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• Azov Films Prosecutions Starting in 2012, some US customers of Azov Films have been arrested and charged with receipt and possession of child pornography: some of the nude visual material has been construed as illegal by US Law Enforcement Officers ("LEO's"), including agents of the United States Postal Inspection Service.

• 2013 Free Spirits fundraiser - BoyWiki is hosted by Free Spirits and is in danger of being shut down along with all Free Spirits resources due to money problems.

• BoyWiki Annual Report (december 2012) Since the English BoyWiki's reopening, the Recent Changes pages has been very active, listing new entries and updates. It documents a wide-ranging effort of sorting out, categorizing, tagging entries, updating, adapting and new creating templates.

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• No justice system for old men - Recent prosecutions involving decades-old sexual abuse are not delivering justice, they are undermining it - for everyone. (Rosamund Cuckston - spiked, UK)

• These child-abuse stats are PANTS - The NSPCC’s new campaign is built on the dubious claim that five per cent of people were sexually assaulted as children. (Ken McLaughlin - spiked, UK)

• RSOL demands removal of Vitter amendment from Farm Bill - Sen. David Vitter, R-La., has sponsored a bill that would deny food stamps to people on the sex offender registry.

• Age of consent should be 13, says barrister - Barbara Hewson told online magazine Spiked that the move was necessary in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal to end the "persecution of old men". (BBC News, UK)

• Dutch Court Says Pedophilia Advocacy Group Martijn Can Continue - Judges in the Netherlands have ruled that an organization that wants to legalize pedophilia can continue to exist. Cintia Taylor speaks with the group’s most recent leader. (The Daily Beast)

• ‘If you question the Savile crusade, you're seen as evil’ - Frank Furedi on his new book about Jimmy Savile, and why it's so hard, but so important, to challenge the moral crusade on child abuse. (spiked UK)

In Other News

• Jeremy Forrest: schoolgirl says she 'groomed' teacher who abducted her - Schoolgirl says she instigated relationship with her maths teacher and hopes to marry him when he is released from jail. (The Guardian, UK)

• Gay teenager kidnapped and tortured by Russian homophobes claimed to have died from injuries (Pink News, EU)

• Porn’s negative effect on teen sexuality exaggerated, study says - In spite of widespread warnings that pornography is warping young people’s sex lives, new research suggests parents have no need to panic: It may not be as influential on teens’ sexual behaviour as we may think. (The Globe and Mail)

• Rose City middle school torn apart by teacher sex scandal - This tiny farm town in northern Michigan has risen up against a school board member and six teachers. (The Detroit News, US)

Art and Entertainment

Help Ivan Noel finance his new film - They Returned

They Returned is a beautifully touching and unnerving story about the unexplained disappearance of three children, two boys and one girl, and their reappearance three days later in a semi-autistic state. Not even the children themselves are able to help anyone understand what happened. No clues or signs are left, other than the fact that, as we discover later, two of them were mutilated.

As the police carry out their investigation, and the town slowly sinks into a deep state of suspiciousness, small community of children - classroom colleagues of the missing three - run their own parallel search.

Only one person is a potential suspect: the children’s own classroom teacher, recently arrived from another town. He does not help his case when he attempts to make the school psychologist understand that the children were in fact murdered...

New on DVD

• North Sea Texas (2011) (IMDb) A teenage boy's search for love finds him infatuated with an older boy who lives nearby.

• The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012) (IMDb) A childless couple bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. Soon, a child is born, though Timothy Green is not all that he appears.

Literature

"Alexander's Choice" is a novel set at Eton College in 1983-4 by Edmund Marlowe, an old boy of the school, as his début work. It tells of the love affair of Alexander Aylmer, a new boy at the school aged 13-14 and Damian Cavendish, a new, young English master. Sweet-natured and good-looking, thirteen-year-old aristocrat Alexander Aylmer goes to prestigious Eton College in September 1983 full of optimism. He soon discovers new friends, interesting teachers and the hopes and frustrations that arrive with puberty.

Michael Jackson’s Dangerous Liaisons is a book by the writer/novelist Tom O'Carroll under the pen name “Carl Toms” in which he comprehensively reviews the controversially intimate relationships of the late American singer Michael Jackson with young boys. Published in 2010 in the United Kingdom by Troubador Publishing Ltd and distributed by Dangerous Books, the book received pre-publication endorsements from five professors: