Prof Ken Plummer, left, and former PIE head Tom O'Carroll: apologists for child rapists.
"Paedophilic interest is natural and normal for human males," said the presentation. "At least a sizeable minority of normal males would like to have sex with children ...
Normal males are aroused by children."
Some yellowing tract from the Seventies or early Eighties, era of abusive celebrities and the infamous PIE, the Paedophile Information Exchange? No. Anonymous commenters on some underground website? No again.
The statement that paedophilia is "natural and normal" was made not three decades ago but last July. It was made not in private but
as one of the central claims of an academic presentation delivered, at the invitation of the organisers, to many of the key experts in the field at a conference held by the University of Cambridge.
Other presentations included "Liberating the paedophile: a discursive analysis," and "Danger and difference: the stakes of hebephilia."
Hebephilia is the sexual preference for children in early puberty, typically 11 to 14-year-olds.
Another attendee, and enthusiastic participant from the floor, was one
Tom O'Carroll, a multiple child sex offender, long-time campaigner for the legalisation of sex with children and former head of the Paedophile Information Exchange. "Wonderful!" he wrote on his blog afterwards. "It was a rare few days when I could feel relatively popular!"
Last week, after the conviction of Rolf Harris, the report into Jimmy Savile and claims of an establishment cover-up to protect a sex-offending minister in Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet, Britain went into a convulsion of anxiety about child abuse in the Eighties. But unnoticed amid the furore is a much more current threat:
attempts, right now, in parts of the academic establishment to push the boundaries on the acceptability of child sex.
Comment: It wouldn't come as a big surprise if this was an Israeli "false flag" operation - it's one of their specialties and psychopaths don't care about 'their own people' anyway.
There are two possible scenarios, if this is true, LIHOP and MIHOP. "Let it happen on purpose" (LIHOP) lets events happen unfettered to exploit the situation for some political/ military gain; "Make it happen on purpose" (MIHOP) means that the events were staged from start to finish by the "injured" party. Whatever happened, it very much looks like at least LIHOP was involved.