Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️@sappholives83
Famed LGBTQIA+ activist Peter Tatchell has spent his entire adult life trying to lower the age of consent, especially for boys. His claim is that he wishes to avoid seeing young couples criminalized for having sex. This is odd, as Mr. Tatchell has known for at least the last 6 years that the Home Office has absolutely no interest in punishing teenagers for having sex.
The total absence of any charges filed against young couples for consensual sexual activity is yet more proof that Tatchell has nothing to fear on that front — and yet he continues to press for laws that will “coincidentally” allow adult men to have sex with 14 year old boys. Tatchell has a bit of a fixation on 14 year old boys, as we shall see.
If this activism were the only red flag, I might overlook it — but Mr. Tatchell also has a long history of making comments in support of child sexual abuse. That he frames this abuse he supports as consensual does not make it less abusive.
Tatchell wrote a now-infamous letter to the Guardian (see below), in which he stated that “not all sex involving children is abusive and harmfu. In this letter, he also spoke in approving terms of a pederastic ritual that once took place among the Sambia tribe in New Guinea.
This ritual involved the physical and sexual abuse of boys as young as 7, including starvation, beatings, and forced fellatio. The Sambia themselves have abandoned the practice, recognizing the harm it caused, and the anthropologist who wrote of it was blunt about the coercive and violent nature of the ritual.
None of that deterred Mr. Tatchell from labeling this behavior as “normal, beneficial, and enjoyed by young and old alike.”
But Tatchell did not stop there. Challenged by appalled responses to his letter, he doubled down and reiterated that not all adult/child sex is abusive and harmful. Even in an attempt to whitewash his earlier letter, he was unable to say clearly than adults should never rape children.
Tatchell also contributed a chapter to a book called “Betrayal of Youth,” a collection of essays that were written almost exclusively by known pedophiles, and edited by another known pedophile, Warren Middleton.
Not content with contributing, Tatchell also penned a glowing review of Middleton’s book — a book which includes a graphic and eroticized description of a public and incestuous sex act carried out by a pair of 8 year old boys. The rest of the essays are less graphic, but more direct; they were clearly written by men who wish to convince readers that the sexual abuse of children is beneficial to its victims.
Tatchell would later claim not to have read the book at all, or to have known what it was about, in spite of contributing to it.
Finally, Tatchell’s own website hosts an extremely disturbing account of an interaction he claims to have had with a 14 year old boy.
In this account, “Lee” is 14, and has been sexually abused since he was 12 — although Tatchell frames it as consensual sex with “older guys.” Throughout the essay, Tatchell goes to great lengths to describe Lee as mature, almost an adult, and Lee’s abusers as his “boyfriends.”
These are the words which Tatchell has put in the mouth of this 14 year old victim:
“I like men in their 20s and early 30s. They are more experienced and serious. With them, you can get into a close relationship than with a teenager.”
For most pedophiles, the greatest fantasy is that of the willing child. These men imagine having loving, adult relationships with their young victims — but in real life, there is nothing romantic or loving when an adult is abusing a child.
If Lee was real (and I hope he was not) then he desperately needed the intervention of a responsible adult.
He got Tatchell.
This child told Peter Tatchell that he’d been victimized at age 12, and is continuing to be victimized today. Tatchell’s response? To go out and spend his life trying to make it easier for all of the men who want to abuse the boy.