かつてのフランス知識人たち

 

日本の合意年齢は１３歳だから、法定強姦ではありません。他の法律で処罰されます。以上。 https://t.co/qkwkwIMwVF

— buvery (@buvery) June 27, 2021

いろいろと複雑な問題だが、前にも書いたけど、 

French petition against age of consent laws

After May 1968, French intellectuals would challenge the state’s authority to protect minors from sexual abuse. In one prominent example, on January 26, 1977, Le Monde, a French newspaper, published a petition signed by the era’s most prominent intellectuals—including Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Gilles Deleuze, Roland Barthes, Philippe Sollers, André Glucksmann and Louis Aragon—in defense of three men on trial for engaging in sexual acts with minors.

 

What the endorsements from prominent French intellectuals suggested was that young children possessed a right to govern their own sexuality. Under this interpretation of liberté, young children were empowered to find happiness in sexual relationships; their ability to consent was a foregone conclusion. Any effort to suggest otherwise would be a condescension, a disrespect to them as fully realized human beings. In a radio interview in 1978, Michel Foucault said of sex with minors that assuming “that a child is incapable of explaining what happened and was incapable of giving his consent are two abuses that are intolerable, quite unacceptable.”

日本でもてはやされているかつてのフランス知識人が児童性交を擁護していた時代があった。

さすがにもう擁護する人はいないだろう。