Tom O'Carroll

Thomas Victor O'Carroll (born 1945) is a dual nationality Irish/British writer, activist for pedophilia and pedophilia advocacy, and a convicted distributor of child pornography. O 'Carroll is a former chairperson of the now defunct Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) and was at one time a prominent member of IPCE, formerly known as International Paedophile and Child Emancipation.

In 1980 O'Carroll's book Paedophilia: The Radical Case was published, in which he advocated for the normalization of some adult-child sexual relationships. In the book, O'Carroll states his belief that each stage of the sexual relationship between an adult and child can be 'negotiated', with "hints and signals, verbal and non-verbal, by which each indicates to the other what is acceptable and what is not... the man might start by saying what pretty knickers the girl was wearing, and he would be far more likely to proceed to the next...
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