„Without him, it would certainly not have taken me long to put my suicidal thoughts into practice. So he saved my life. How can I be a victim and he a perpetrator?!? This law is just sick.“
„There are situations where children have important non-sexual needs that they may be able to accommodate with well-structured and loving pedophiles, perhaps without taking more harm than e.g. has already been caused by neglectful family relationships.“
„Michael Jackson changed the world and, more personally, my life forever. He is the reason I dance, the reason I make music, and one of the main reasons I believe in the pure goodness of humankind.“
„I had caught him, attracted only by his good looks I had walked seemingly by chance past his house, even spoke to him at some point. Soon I tried to be his friend and be close to him.“
„This was not being fooled around with by the bellhop or cuddling with my cousin but rather a full sexual expression of real feelings. With Walter, an intelligent, thoughtful, fellow actor, I learned that sex could be connected to love.“
„Today, all such relationships are so completely demonized as to destroy souls and psyches on both sides of the purely arbitrary 18-year-old divide. All you have to do is talk to people on both sides to see it.“
„He was forty years old and it was great. It was so important to me. That is point one. And the other thing I want to say: I'm gay, I wasn't allowed to be who I was for a long time, and I hope that everyone can imagine what it's like when you can't be who you are.“
„I'm 52 now, and if this relationship ever had any negative consequences, I should have noticed it by now.“
„Recently, while browsing old photos, I found a letter from the monastery times, a shy love letter that was written to me by a priest, when I was twelve years old. And he had enclosed a photo of himself.“
„As for Stan, I’ve always said, if I didn’t meet Stan when I did, I’d probably be dead, in jail, or hooked on drugs somewhere. Stan became the reason I stayed out of trouble. Because I knew there was somebody out there who cared. Who really cared.“
„In any case he is still remembered, an unfaded photograph in the mind's eye, as my first love and the first love I lost.“
„I liked the fact that Carol was a fairly shy intellectual who didn't know how to respond to such a provocative boy like me. I liked to tease and provoke him a bit. To be frank, I had the feeling that I was the dominant party within the relationship.“
„He loved my body and I loved that! He was the first one who gave me pride. He's the greatest man in my life.“
„I still know him. He’s married, has kids, and I don’t think he’s a gay man. He’s bisexual, it seems, because – I found out later – he used to have sex with many women as well. So he just wanted to have sex. And in a sense, maybe, I guess I lucked out.“
„What I told you ... how common is this?
I began: Frank, childhood sexual abuse is very common. Approximately one in five children -
No, not the sexual abuse part, I know kids get abused - for Chist's sakes it's in the papers all the time... What I am asking is if other kids react to it like I did ... you know, do what I did?“
„And I suddenly realized at that moment, we’re not gonna have sex tonight. It’s not gonna work. Something’s changed, and it was only four years ago. That’s when I realized he was a pedophile.“
„I wasn't willing to do the same things to him that he did to me.“
„When I was eight, I seduced a 32-year-old at the swimming pool“
„Psychologist: [...] And in order to do that, I’m afraid, Stephen, you’re going to have to accept that you really were traumatized as a child in quite a number of ways. And I know that you don’t want to think about that because you think it’s weak and suppy.
Fry: No, not that it’s weak. I want to be honest. I want to be absolutely honest.“
„I mean to say that Malcolm wasn't interested in me solely because I was young—he thought I was an interesting person, he thought spending time around me was a really enjoyable thing to do. The fact that I was young just made it a little extra novel, I think.“
„As a boy, I had a sexual relationship that was very important to my gay development with a man whom I later learned was a pederast.“
„I think if this sort of thing was tolerated I would not have felt so fucking alienated, so hated, as a child, I would have not been an outcast.“
„When I was 10 and 12 I had sex with guys my age. It was miserable! In puberty I wanted an experienced man who showed me how to do it. I think if the communication is right and everything is based on mutual consent, everyone should be able to do what they want.“
„But then I began to detect something else in his eyes. Something that reminded me of my dog, Brutus. It was hunger that I saw. And being a hungry, attention-starved teenager myself, I gave him back the same look he gave me.“
„But can you be blamed for that? Certainly, you are not responsible for the fact that society rejects sex between adults and children and that this made me struggle with feelings of shame and guilt. The only thing you can be blamed for is that by allowing sex in our relationship, you left me with a problem that I didn't know what to do with as a 12-year-old.“
„So it was true! My feeling hadn't deceived me. I eyed the man sitting next to me and he took off his sunglasses and put them on my nose.“
„When I was being beaten up, the authorities did nothing. Now I'm gay and want to have sex, they're suddenly very concerned about my welfare.“
„The first time, I went back to Sceaux on the subway and I kept thinking, “If people around me knew …” Knew that I just made love with a man. How would they have reacted, these stupefied housewives with the stare of a melancholic cow, these little businessmen in their lousy suits, these students with glasses …“
„Interviewer: So you can say that because Ferdinand is pedophile, that that is a negative aspect?
Johnny: No! Being pedophile itself is not a negative aspect! But just to explain that to my family, or to keep his orientation hidden from them.“
„What do you really think yourself about your having sex with Bert?
I think it's very nice, but I also want to do it with a girl.“
„I remember an agreeable session when I was at Lancing, lying on top of the Sussex downs with a man of about fifty. At the time I was in quarantine after a bout of measles and had been allowed out for a walk from the school sanatorium: I only hope he didn’t catch anything. The pleasure was mutual, the fault, if there were one, mine.“