Paedophilia:The Radical Case (book)
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Paedophilia: The Radical Case is a 1980 book about pedophilia by the dual nationality Irish/British pedophile activist and former chairperson of the now defunct Paedophile Information Exchange (P.I.E) Tom O'Carroll. The historian William Percy wrote:
- "A journalist, O’Carroll was PIE’s public face in the later 70s, when he propelled the organisation to national prominence and, in tabloid press terms, notoriety. Invited by a London publisher to write about his experiences, he delivered Paedophilia: The Radical Case, a book that was a personal account of how he came to be involved with PIE, the work of that organisation, and also a polemical exploration of the ethics of paedophilia. His second book, Michael Jackson’s Dangerous Liaisons, is a definitive 624-page review of the late King of Pop’s intimate friendships with young boys. A sympathetic account, the book appeared in 2010 to considerable acclaim within the academic world, but was trashed by outraged fans even before they could possibly have read it. They saw it as a slur on their idol’s “innocence”. [1]
In the Preface to this book, Tom O'Carroll wrote:
- "I am a paedophile, and in the chapters that follow it will become apparent why I have felt it necessary to crash through the barriers of societal disapproval by speaking out. The fact that I have been able to do so owes much to the work, described in Part Three, of the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE), a group with which I have been closely connected, which has been campaigning since its inception in 1974 for the open discussion of paedophilia, and for abolition of the laws against consensual sexual acts between children and adults." [2]
