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Comment by throwaway2037

2 years ago

> paedophile sex tourist

Did you lift that quote from here? https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199899/cmhansrd/vo99...

> Oscar Wilde was a paedophile and a sex tourist.

I Googled for: was Oscar Wilde a pedophile?

There is lots of debate. Not so straight forward.

No, not seen that. Multiple articles and I read some letters etc by Wilde, Gide and others years ago.

Some defences either ignore the key evidence - for example the first I found was this which just looks at his attraction to adult young men, and ignores his attraction to teenagers: https://www.makingqueerhistory.com/articles/2016/12/20/the-t...

The others base their case on distinguishing between a paedophile and an ephebophile. It may well be true, but the latter is still a criminal offence in most countries (albeit lesser in some countries). Combined with travel and prostitution it is still pretty horrible behaviour.