So in conformity with the atavistic sexual schizophrenia of this young male population, a woman, hated and put down, is the object of desire, frustration, and contempt. Romance between young people is out of the question. It is impossible for a boy and girl to talk or flirt in public, or even to hold hands. Moreover, boys are jealous of each other and hate whoever has a ‘babe’ unless it is one of the hoodlum kingpins. The greatest achievement for these latter is to be able to show off a native French girlfriend, much more prestigious than a North African girl or, a fortiori, a Black girl.
Teenage girls and young women, according to the study cited, remain cloistered in their apartments. Everyone respects these ‘laws’ imposed by men (all Muslim, of course) out of fear; for a system of neighbourhood surveillance and denunciation of women has been instituted in these neighborhoods. Woe upon a woman who breaks the rules, who has a real or suspected boyfriend, who dresses coquettishly or enticingly, who asserts her autonomy: she will be insulted, harassed, and persecuted by those around her. Many of these young women keep their mouths shut and suffer in silence, hoping for help from an impotent and basically indifferent government.
Numerous anecdotes from all over Western Europe indicate that if a young Muslim woman (North African, Turkish, etc.) gets involved with a native, non-Muslim man, even just visiting or conversing with him, she risks serious punishment from those around her — sometimes going as far as keeping her sequestered, beating her, or even putting her to death. In this ethno-religious tradition which is unfurling its tentacles through Europe, women belong, soul and body, to the men of their clan; they are their property. This will to forcibly retain possession of the clan’s female livestock takes on a racial aspect, even among North Africans; the above-cited study mentions the case of a North African father who threatened to kill his daughter if she married a Senegalese.
Neither the oh-so-virtuous anti-racist leagues, nor the Equal Opportunity and Anti-Discrimination Commission, nor feminist groups (apart, perhaps, from Neither Whores Nor Submissive) ever mention this crying matter of the oppression of women in immigrant neighbourhoods. It would be racist to stigmatise this whole population, wouldn’t it? Even if the situation contravenes the Rights of Man, and of woman.
To Be a Homophobe is Prohibited; To Be a Paedophile is Permissible
Vague and imprecise laws now forbid ‘homophobia’,[27] and people who dare to say that homosexuality is not normal are prosecuted and punished. There will soon be laws against those who criticise feminism. But those who defend paedophilia, which ought really to be called pederasty, are not prosecuted (fortunately, for I am in favour of free expression). This is a double standard. Those who express the view that sexual relations between men are abnormal are suppressed, but not those who defend sexual relations between an adult and a child. In other words, those who criticise an authorised form of behaviour are suppressed, but not those who defend a prohibited form of behaviour. It’s an upside-down world, and the perfectly illustrates the inversion of values in which our society delights.
Public opinion — especially since the Dutroux scandal[28] (1996) and those involving paedophile priests, or Internet sites devoted to this perversion — has risen again very strongly against paedophilia, and rightly so. The justice system is changing accordingly. In May 1968, several authors recounted their experiences of paedophilia without being criticised. Think of Gabriel Matzneff,[29] who liked to dwell upon his pederastic affairs with the exhibitionism and pretentious insignificance which characterise his fictionalised stories. Today, defence of paedophilia must be soft-pedaled — they don’t dare advance too far into this minefield. And yet....
The bien pensant ‘cultural elites’, followed by the political class, were united in their indignation in the autumn of 2009 when Marine Le Pen read passages from Frédéric Mitterrand’s book The Bad Life on television, where he confesses to sexual experiences that are considered crimes under French law.[30] Why did he confess such things to the public at large? Because, like a lot of sex maniacs, he is narcissistic and likes to talk about himself. Mitterrand has, we should add, denied that the story involved relations with minors, saying only that they involved grown men, contrary to what he implies in the text in question. But just imagine if it were discovered that a notable figure of the ‘extreme-Right’ had done something along similar lines. Would not the bien pensant elites, guardians of the nation’s conscience, have raised a hue and cry against the jackass? This charge against the Minister of Culture by Marine Le Pen came shortly after said Minister’s vehement protests against the arrest in Switzerland of director Roman Polanski, which followed an extradition request by the American justice system for an old affair involving the drugging and rape of a minor. The bien pensant elites petitioned for the release of Polanski. Would they have done so for a film director who was part of the ‘extreme-Right’? All of this also followed an attack by François Bayrou (for purely political reasons) on Daniel Cohn-Bendit, who had earlier revealed in a book his innocent paedophile practices.
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But here is a more interesting case: Frédéric Beigbeder, worldly journalist, writer, and night-prowler very fashionable on the Left Bank came to the defence of paedophilia apologists in the magazine Lire shortly after the aforementioned scandals came to light.[31] He asserts: ‘You should be able to write on all subjects, on shocking, ignoble, and awful matters. Writing should also explore what excites and attracts us about Evil. For example, one should have the courage to confront the idea that a child is sexy.’ A child is, then sexually attractive for monsieur Beigbeder, and he seems to think, like all abnormal people, that this is the case for everyone. He admits that he is attracted by children, although (one hopes) he hasn’t acted on this attraction. Then, in the same article, he goes on to defend two second-rate authors who, like him, are interested in paedophilia: Gabriel Matzneff, mentioned above, author of Particular Friendships, an affected little novel today forgotten, and Pierre Louÿs, a pornographer from the beginning of the twentieth century, today forgotten. Beigbeder admiringly cites a sentence from Louÿs’ Little Girls’ Virility Manual, For the Use of Educational Establishments, published in 1926. Here is the sentence which so sets him dreaming and which he refers to with such enjoyment: ‘From the age of eight, it is unimaginable that a girl should still be a virgin, even if she has been sucking dick for several years.’ No comment required.
If I were Minister of Police in a well-governed state, I would certainly not outlaw such statements or prosecute individuals for their written opinions, for liberty of expression is untouchable for me, but I would put their authors under heavy surveillance in order to corner them the day they proceed from word to act. I would have their telephone and Internet connection monitored and have them followed by my agents. For just as a person who sings the praises of burglary, mugging, terrorism and who-knows-what else needs to be closely watched, so too do the apologists for paedophilia. Unfortunately, only small prey are followed, namely the anonymous paedophiles who download child pornography. But as soon as it is people known to everyone in Paris who are concerned, people with full address books, important people — well, that is another matter.
It is only a small step from literary fantasy to action, one which has often been made.
[1] In 2010, the pornographic industry generated somewhere between five and ten billion dollars in the West and Japan, counting only audiovisual representations.
[2] Some of the recurring subjects treated in magazines marketed at women include: My husband no longer desires me and is cheating. Is it normal for me to refuse to fellate him? I am envious of my daughter, who is prettier than I am. At the office, my boss is making advances towards me and it excites me; what should I do, doctor? My best friend is sleeping with my boyfriend. I have hit menopause and am no longer attractive to men; what should I do? My partner has had relations with transvestites; should I leave him? I no longer
desire my husband and I have had relations with a female work colleague, etc. All this is presented in the form of readers’ mail (whether genuine or not matters little) to which the in-house pseudo-shrink responds.
[3] Israel Nisand, a Strasbourg gynecologist, advocates anonymous and free contraception for minors, and only the distribution of hormonal contraceptives could be anonymous and free. He regrets that a 2001 law making sex education obligatory at school has not been applied, and laments that the sexual education of the young occurs through misogynistic and violent pornographic films. This is understandable, but his position is a bit naïve: the idea of sex education as part of a school curriculum is completely utopian. All the more so in that, when you throw in the current ideology of gender theory, you will arrive at a legitimation of homosexuality.
[4] L’Empire des senses, broadcast 16 January 2011.
[5] La Révolution Asexuelle! (Albin Michel, 2006).
[6] Anthropologische Forschung (Rowohlt Verlag, 1961) and Die Seele im Technischen Zeitalter (ibid., 1957).
[7] Jean-Claude Guillebaud, La tyrannie du plaisir (Seuil, 1998).
[8] J-D Nasio, L’Œdipe (Payot, 2006).
[9] Hélène Vecchiali, Ainsi soient-ils (Calmann-Lévy, 2005).
[10] One of the most erotic and elegant feminine fashions in France was that of the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century, culminating under the regency (1715–23). The shoulders, arms, and edge of the breasts supported by the corset were entirely bare almost to the nipples, while the woman’s waist was thrown into relief and emphasised by tightening the corset (the ‘wasp-waist’) over the hips. The legs were carefully concealed by a low-hanging skirt, with only the ankles visible. During the time of the Second Empire (1852–70) the fashion for crinoline — amplifying the width of the hips and narrowness of the waist, while emphasising the bust — obviously had an erotic intent, a subtle transgression within the heart of modesty.
As for men, we may mention that at the beginning of the nineteenth century white fitted trousers (tights) were common, especially among officers. Rising from the boots and ending at the knees, they emphasised for women the humps suggestive of manly attributes.
[11] Marivaudage, the romantic banter or ‘sweet nothings’ which the French still associate with the eighteenth century comedies of Pierre de Marivaux (1688–1763). –Tr.
[12] The reform of police custody (2011), the possibility of contesting the constitutionality of a conviction (2010), along with the omnipotence of sentencing judges are among the measures which, in the name of democracy and the Rights of Man, aim at the maximum of impunity for criminals of all sorts at precisely the moment when crime is exploding.
[13] They can be found in the Annuaire statistique de la justice [Judicial Statistical Yearbook –Tr.].
[14] The murderer of Nelly Crémel, Patrick Gateau, had previously been sentenced to life imprisonment for murder but was let out on parole in 2003 after having served 19 years. He was found guilty in 2008 for having fatally shot Crémel and given another life sentence with a minimum of 22 years to serve. –Ed.
[15] The affair of Dominique Strauss-Kahn and its various soap opera after-effects in America and France reveal a curious attitude of our elites. Strauss-Kahn suffers from a sexual pathology popularly known as ‘impulsive priapism’. All of Paris has known this for a long time. In France, his media appearances and new of him was consumed indulgently. This indulgence reached the point of absurdity in a staged interview he did for the evening news on French television (19 September 2011, network TF1) with the pseudo-journalist Claire Chazal, a friend of his wife Anne Sinclair. Generally speaking, the psychopathic behaviour of this violent harasser has left his peers unmoved for many years now.
[16] Do not judge a man for his crimes. –Ed.
[17] Michela Marzano, Le contrat de défiance (The Contract of Defiance; Grasset, 2010).
[18] Statistics of the Ministry of Justice for 2011.
[19] La colonisation de l’Europe (Paris: L’Ænce, 2000). There is currently no English edition available. –Ed.
[20] The very young age of these perpetrators of sexual violence counts as evidence of their ethnic origin. Blacks reach puberty earlier than other peoples (the phenomenon of neoteny), just as African women are pregnant for eight and three-quarters rather than nine months, a fact which is concealed. Young African girls are assigned a mate and are impregnable much earlier than girls of other populations. These observations throw doubt upon the dogma of monogenesis.
[21] Denial of reality is, along with a belief in miracles, one of the leading characteristics of all Leftist ideologies. These ‘anti-racist’ Left-wing teachers who refuse to look reality in the face are obeying the same conditioned reflex as intellectuals of the 1950s-70s who spoke of the Soviet paradise.
[22] Zones sensibles, the official French euphemism for high-immigrant/high-crime neighborhoods. –Tr.
[23] Statistics from the General Inspectorate of Social Affairs. It was in 1975, when the law permitting abortion was passed, that abortion was first termed ‘voluntary termination of pregnancy’. This euphemism suggests a certain bad conscience. Why not call a spade a spade?
[24] France is the country of commissions, supervisory bodies, agencies, authorities, councils, institutes, committees, etc., piled one on top of the other. With these innumerable ineffective and costly structures filled with incompetent people (there are nearly 1000 at the national and regional level), the political class controls its clients and rewards its friends.
[25] The French département of Seine-Saint-Denis, immediately to the North and East of Paris, has the highest proportion of immigrants anywhere in France. –Tr.
[26] Didier Lapeyronnie, Urban Ghetto (Robert Laffont, 2008).
[27] The Homophobia Act of 15 December 2004 provides for ‘the punishment of homophobic and sexist discourse’.
[28] Marc Dutroux is a Belgian child molester and serial killer who was released on parole in 1992 after having served three years for the abduction and rape of five young girls. Following his release, Dutroux went on to abduct, rape, and kill several more girls. –Ed.
[29] A French writer who sparked controversy after admitting a taste for teens of both sexes aged under sixteen in an essay titled ‘Cons of sixteen’ (1974). –Ed.
[30] Frédéric Mitterrand, nephew of former French President François Mitterrand, served as Minister of Culture and Communication in the government of Nicolas Sarkozy. In his autobiographical story, The Bad Life (La mauvaise vie; Robert Laffont, 2005), he describes homosexual prostitution in Thailand. –Tr.
[31] Frédéric Beigbeder, Lire, November 2009, ‘Concerning Paedophilia in Literature’.
Chapter 7
Ineradicable Prostitution
No society, no ideology, no religion has ever succeeded in eradicating prostitution. Despite most of them having considered it a shameful activity, there hasn’t even been the intention of doing so. Prostitution was always tolerated and occasionally organised by even the most puritanical societies, by those with the greatest (albeit somewhat hypocritical) concern for ‘good morals’. From bordellos overseen by the State (authorised until 1946) to quasi-official military bordellos, prostitution has always prevailed as an ineradicable social fact and an extraordinary collective need. Intentions to ‘suppress prostitution’ is just as utopian and stupid as the attempts to prohibit alcohol in the United States im the 1920s.
On the other hand, prostitution is not a well-defined ‘profession’ but an activity with vague boundaries. It predominantly involves women, though men are also found. Prostitution is the sale of sexual favours for money, of course, but also
for all kinds of advantages. It can be acknowledged, unacknowledged, explicit, implicit, direct, or devious.
The reason for the perennialism of prostitution is simple. Among both sexes, though primarily among men, the purely physiological need to have sexual relations is distinct from ‘love’. A need for raw sex prevails, in particular among bachelors as well as partners who are no longer attracted to each other (a large proportion past a certain age). This type of sex differs from the affectionate sex typical among couples in love.
Prostitution also teaches us that sex is a market like any other, and that the human body is (also) a product. It can take all forms: professional and institutional, illegal or dissimulated, sordid or worldly, brutal or delicate. The moral condemnation of prostitution poses a problem. In general, very few people (and this is fortunate) condemn prostitutes (either female or male). But everyone agrees in thinking that prostitution per se is an evil, a scourge. This is the thesis that I would contest. On the contrary, I maintain that prostitution is a necessary social activity, but that it should be regulated like any other profession.
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