Roger Moody
Roger Moody (Born circa. 1940 - Died June, 2022) was a British MAP author, political theorist and activist for various left-wing causes. These causes included labor/worker's rights, the rights of indigenous peoples and mining communities, an opposition to war, and the right of mutually willing sexual expression for sexual minorities - including MAPs and young people. Moody was an "out"/open pedophile during the 1970s, before this previously obscure psychiatric term became widely known in Britain and heavily demonized/stigmatized in the 1980s (Basannavar, 2019).[1] Moody created and published through Peace News, publishing a short book - "Indecent Assault" (1980) - which addressed a legal trial in which Moody was acquitted over charges of the sexual touching of two minor males (known legally as "sexual assault"). He also published articles on MAP issues such as "How to Make Paedophilia Acceptable" (1984) and "Man/Boy Love and the Left" (1981), outlined below.
A 2022 obituary explains Moody's non-MAP focused activism.[2] According to the obituary, Moody "was born in Bristol in the 1940s [...] active in the peace movement and, along with his friend Jan Roberts, set up CIMRA (Colonialism and Indigenous Minorities Research and Action) to stimulate support for indigenous land rights struggles across the world." Moody was "centrally involved" in the "Mines and Communities network," established in 2001 to share information on mining with land-based communities, and with Moody's focus being on Asia-Pacific mining. "In 2019," the author reports, "Mines and Communities was awarded the UK-based Gandhi Foundation's prestigious Peace Prize, largely because of Roger's work on mining in India."
"For many years, Roger cared for his older brother Peter, who had Down's Syndrome. [...and] died in 1998 [...] Roger and Peter wrote a book about their life together, called Half Left. (Peter would usually reply to the question, "Are you all right Pete?" with the quip, "No, I'm half left.") Roger actively promoted the rights and welfare of people with Down's Syndrome, and much of his passion for solidarity with those who are different from expected social norms sprang from his love and respect for his older brother. [...] Roger wrote many, many articles and books. Among his major books on mining are Plunder! (a history of RTZ to 1991), The Gulliver File (an encyclopedic history of world mining companies to1992), Into the Unknown Regions (about submarine tailings disposal), The Risks We Run (about mining political risk insurance), and Rocks and Hard Places: The Globalization of Mining.
Roger accumulated a number of aliases during his writing career, notably Digby Knight and Mogador. Friends in India loved to call him Rajah Moody. Over the last two decades, he usually wrote under the banner of Nostromo Research, named for the character in Joseph Conrad's novel of the same name."
Writings on pedophilia and youth sexuality
Death
Moody died peacefully in his home in late May or early July, 2022.