Pedophile advocacy groups

In Britain, the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE), led by Tom O'Carroll, has operated from 1974 to 1984 and openly collaborated with other political organizations such as the Albany Trust and the NCCL.

In the United States, pro-pedophile groups have often been inspired by their European counterparts, with some being transitory in nature and emerging in wake of criminal cases, and others being more long-lived.

The group was established in 1962 by seven people who had attended a conference by French jurist and pro-adult-child sex advocate René Guyon (1876–1963).

[4] Moreover, the British Pedophile Information Exchange (PIE) was established in 1974 and openly collaborated with political organizations such as the Albany Trust and the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL).

[8] In Germany, the German Study and Working Group on Pedophilia (DSAP) was highly active in the 1980s and had psychologist Helmut Kentler serving on its board in 1980.

The DSAP also shared a post office box with the Humanists Union, an organization that also had ties with advocates of adult-child sexual relations, in Düsseldorf.

[9][6] In 1977, many French intellectuals including René Scherer, his former pupil and lover Guy Hocquenghem and Gabriel Matzneff launched campaigns to lower the age of consent, which garnered the support of Michel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida and Félix Guattari.

In the 1970s, during Anita Bryant's Save Our Children campaign, most American homosexual activists started to dissociate from pro-pedophile groups in the United States, which contributed to the subsequent creation of NAMBLA.

[13][17] The Boylove Manifesto, which has been shared by multiple online pedophile groups, state that sex between men and boys is not wrong and demands that age of consent laws be reconsidered.

"[2] Aside from pre-Internet organizations such as the Rene Guyon Society and the Childhood Sensuality Circle, the use of neutralizing behaviors has also been observed in online pedophile advocacy environments.