by Thomas O’Carroll ABSTRACT Malón (Arch Sexual Behav 44(4):1071–1083, 2015) concluded that the usual arguments against sexual relationships between adults and prepubertal children are inadequate to rule out the moral permissibility of such behaviour in all circumstances. Malón (Sex Cult 21(1):247–269, 2017) applied virtue ethics in an attempt to remedy the postulated deficiency. The present […]

by Thomas O’Carroll. Sexuality & Culture (2018) 22:1230–1262. Abstract Malón (Arch Sexual Behav 44(4):1071–1083, 2015) concluded that the usual arguments against sexual relationships between adults and prepubertal children are inadequate to rule out the moral permissibility of such behaviour in all circumstances. Malón (Sex Cult 21(1):247–269, 2017) applied virtue ethics in an attempt to remedy […]

By Tom de Castella & Tom Heyden. BBC News Magazine 27 February 2014 “In this free-for-all anything and everything was open for discussion,” said Canon Angela Tilby on Radio 4’s Thought for the Day. “There were those who claimed that sexual relationships between adults and children could be harmless.” Homosexuality had only been decriminalised in […]

Daily Mirror, 20th September 1977. By SIUARY GREIG and MICHAEL MOCARTHY CHILD sex campaigners were ambushed and beaten up by hundreds of furious women last night. They were jostled, kicked, punched, scratched and spat at. And policemen who tried to protect them came under a barrage of stink bombs, rotten fruit, eggs and even a […]