual factors:

<blockquote>''Fourteen was technically the age of consent in the Russian and European regions of the Tsarist Empire, but this was Siberia. Besides, there was no precise legal concept of statutory rape in Tsarist law: for the police, it was as much a crime “against female honour” as a violation of her father’s chattels. The seducer’s agreement to marry and then the exchange of marriage vows were seen as rectifying an untoward situation.''</blockquote>

The Chinese revolutionary and statesmen [[Mao Zedong]] wrote romantic poetry in youth and lived an active sex life which included many young female sexual partners. There are only 2 claims of sexual activity involving people under 18. The first comes from anti-communist writer Jonathan Mirsky, who in 1997 claimed to have interviewed a 57-years-old woman ("Mrs. Chen") in Hong Kong, who said she began having sex with Mao in 1962 when she was 14 and he 69/70.<ref>Mirsky. ''[https://archive.fo/TkNb5#selection-1049.0-1053.55 Me and Mao’s girl: An encounter with one of the Chairman’s underage lovers]'' (''The Spectator'', 2011).</ref> Chen appears to view the experience positively, with Mirsky noting that "She had plenty to say about the Great Helmsman’s virility and stamina", and how Mao cried after she was sent to work in the North of the country against his wishes:

<blockquote>''After five years, Jiang Qing insisted that Ms Chen be banished to the north-east, to a lesser job. Mao, she claimed, took her on his knee and wept, but said he could do nothing. After some years in exile, she was summoned back to Beijing for a brief stopover where Mao, again weeping, said he could do nothing for her and was sending her back to Nanking where her marriage had been arranged. (Ibid).''</blockquote>

It should be noted that Mirsky may be an unreliable source. His language is moralistic and derogatory ("monster"), and he consistently relies on and has even reviewed<ref>Mirsky. [https://archive.fo/WCpQ7 Unmasking the Monster]. Review of Mao's Private Life (1994)</ref> the source for the second claim about minors, Dr. Li Zhisui's ''The Private Life of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs of Mao’s Personal Physician'' (1994).<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Private_Life_of_Chairman_Mao Wiki page for Dr. Li's book.]</ref> Dr. Li's book claims that Mao loved to reminisce about an encounter he had as a teenage villager with a "pretty" 12-year-old female. While this concerns attraction instead of action, Dr. Li's book is the major source for evidence of Mao's sexual prowess, and includes events which are framed negatively such as Mao's alleged contracting and spreading venereal disease through sex. Dr. Li's claims have been critiqued by professional Chinese historian Mobo Gao in a dedicated chapter titled ''How a medical doctor doctors history: a case study of Li Zhisui'', in his 2008 book ''The Battle for China's Past''.<ref>''[https://library.lol/main/F3B2B6834C81EF8F7315CB42A5FB7A29 The Battle for China's Past]''</ref> There are many other professional critiques of commonly accepted anti-Stalin and anti-Mao claims.<ref>For Stalin and his time as statesmen, see the work of J. Arch Getty, Mark Tauger, Stephen Wheatcroft. See the work of Samantha Lomb, e.g. [https://library.lol/main/2AF37FFBA76E612B049D39AF88CB1969 Stalin’s Constitution: Soviet Participatory Politics] (Routledge, 2017). Much of these researcher's conclusions are highlighted in historian [https://library.lol/main/48F580E2E2B9D7E1BACAC9405F8420CB Grover Furr's writings], such as [https://library.lol/main/4F13589002A3DFA4B0139B332FEF54AD Blood Lies: The Evidence that Every Accusation against Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union in Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands Is False] (2014), and [https://library.lol/main/0FA2BE18E21402199E0A70CA6ADB223E Stalin. Waiting For ... The Truth! Exposing the Falsehoods in Stephen Kotkin's 'Stalin. Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941'] (2019). Roland Boer addresses Stalin's religious views, e.g. [https://library.lol/main/9AA9DF3F5C6A98251A0790001E52A0EA Stalin: From Theology to the Philosophy of Socialism in Power] (2017). A historically informed tract can be found in Domenico Losurdo, [https://library.lol/main/978159484621AC3A9C94C444A835A0D7 Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend] (2019).

For Mao, see Gao's later work such as his 2018 book [https://library.lol/main/F49C94C43F77A037E7E6785F7E1358A4 Constructing China: Clashing Views of the People's Republic]; Dongping Han, [https://library.lol/main/603AB84882D24FBE3B35C4FE83258619 The Unknown Cultural Revolution] (2000); Gregor Benton, Lin Chun (eds.), [https://library.lol/main/C62B578D7855A04612F41AB35811CDE5 Was Mao Really a Monster?: The academic response to Chang and Halliday's Mao: The Unknown Story] (2009); Lee Feigon, [https://library.lol/main/C7EB9DC36EC9A3164DE0C9DA115B2A78 Mao: A Reinterpretation] (2003); Daniel F. Vukovich, [https://library.lol/main/C19E4C1F55AA068CDBD882B904B8FC2A China and Orientalism: Western Knowledge Production and the PRC] (Routledge, 2013). A general book addressing both Stalin and Mao's governments is economist Austin Murphy's [https://library.lol/main/1463915729B5AE8F30FAC63DE6D2D87E The Triumph of Evil: the Reality of the USA’s Cold War Victory] (2000, European Academic Press).</ref>

==Evo Morales==

Born 26 October 1959, the 65th president of Bolivia from 2006 to 2019, [[wikipedia:Evo_Morales|'''Evo Morales''']], [[wikipedia:Evo_Morales#Statutory_rape_investigation|faced 2 accusations]] of [[statutory rape]] (unlawful consensual sex) in 2020. Leading the Movement for Socialism (MAS) party since 1998, he is widely regarded as a left-wing / socialist president, has been described as "the most famous Bolivian ever", and is considered the country's first president to come from its indigenous population. His government was considered part of the [[wikipedia:Pink_tide|pink tide]]. Summarized with information from Wikipedia:

<blockquote>''On 7 August 2020, several photographs of Morales with a supposed underage female came to light, and began circulating on social media. Journalist Alejandro Entreambasaguas and Bolivian authorities said that her and Morales had been in a relationship since she was 14 years old. Several news organizations related these claims with comments that Morales had made twice previously on retiring with a ''quinceañera'' (15-year-old) when he was no longer president.''</blockquote>

<blockquote>''The woman was later identified as 19-year-old '''Noemí Meneses''' when a statement to police was leaked. In the statement, she said she had been in a romantic relationship with Morales since May 2020, and had no previous relations with him. The Bolivian police subsequently placed her under house arrest from which she escaped and fled to Argentina with her parents. After arriving in Argentina, Meneses wrote a letter to the Bolivian Ombudsman saying that the police had kept her from eating for two days and threatened to prosecute her for sedition and terrorism unless she said that she had been in a relationship with Morales. She wrote that the police had "forced [her] to testify under pressure, without a lawyer".<ref>Wikipedia claims that "The circumstances of her arrest are further disputed". See in-text links for sources.</ref> Alleged evidence to corroborate a long-term romantic relationship between Morales and Meneses was obtained and subsequently published by Bolivian and Spanish press, including excerpts from 101 pages of text conversations and phone records between the two, 90 photos of the pair in various locations (including the presidential palace, the presidential jet and in Buenos Aires) and travel receipts. Meneses said she met Evo Morales when she was 16 during the 2015 carnival season, while declaration data indicates that she was born in 2001, meaning that she may-in-fact have been 14 when they met.''</blockquote>

<blockquote>''On 21 August 2020, an unrelated complaint of a second statutory rape case was filed against Morales. In this complaint, it is claimed that Morales had a child with a 15-year-old and that he is named as the father on the birth certificate. In response, Morales claimed that the complaint was part of a "dirty war" by the interim government against him.''</blockquote>

==Anti-capitalist supporters==

*An immediate demand of the [[Communist Party of Great Britain]] was until the early 2020s: "The abolition of age-of-consent laws. We recognise the right of individuals to enter into the sexual relations they choose provided this does not conflict with the rights of others. Alternative legislation to protect children from sexual abuse."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20201018151051/https://communistparty.co.uk/3-immediate-demands/ 2020 archived UKCP Positions/Demands]</ref> They have since removed this demand and do not have a set-in-stone policy on the [[Age of Consent]].

*[[The Spartacist League]]:

<blockquote>''Marxists oppose all laws against “crimes without victims,” such as prostitution, drug use or pornography. We utterly reject the practice whereby looking at pornography is equated with violent crimes such as rape, sexual assault and even murder. We also oppose the criminalization of those who look at child pornography which, like all pornography, is simply words and images designed for pleasure. ''[...]'' In line with this, we do not think intergenerational sex is by definition abusive, nor do we think incest is a priori a crime to be punished by the bourgeois state. ''[...]'' We oppose age of consent laws because we oppose state intervention into people’s private sexual activities. We do not accord the capitalist state the right to decree the age at which youth may engage in consensual sexual activity. To create genuinely free and equal relations between people in all spheres, including sex, requires nothing less than the destruction of this class system and the creation of a communist world. In a classless society, social and economic constraints over sexual relations will be non-existent, and in the words of Friedrich Engels, 'there is no other motive left except mutual inclination.'''<ref>[http://www.spartacist.org/english/wv/876/canadasex.html Spartacist League: Canada: Anti-Sex Crusade Targets Youth, Gays]</ref></blockquote>

In 1994, the Spartacist League supported MAP ally psychologist and gay liberation activist [[John P. De Cecco]] when local newspaper scandal led to protest against him at his university. In his defense, the League's San Francisco University youth chapter, the Spartacus Youth Club (SYC), organized a speakout protest/rally at the university.

Other statements from a German branch include:

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''"Pedophilia" simply means sexual desire for children. Equating this with the murder and rape of children is grotesque and part of the same reactionary bourgeois bigotry that declares any sex outside of heterosexual monogamy to be "abnormal." We oppose the persecution of all those who have consensual sex with members of another generation, we reject the reactionary "underage" laws, and we have long been known to defend organizations such as the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) and the British Paedophile Information Exchange, whose leaders were arrested in 1984 for advocating for the right of "underage" youth to have sex with adults.''<ref>[https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/icl-spartacists/periodicals/spartakist/142_2000-2001_Winter_Spartakist.pdf Marxists.org - Translation]</ref>
</Blockquote>

<Blockquote>''But unlike the countless pastors and rap stars who say that Michael would never commit such a "heinous crime" as having sex with 12-year-old boys, we defend him against state persecution precisely because we fight for the right of people to have consensual sex with whomever they choose. The only guideline that should exist in sexual relationships is the rule of actual mutual consent, regardless of age, gender, or race. Defending Michael Jackson is also a defense of everyone's privacy and sexual freedom.''

[...]

''The capitalist state wants to prohibit all sex for young people in order to prepare them for a life of unfulfilled desires and wishes by promoting abstinence, guilt, and fear of sexual desire. These laws have nothing to do with protecting children; their entire purpose is to reinforce puritan values that religion promotes and to provide a moral justification for government interference in all other aspects of life. As Marxists, we oppose all laws that criminalize consensual sex for young people, whether with or without an adult partner. Down with all reactionary laws about "minors"!''<ref>[https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/icl-spartacists/periodicals/spartakist/154_2004_Spring_Spartakist.pdf Marxists.org (2)]</ref></blockquote>

<Blockquote>''Reactionary campaigns and laws against "pedophiles" deliberately fail to distinguish between real crimes—such as the brutal kidnapping, rape, and murder of young girls, as in the case of Mare Dutroux, who was recently convicted in Belgium—and voluntary sexual relations, including with adolescents. Such laws are not designed to protect children, but rather to establish and glorify the repressive institution of the family, which is the essential source of the particular oppression of women and children under capitalism.''<ref>[https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/icl-spartacists/periodicals/spartakist/155_2004_Summer_Spartakist.pdf Marxists.org (3)]</ref></blockquote>

<Blockquote>
''For the bourgeoisie and its political police in the labor movement, social democracy, it is of course of fundamental importance that workers (and the rest of the population) are regulated by hypocritical bourgeois morality, the church, "ethics" classes in schools, and the family. The family—the central institution of class society for oppressing women and youth—serves to transmit this morality and regulation to the next generation of workers. Therefore, any form of sex that questions the monogamous "norm" is branded as "deviant" and "sinful"—whether homosexuality, pedophilia, or whatever.''

''And, of course, it is the highest commandment of all social democrats that the capitalist state, as the guardian of the "common good," act as the enforcer of this hypocritical morality. The same state, guardian of private ownership of the means of production and the reactionary family, is the source of all reactionary persecution of gays, lesbians, and minorities in general.''<ref>[https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/icl-spartacists/periodicals/spartakist/158_2005_Spring_Spartakist.pdf Marxists.org (4)]</ref>
</Blockquote>

*The US Revolutionary Socialist League (disbanded):

<blockquote>''We believe that all consensual sex is the business only of those involved. The state has no business regulating in any way expressions of sexuality between consenting persons of any number, sex, or age. The state's attempt to regulate youth sexuality in particular is rooted in young people's position as property of their parents and/or wards of the state. Young people are jailed in schools, economically exploited, and denied the most basic political rights. Society maintains this oppression by imposing the idea that young people are not capable of determing their own wants and needs, in particular their sexual needs and desires. We oppose age of consent laws. These laws deny the ability of young people to determine their own sexual needs and desires. They maintain the status of youth as property, and reinforce the closet for gay youth.<ref>[http://books.google.ca/books?id=0b5xmYpoZE4C Gay Men and the Sexual History of the Political Left - G Books]</ref></blockquote>

*Sandra Bloodworth:

<blockquote>''Ultimately children will not gain genuine liberation until capitalism has been destroyed root and branch and a new society is built in which all human sexuality is encouraged and nurtured instead of despised and repressed.''<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080726073919/http://www.sa.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=565&Itemid=106 Socialist Alternative: Children and Sex]</ref></blockquote>

*[[The Oneida Community]] - Christian socialist self-governing community which institutionalized woman/boy and man/girl sexual contact.
*[[Harry Hay]] and [[Jim Kepner]], pro-pederast founders of the [[Historical examples of LGBT-MAP unity|modern gay movement]].
*[[David Thorstad]], president of the Gay Activists Alliance and a founder of [[NAMBLA]].
*Marxist/anarchist women profiled on our [[feminism]] page: Shulamith Firestone, Germaine Greer, Simone de Beauvoir.
*[[Roger Moody]], [[Michel Foucault]], [[Guy Hocquenghem]], [[Mario Mieli]], [[Peter Tatchell]] and various others associated with the early gay and [[MAP Movement]]s.
*Anarchist figures - German MAP figure [[Peter Schult]]; anarchist theorists/figures [[Hakim Bey]]/Peter Lamborn Wilson, [[John Henry Mackay]], [[Wolfi Landstreicher]], [[Sebastien Faure]], [[Tom Reeves]]. Renown Anarchist [[Noam Chomsky]], who was scandalized in 2023 media for his ever having been willing to associate with [[Jeffrey Epstein]] and [[Woody Allen]]: associations which he defends.
*Philosopher [[Slavoj Žižek]] - various relevant statements.
*[https://www.reddit.com/r/CapitalismVSocialism/comments/owqdft/bourgeois_vs_proletarian_sexuality/ Reddit thread] which cites [[Michel Foucault]], sees age-gap sex as proletarian (i.e. working class).
*"''Paedophilia and Public Morals''" (1980), a booklet produced by [[The Campaign Against Public Morals]] (CAPM), a group of Left-wing activists who formed an organization in defence of [[Thomas O'Carroll]] (himself a self-identified democratic socialist and equal opportunities feminist) and his [[PIE]] co-defendants in the wake of an upcoming 1981 trial for "Conspiracy to corrupt public morals". The booklet offers [[Accounts_and_Testimonies|testimonies]] of positive age-gap sexual contact, whilst offering philosophical treatise which scrutinize patriarchal, state and family oppression of young people.
*Many authors in [[The_Betrayal_of_Youth_(Book)|''The Betrayal of Youth: Radical Perspectives on Childhood Sexuality, Intergenerational Sex, and the Social Oppression of Children and Young People'']], Edited by Warren Middleton (CL Publications: London), were left-wing activists. E.g. John Lindsay, 'Socialism, Class, and Children's Rights', pp.134-141.<ref>[https://library.lol/main/D3E65600BCD53F898EE99AEBF6BCBC24 ''The Betrayal of Youth: Radical Perspectives on Childhood Sexuality, Intergenerational Sex, and the Social Oppression of Children and Young People'', ed. by Warren Middleton (London: CL Publications, 1986)]. Libgen link.</ref>
*In 1978, the first chairperson of the London-based [[Paedophile Information Exchange]] Keith Hose, was interviewed in the ''Leveller'', a radical left journal. Asked to explain the links between socialism and pedophilia, he argued that "In Britain
before capitalism one gets the impression that things were more free for pedophiles," and that pedophilia is only condemned because it "threatens some of the basic institutions of capitalism, such as the nuclear family."<ref>Interview with Keith Hose, ''Leveller'', February 1978.</ref>
*"[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1pXPR_PtKQ Pedophilia is proletarian]" (2021) video on youtube, by Benjamin Ingram. Other videos include "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=653CW9MYGf0 The Pedophilic Lebensraum Of Autonomous Zones]" (referring to [[Hakim Bey]]).
*YouTube streamer [[Vaush]] has made various comments and arguments about [[pedophilia]], [[Child Pornography]], and [[Accounts_and_Testimonies|mutually willing adult-child sex]], during his streaming career.
*[https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/Viki1999 Viki1999], a transgender Austrian leftist YouTube channel who joined the platform on June 1, 2019, announced on May 29, 2023, that she was [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wdj5kV-p4Q quitting YouTube] after being accused of being a pedophile. Viki was accused because of posts she had made to her Discord server indicating she found a 15-year-old attractive, and that, compared to Florida's age of consent at 18, "in austria it's 14 ;)". Viki stated that these were jokes in context, and that accusations of pedophilia led her to feel suicidal. Her accusers have since apologized, and she plans to continue her career as a sex worker with far higher earnings than YouTube.

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== Summary ==
The "Five Heads" of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao. This time, with a 6th person included: [[Tom O'Carroll]]. O'Carroll is the 2nd and most well-known Chairperson of PIE, the Paedophile Information Exchange, a defunct activist, peer-support and lobbying group that existed in Britain until approximately 1984. O'Carroll has published "Paedophilia: The Radical Case" (1980), and numerous scholarly articles in academic journals. Like many in PIE during the 1970s, O'Carroll was left-leaning and identifies as a democratic socialist and equal opportunities feminist.

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