On April 4, 1978, a conversation detailing the reasons for their pro-abolition positions to lower the age of sexual consent to 12 or 13 years of age was broadcast by radio France Culture in the program “Dialogues”. The participants, Michel Foucault, Jean Danet and Guy Hocquenghem, had all signed a 1977 petition, along with other intellectuals, demanding the legalization of pedophilia. Simone de Beauvoir (future feminist icon), alongside most of the Marxist French intelligentsia who signed the petition, also sought the immediate release of three individuals who were …
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