Ipce

Ipce is an international, non-campaigning group that publishes suppressed scholarly literature on sexual relationships between adults and minors and related topics on its website. The group also maintains a private forum for the discussion of this literature and ways forward for those advancing it.

The organization was created as a preparation by the adult-minor groups to the international gay and lesbian organization ILGA, but after they were thrown out of this organization, Ipce kept on, first as an organization for international pro-pedophile groups, but nowadays as an organization of private persons (although of course many of those are also active in organizations like NAMBLA and Martijn).

Meeting

The group meets once a year to discuss internal and wider issues. Ipce meetings are a good opportunity for interested persons to acquaint themselves with one another.

Previous Meetings

Structure

Ipce has a membership who are encouraged to make donations to keep the organization afloat. The current secretary of Ipce is Frans Gieles, who presides over an anonymous committee.

Publications

Ipce currently publishes a newsletter and a magazine, both edited by Gieles. Before the electronic Newsletter, Ipce published a paper newsletter, which documented information about group meetings they had in the pre-digital period.

Controversy

A former member (Tom O'Carroll) has faced some legal troubles (unrelated to Ipce per se). This happened after a police officer who was investigating him infiltrated:

"This is born out of our experience in Hamburg in 2004, where we had a UK police officer as an infiltrator - who, incidentally, did not find any illegality."[1]

Also, in 2004, the former Glasgow University academic, Dr Ricard Yuill was attacked and libeled by right-wing journalists for attending a meeting as part of his research. This followed an undercover investigation, carried out by Ireen van Engelen, who passed information on to the Scottish Daily Mail journalist Marcello Mega.

Since these events took place, Ipce's security measures have been tightened considerably.

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