David Norris latest scandal re child molestation.

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David Norris told our conference: 'As a child, my great desire was to be molested'
By Warren Swords
Last updated at 1:17 PM on 13th August 2011

Senator David Norris claimed in public that his greatest childhood desire was to be sexually molested, according to minutes of a gay rights meeting he addressed in the Seventies.

The minutes, which are stored in the National Library, say that Mr Norris made the claim in front of some 200 delegates at the conference of the Union for Sexual Freedom in Ireland.

Mr Norris, who wasn’t a senator at the time, also suggested that because he had not in fact been molested, it showed that there were very few paedophiles in Ireland.

The typewritten minutes show that Mr Norris was one of the speakers at the Union’s first conference, held on May 10, 1975, as a representative of the Irish Gay Rights Movement.
Senator David Norris, former Independent candidate for the Irish presidency

Senator David Norris, former Independent candidate for the Irish presidency

They state: ‘David said as a child it had been his greatest desire to be molested so he, more than most people, knows the rarity of the homosexual child molester.’

Mr Norris was not available to comment on the minutes because he had flown to Cyprus following his withdrawal this week from the presidential race.

However his recorded comments, which do not appear ever to have been challenged, will renew questions about his views on the age of consent and the acceptability of sexual relations between young people and adults.

Their publication follows the controversy over Mr Norris’s support for former partner Ezra Nawi, who was convicted of the statutory rape of a boy of 15 in 1992.

While Mr Norris has stated that he does not believe in an age of consent, he has since also denied that this could be construed as supporting paedophilia.

However, his 1975 speech appears to chime with the comments to Magill magazine in 2002, in which he was reported to have said there was ‘something to be said for classic paedophilia’.

He has since claimed he used the word ‘pederasty’ rather than ‘paedophilia’.

He said: ‘I cannot understand how anybody could find children in the slightest bit attractive sexually…but in terms of classic paedophilia, as practised by the Greeks, for example, where it is an older man introducing a younger man to adult life, there can be
something said for it. This is not something that appeals to me.

‘Although, when I was younger, I would have greatly relished the prospect of an older, attractive, mature man taking me under his wing, lovingly introducing me to sexual realities, treating me with affection, teaching me about life.’
Mr Norris' former partner Ezra Nawi

Mr Norris' former partner Ezra Nawi

Other documents in the Irish Queer Archive detail correspondence between the International Gay Association and its support for a controversial paedophile group.

The association was based at the Hirschfeld Centre, Dublin, which was founded, funded and run by Mr Norris, who claimed in the Seanad that he wrote ‘one of three
papers which led… to the foundation of the association’.

It was an umbrella group for organisations around the world, including the National Gay Federation in Ireland, with which Mr Norris was also involved. Documents show that Mr Norris attended its workshops on behalf of the National Gay Front.

A letter to the association showed that, in the early Eighties, it ‘passed two motions. One called for the abolition of the age of consent, whilst the second called for an international solidarity campaign’ on behalf of the Paedophile Information Exchange.

At the time of the letter, members of exchange were being prosecuted for ‘conspiracy to corrupt public morals’ over ads that appeared in a magazine that were alleged to have promoted indecent acts between adults and children.

One letter seeking support for the exchange, dated May 13, 1981, said: ‘PIE is an organisation set up in the ‘70s with two aims: to provide a counselling and support service for isolated paedophiles, and to campaign against the legal and social oppression of paedophilia.’

As recently as two weeks ago, former members of exchange were still being prosecuted in Britain.

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