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*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22459815 Age of consent should be 13, says barrister ] - Barbara Hewson told online magazine Spiked that the move was necessary in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal to end the "persecution of old men". (BBC News, UK)
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22459815 Age of consent should be 13, says barrister ] - Barbara Hewson told online magazine Spiked that the move was necessary in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal to end the "persecution of old men". (BBC News, UK)
*[http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13604/ Yewtree is destroying the rule of law]  - With its emphasis on outcomes over process, the post-Savile witch-hunting of ageing celebs echoes the Soviet Union.  (Barbara Hewson - spiked, UK)


* [http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/05/dutch-court-says-pedophilia-advocacy-group-martijn-can-continue.html Dutch Court Says Pedophilia Advocacy Group Martijn Can Continue ]  - Judges in the Netherlands have ruled that an organization that wants to legalize pedophilia can continue to exist. Cintia Taylor speaks with the group’s most recent leader. (The Daily Beast)  
* [http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/05/dutch-court-says-pedophilia-advocacy-group-martijn-can-continue.html Dutch Court Says Pedophilia Advocacy Group Martijn Can Continue ]  - Judges in the Netherlands have ruled that an organization that wants to legalize pedophilia can continue to exist. Cintia Taylor speaks with the group’s most recent leader. (The Daily Beast)  

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  • No justice system for old men - Recent prosecutions involving decades-old sexual abuse are not delivering justice, they are undermining it - for everyone. (Rosamund Cuckston - spiked, UK)
  • These child-abuse stats are PANTS - The NSPCC’s new campaign is built on the dubious claim that five per cent of people were sexually assaulted as children. (Ken McLaughlin - spiked, UK)

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  • S.African ban lifted on 'child porn' film - A South African censorship appeals tribunal on Saturday lifted a ban on a film that was barred as "child pornography" over a sex scene between a schoolteacher and a pupil. (Globalpost. Za)

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   "Alexander's Choice" is a novel set at Eton College in 1983-4 by Edmund Marlowe, an old boy of the school, as his début work. It tells of the love affair of Alexander Aylmer, a new boy at the school aged 13-14 and Damian Cavendish, a new, young English master. Sweet-natured and good-looking, thirteen-year-old aristocrat Alexander Aylmer goes to prestigious Eton College in September 1983 full of optimism. He soon discovers new friends, interesting teachers and the hopes and frustrations that arrive with puberty.

Michael Jackson’s Dangerous Liaisons is a book by the writer/novelist Tom O'Carroll under the pen name “Carl Toms” in which he comprehensively reviews the controversially intimate relationships of the late American singer Michael Jackson with young boys. Published in 2010 in the United Kingdom by Troubador Publishing Ltd and distributed by Dangerous Books, the book received pre-publication endorsements from five professors: