Janice Turner on safeguarding manages to name everyone succinctly in one column

Excellent article. It is very worrying that so many prominent people, be they politicians or celebrities are afraid to say exactly what Janice has just written so well. Everything she has written is fact, yet if you speak out you are cancelled for wrongspeak. I hope that articles like this will help open peoples eyes to this disturbing and dangerous trend.

It was not just in Britain that pro paedophile campaigners were active. This petition in France called for abolition of the age of consent

" A number of French intellectuals – including such prominent names as Louis Aragon, Michel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Derrida, Louis Althusser, Roland Barthes, Simone de Beauvoir, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Michel Leiris, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Philippe Sollers, Jacques Rancière, Jean-François Lyotard, Francis Ponge, Bernard Besret and various prominent doctors and psychologists – signed the petition"

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_petition_against_age_of_consent_laws

Fantastic article. Thank you Janice.

Janice is fantastic. I took out a subscription to the Times just to read her columns a few months ago (started to feel guilty about using others’ share tokens so often!)

That is such a brilliant article. And how can you refute each point, it's just fact there for everyone to see.

Great article which pulls no punches and highlights the MAP agenda.

Child sexual abuse is overwhelmingly committed, both online and in real life, by heterosexual men. Thanks to feminist campaigners, sex with an under-age girl, once shrugged off as a giggle, is seen unequivocally as criminal, while the Jimmy Savile scandals underlined the imperative of safeguarding. Yet on the outermost margins of the LGBT movement are voices which try to posit child-sex as the next liberation struggle. In the 1970s the Paedophile Information Exchange tried to latch on to the mainstream gay movement; in 1997 Dares to Speak condemned anti-child-sex views as “hysteria”. Now on Twitter are hundreds of accounts by MAPs — Minority Attracted Persons — who reveal their AOA (Age of Attraction) as, say, 3-14 years and campaign for “MAP pride”: ie to be incorporated into the LGBT rainbow

Excellent article.

Much needed

Does she usually write for The Times?

Yes, causing a moral dilemma for all who don’t wish to support the scummy Murdoch press! What can we do? The Guardian has turned against women, it’s all about identity politics now. The Morning Star is the only leftwing paper I can buy that hasn’t been captured. So most of the rational journalists are published in the rightwing press.

As Alison Bailey pointed out, what sort of age group is 12 to 23? Seems absurdly inappropriate. I was glancing through a local listings freebie last year and noticed two ads, one for a young Gay men's social group another for a queer youth project, the former was 18+ the later 13+.

Excellent as always.

The normalisation of child abuse is unacceptable, and for a society that had made significant strides towards protecting children, it is incredibly regressive and almost unbelievable.

I agree. It seems to be part of a surge of male supremacism in recent years, crushing women’s and children’s rights. Violent and demanding. Very disturbing.

I'll buy the Times today.

A very powerful article.

Superb writing as always, thanks Janice — always worth reading. And thanks for the share token, NotBad.

Thankyou for posting this- it is great!

She is a writer worth watching.

Does she usually write for The Times?

That is a fantastic article that neatly summarises the issues. Also the clearest comment on that film I have read. The normalisation of child abuse is unacceptable, and for a society that had made significant strides towards protecting children, it is incredibly regressive and almost unbelievable. I really hope that more people start making child protection a priority, for example, librarians should be refusing to host drag queens story time, teachers need to loudly complain about the proud trust resources and so on. Everyone needs to raise their voice on this in whatever way they can.

That wasn't meant to be a lecture, sorry. I know I am preaching to the converted. I just feel so horrified by the way we as a society are colluding with child abusers.

Incredible. Now to watch the Twittersphere and see those people and organisations try to discredit what she says. Supporters of Stonewall seriously can't read that and not have a fucking lightbulb moment!

Brilliantly written

Blistering. I love Janice

That is very good

Janice is amazing. This is a great article, even covering Tatchell ( although where has he ever distanced himself from his words on child abuse? )

Wow - message loud and clear!

I’ll buy the Sat Times this weekend, just for this.

Wow. I loved it. So succinct.

Excellent article