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>Socrates
married a woman 40 years younger than him, groomed teenage boys
>Plato
wrote that “spiritual” love between men and boys was better than all other kinds of love
>Aristotle
said the ideal marrying age was 37 for men and 18 for women
>Sappho
groomed teenage girls
>Sophocles, Euripides, Theocritus, Horace, Virgil, Petronius, Catullus
flagrant pederasts, multiple accounts of Sophocles molesting hairless boys
>Julius Caesar
married a 13 year old girl and later a 17 year old
>Saint Augustine
had a 10 year old fiancée
>Muhammad
had sex with a 9 year old girl
>Peter Abelard
groomed Heloise when she was 15
>Thomas More
married a 17 year old girl when he was 27
>Christopher Marlowe
pederast
>Cervantes
married a 15 year old girl
>Francis Bacon
had sex with underage boys
>Milton
married a 17 year old girl when he was 34
>Molière
married a 17 year old girl when he was 40
>Goethe
had sex with underage girls and boys
>Walt Whitman
relationship with 13 year old boy
>Henry David Thoreau
fell in love with an 11 year old boy and wrote a poem about it
>Edgar Allen Poe
married a 13 year old girl when he was 27
>Lewis Carroll
took inappropriate photographs of underage girls
>Charles Dickens
had an affair with an 18 year old girl when he was 45
>Oscar Wilde, Andre Gide, Gustave Flaubert
had sex with Algerian boy prostitutes
>Verlaine and Rimbaud
toxic age-gap relationship
>Friedrich Nietzsche
apologist for man-boy love
>Leo Tolstoy
raped a female servant, married an 18 year old when he was 34
>WB Yeats
proposed to a girl he knew since she was 4
>Martin Heidegger
groomed Hannah Arendt when she was 19 and he was 35
>Henry James
wrote a story about man-boy love
>Thomas Mann
attracted to his own son, stalked a Polish shota around Venice and wrote a book about it
>Marcel Proust
wrote a short story called 'Pederasty' about wanting to live in a boy utopia
>WH Auden
relationship with 14 year old boy
>Sartre and Beauvoir
groomed teenage girls from the school Beauvoir taught at
>Foucault, Barthes, Sartre, Beauvoir, Deleuze, Derrida, Guattari, Lyotard, Althusser
signed petition to abolish the age of consent
>Allen Ginsberg, Camille Paglia, Samuel R. Delany
members of NAMBLA
>Pablo Neruda
self-confessed rapist
>JD Salinger
pedophile obsessed with loli feet
>William S. Burroughs
pederast
>Lawrence Durrell
molested his daughter
>Arthur C. Clarke
molested boys in Sri Lanka

>Socrates
married a woman 40 years younger than him, groomed teenage boys
>Plato
wrote that “spiritual” love between men and boys was better than all other kinds of love
>Aristotle
said the ideal marrying age was 37 for men and 18 for women
>Sappho
groomed teenage girls
>Sophocles, Theocritus, Horace, Virgil, Petronius, Catullus
flagrant pederasts, multiple accounts of Sophocles molesting hairless boys
>Julius Caesar
married a 13 year old girl and later a 17 year old
>Saint Augustine
had a 10 year old fiancée
>Muhammad
had sex with a 9 year old girl
>Peter Abelard
groomed Heloise when she was 15
>Thomas More
married a 17 year old girl when he was 27
>Cervantes
married a 15 year old girl
>Francis Bacon
had sex with underage boys
>Milton
married a 17 year old girl when he was 34
>Molière
married a 17 year old girl when he was 40
>Goethe
had sex with underage girls and boys
>Walt Whitman
relationship with 13 year old boy
>Edgar Allen Poe
married a 13 year old girl when he was 27
>Lewis Carroll
took inappropriate photographs of underage girls
>Oscar Wilde, Andre Gide
had sex with Algerian boy prostitutes
>Verlaine and Rimbaud
toxic age-gap relationship
>Leo Tolstoy
raped a female servant, married an 18 year old when he was 34
>WB Yeats
proposed to a girl he knew since she was 4
>Martin Heidegger
Groomed Hannah Arendt when she was 19 and he was 35
>WH Auden
relationship with 14 year old boy
>Sartre and Beauvoir
groomed teenage girls from the school Beauvoir taught at
>Foucault, Barthes, Sartre, Beauvoir, Deleuze, Derrida, Guattari, Lyotard, Althusser
signed petition to abolish the age of consent
>Allen Ginsberg, Camille Paglia, Samuel R. Delany
members of NAMBLA
>Pablo Neruda
self-confessed rapist