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The Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) was a British pro-paedophile activist group, founded in October 1974 and officially disbanded in 1984.〔Tom de Castella & Tom Heyden ("How did the pro-paedophile group PIE exist openly for 10 years?" ), BBC News Magazine, 27 February 2014〕 It was described by the BBC in 2007 as "an international organisation of people who trade obscene material." ==Early history and activity== PIE was set up as a special interest group within the Scottish Minorities Group by founding member Michael Hanson, who became the group's first chairman. Since the majority of enquiries were from England, in 1975 PIE relocated to London, where 23-year-old Keith Hose became chairman.〔Jamie Doward ("How paedophiles infiltrated the left and hijacked the fight for civil rights" ), ''The Observer'', 2 March 2014〕 The group's stated aim was "to alleviate () suffering of many adults and children" by campaigning to abolish the age of consent thus legalising sex between adults and children.〔Christian Wolmar ("Looking back to the great British paedophile infiltration campaign of the 1970s" ), ''The Independent'', 27 February 2014〕 Paedophile Action for Liberation had developed as a breakaway group from South London Gay Liberation Front. It was the subject of an article in the ''Sunday People'', which dedicated its front page and centre-spread to the story. The result was intimidation of, and loss of employment for, some of those who were exposed. It later merged with PIE. This exposé on PAL had an effect on PIE members' willingness for activism. In the PIE Chairperson's Annual Report for 1975-1976, Hose wrote that "The only way for PIE to survive, was to seek out as much publicity for the organization as possible.... If we got bad publicity we would not run into a corner but stand and fight. We felt that the only way to get more paedophiles joining PIE... was to seek out and try to get all kinds of publications to print our organization's name and address and to make paedophilia a real public issue." A campaign to attract media attention was not effective at that time, but Hose's attendance at the 1975 annual conference of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE) in Sheffield, where he made a speech on paedophilia, was covered at length in ''The Guardian''.〔 Peter Hain, then Honorary Vice-President of CHE, condemned PIE: "Some plain speaking is called for: paedophilia is not a condition to be given a nod and a wink as a healthy fringe activity in society – it is a wholly undesirable abnormality requiring sensitive treatment."〔Robert Booth and Helen Pidd ("Lobbying by paedophile campaign revealed" ), ''The Guardian'', 26 February 2014〕 In the same year, Hose also attended a conference organized by Mind, the national mental health organization, where it was suggested that PIE should submit evidence to the Home Office's Criminal Law Revision Committee on the age of consent. PIE submitted a 17-page document in which it proposed that there should be no age of consent, and that the criminal law should concern itself only with sexual activities to which consent is not given, or which continue after prohibition by a civil court. PIE was set up to campaign for an acceptance and understanding of paedophilia by producing controversial documents. But its formally defined aims also included giving advice and counsel to paedophiles who wanted it, and providing a means for paedophiles to contact one another. To this end it held regular meetings in London but also had a "Contact Page", which was a bulletin in which members placed advertisements, giving their membership number, general location, and brief details of their sexual and other interests. Replies were handled by PIE, as with a box number system, so that correspondents were unidentifiable until they chose to exchange their own details. Since the purpose of this contact page was to enable paedophiles to contact one another, advertisements implying that contact with children was sought and advertisements for erotica were turned down. The Contact Page ultimately resulted in a prosecution for a 'conspiracy to corrupt public morals'. PIE produced regular magazines that were distributed to members. The original ''Newsletter'' was superseded in 1976 by ''Understanding Paedophilia'', which was intended to be sold in radical bookshops and be distributed free to PIE members. It was mainly the concern of Warren Middleton, who attempted to make the magazine a serious journal that included extracts from sensitive paedophilic literature and articles from psychologists with the aim of establishing respectability for paedophilia.〔 In 1976, both PIE and PAL had been asked to help the Albany Trust, which received financial support from the government, to produce a booklet on paedophilia which was to have been published by the Trust. Mary Whitehouse referred to this collaboration in a speech, asserting that public funds were being used to subsidize paedophile groups.〔 〕 PIE itself did not receive public funding. The Albany Trustees decided in 1977 not to continue with the project.〔〔 A year later a question relating to the incident was asked in the House of Commons by Sir Bernard Braine but, despite a statement by Home Office Minister Brynmor John that there was no evidence of public money going to PIE, the issue was drawn out into 1978 in the letters pages of ''The Guardian'' and ''The Times''. When Middleton ceased active work with PIE, ''Understanding Paedophilia'' was replaced by the magazine ''MagPIE'', which was more of a compromise between the proselytising of the earlier publication and a forum for members. It contained news, book and film reviews, articles, non-nude photographs of children, humour about paedophilia, letters and other contributions by members. In 1977, PIE produced another regular publication called ''Childhood Rights''. When the editor ('David') retired, this content was assimilated into ''MagPIE''.〔 In 1978 and 1979, the Paedophile Information Exchange surveyed its members and found that they were most attracted to girls aged 8–11 and boys aged 11–15. In 1978, Glenn Wilson and David Cox approached O'Carroll with a request to study the PIE membership. A meeting was held with the PIE leadership to vet the survey instruments and, after approval, these were distributed to PIE members in the course of their regular mailing. Wilson and Cox went on to use the data in writing their book, ''The Child-Lovers – a study of paedophiles in society''.〔Wilson, G. and Cox, D. ''The Child-Lovers – a study of paedophiles in society''. London. Peter Owen (1983). ISBN 0-7206-0603-9〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paedophile Information Exchange」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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