French minister in "boy sex" row
France's Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand is facing intense pressure over a book he wrote that described paying for "young boys" in Thailand.
Thursday, 08.10.2009.
15:47
France's Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand is facing intense pressure over a book he wrote that described paying for "young boys" in Thailand. The book was written four years ago, before he joined the government, but is back in the headlines following his impassioned support for Roman Polanski. French minister in "boy sex" row Polanski has been arrested in Switzerland on child sex charges. Mitterrand, nephew of former President Francois Mitterrand, has come under attack from right and left. In his 2005 book The Bad Life, he wrote: "I got into the habit of paying for boys," saying his attraction to young male prostitutes was not dimmed despite knowing "the sordid details of this traffic". "All these rituals of the market for youths, the slave market excited me enormously... the abundance of very attractive and immediately available young boys put me in a state of desire." Mitterrand, 62, has denied being a pedophile, saying the term "boys" was used loosely. The account of cruising for prostitutes in Thailand attracted little attention when it was published in 2005, when Mitterrand was a TV personality. He did not share his uncle's socialist politics, and was brought into the center-right government by President Nicolas Sarkozy in June 2009. But his strong defence of Polanski has brought the book back into the public eye. Polanski faces deportation to the United States for having had sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.
French minister in "boy sex" row
Polanski has been arrested in Switzerland on child sex charges.Mitterrand, nephew of former President Francois Mitterrand, has come under attack from right and left.
In his 2005 book The Bad Life, he wrote: "I got into the habit of paying for boys," saying his attraction to young male prostitutes was not dimmed despite knowing "the sordid details of this traffic".
"All these rituals of the market for youths, the slave market excited me enormously... the abundance of very attractive and immediately available young boys put me in a state of desire."
Mitterrand, 62, has denied being a pedophile, saying the term "boys" was used loosely.
The account of cruising for prostitutes in Thailand attracted little attention when it was published in 2005, when Mitterrand was a TV personality.
He did not share his uncle's socialist politics, and was brought into the center-right government by President Nicolas Sarkozy in June 2009.
But his strong defence of Polanski has brought the book back into the public eye. Polanski faces deportation to the United States for having had sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.
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