9. Challenging The Social and Sexual Barriers

1. Gibbens, T. C. N. and Prince, J., Child Victims of Sex Offences, Institute for the Study of Delinquency, London, 1963. [Back]

2. See for example Bernard, F., in Cook, M. and Wilson, G., Love and Attraction, Pergamon, 1980, pp.499-501. [Back]

3. Mohr, J. W., Turner, R. E. and Terry, M. B., Pedophilia and Exhibitionism, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1964. [Back]

4. See Plummer, in Cook, M. and Wilson, G., op. cit., pp.537-540. [Back]

5. Ibid., p.S38. [Back]

6. Quoted in Willenbecher, T., ‘A letter from Boston’, Christopher Street, March, 1978, p.54. [Back]

7. Ibid., p.56. [Back]

8. Gay Left, No. 7, 1978/79, p.S. [Back]

9. Paedophile activists repies to the Gay Left articles make this point strongly. See Gay Left, No. 8,1978/79, p.13. [Back]

10. Ibid., p.13. [Back]

11. Ibid., p.17. [Back]

12. Foucault, M., History of Sexuality, translated from the French by Robert Hurley, Allen Lane, London, 1979. [Back]

13. This charter is similar to that outlined in the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child and reported in Allen, J., TheKids Catalogue, Greenhouse Publications, Melbourne, 1975, pp. 17 1—174. [Back]

If the police had good reason to believe that force, fraud or pressure was being applied by a man to a boy/youth then they could still instigate an inquiry without a complaint from someone else. But the onus would be on the police to prove that they had information warranting such an inquiry. This would reduce random and discriminatory police investigations of male-youth relationships.