I had mentioned this in passing, but now the BBC is reporting on it,
In his 2005 book The Bad Life, he [France’s Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand] 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.”
He says
the term “boys” was used loosely
No pun intended?
The perv is finally getting some heat,
But the BBC’s Emma Jane Kirby, in Paris, says that the revelation that a senior cabinet minister was involved in sex tourism, just as the country holds negotiations with Thailand to discuss ways of fighting it, will inevitably embarrass Mr Sarkozy’s government.
It won’t embarrass Mitterand, but it ought to embarrass a government who has him as culture minister.
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The other apologists,will they contribute to Polanski’s defense fund?