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Apparently this wasn’t much of a news story when France’s Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand actually wrote it in 2005, but now that he has supported Roman Polanski, everyone is pointing out the part of his memoir where he admits to loving little boy prostitute cock, in Thailand — the very same crime that Roman Polanski committed in the ’70s at Jack Nicholson’s house.
This is what all French people do!
Mr Mitterrand, nephew of late President Francois Mitterrand, is expected to defend himself on TV later on Thursday.
Mr Mitterrand has come under attack from right and left.
In his 2005 book The Bad Life, he 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.”
Mr Mitterrand, 62, has denied being a paedophile, saying the term “boys” was used loosely.
Yeah, but that loose use of the term was kinda sorta self-corrected when he put “young” in front of “boys,” as a modifier.
Anyway, Mitterand/Santelli ‘12.
French minister in “boy sex” row [BBC]
Ceci n’est une paed.
France has a Republican Party?
Maybe he gave them a tip!
3, 2, 1 . . .
NAMBleu.
::tap-dance shuffles off-stage::
Another “obama backer,” right? Who is dumb enough to write their memoirs while they are still active in politics, anyway?
At least ole ted kennedy was smart enough not to let that shit get out until after he died. And he didn’t bang young boys, or little boys, or possibly any boys.
Well, that explains HIS support of Polanski. What about Martin Scorsese and all?
At least he doesn’t look gay.
Tickle me.
Justice Scalia would argue that this type of activity is not exclusively christian, but reserved solely for papists.
Thank heaven, for leetle boys….
Gah. He’s staring right into my undies in that pic.
mardam422: Nice.
Terry: Did you not see Jodi Foster in Taxi Driver?
“Mr Mitterrand, 62, has denied being a paedophile, saying the term “boys” was used loosely.”
So to speak.
Oh, of course the young boys were of age, and perfectly legal. Why else would sex tourists go to Thailand, if not for mature, consenting adults?
MMS: You could of course use young boys however you like, I mean you did pay for them.
The french, they know how to live, they have the savoire vivre. No diapered heterosexual hookerings, no sirreee, they take it to another level.
I didn’t know that Jack Nicholson was a Thai prostitute.
This man’s head is flat enough for flying cocks to use as a landing zone.
Extemporanus: bien joué!
you cannot be serious: medaille argente
And someone in the U.S. named Francois gave money to the Obama campaign, so obviously …
Mitterrand: “Well, your honor, he said he was born in 1999, and that was in the last century was it not?”
TGY: He looks like Richard Nixon’s love child, the product of Richard Nixon and an aircraft carrier.
Well, since the Republican party members in the USA (heh, ‘members’) can’t come out (heh, ‘come out’) too strongly against this sort of thing, I recommend they legislatively change the name of pederastery to “Freedom Fucking.”
Crank Tango: The same kind of people who would, for example, buy an electronic cigarette. Wonkettesters, do ya need the money that bad? You can make booze at home with a still, save lots of money.
Looks like Fred Thompson and Richard Nixon somehow had a child together!
hobospacejunkie: spot on, and ha
As much as I find middle-aged Euro-males dithering underaged prostitutes in third world countries disagreeable, it’s a little difficult to take seriously criticism of Mitterand’s youthful inclinations from a people who allowed “Joe le Taxi,” sung by then 14-years old Vanessa Paradis, to become a number one hit.
He did not share his uncle’s socialist politics, and was brought into the centre-right government …
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
Norbert: Murky buckups, miss sewer!
Do you know how much “une pipe” from a very young Thai boy will run ya nowadays? The article neglected to divulge this important data point that is vital to my exhaustively detailed comparative study of the economic pros-and-cons of drinky girl-related commerce.
Oh, reservoir!
One Yield Regular: I’ve got two tickets to Paradis.
Won’t you pack your bags? We’ll leave tonight…
Monsieur Le Ministre! Dans les bras d’un prostitute! Et meneur! Et un petit garcon! Dans Bangkok!
Sounds waaay too much like,
“Monsieur le ministre est mort? Dans les bras d’un prostitute? Et meneur? Et noir?”
— from La Cage aux Folles
loupgarou: If by “somehow” you mean “actually”, then Oui.
In his defense, Gays will use the word “Boy” for any available male up to the age of 40. Not in his defense, though, ewwww.
Look, as a young homo running wild in the streets of New York City, I had relationships with a few Asian male prostitutes. I was living outside the law myself at times, so that’s what was available to me. Let me tell you something: most of them look like they are 16 or 17 until they are about 26. I’m sure it is the same in Paris. So if you are going overseas to buttsex some Thai kid, it’s not because he’s pretty, or that he looks underage. It’s because he IS a child and you’re getting off on the abuse. Period. Otherwise you’d fine a young-looking hustler and put him in a schoolboy outfit, just like some straights do with young-looking girl whores.
Whole thing is skeevy to me, quite frankly.
MMS: In the language of Balzac, Voltaire, and Flaubert, “boyz” is slang for “writhing gebils”.
you cannot be serious: Win. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/expo/images/e000996584.jpg
Liberte, egalate, fraternate. Heavy on the fraternate, s’il vous plait.
One Yield Regular: Hey, we allowed an even younger Donny Osmond to sing “I’m your puppet”
Also, the term “jeune”, which I can only assume is translated as “young” here has a wider breadth than just “under 18″, and has connotations of youthful appearance (and being unmarried), so maybe he’s not a pedo. But uh, he probably is, because why else would you go to Thailand for it?
I guess this makes me a prudish American but I think I’d be a little squeamish about having a child sex tourism aficionado as culture minister
Yet, no mention of the time Harvey Weinstein blew Big Boy.
S.Luggo: Assuming you meant “writhing gerbils , please leave Jocko out of this.
You sure he doesn’t look gay? Cuz if you were to muppetize him he’s a sure thing as Bert. It fits in with the whole little boys thing.
What a nasty old fishdog.
nappyduggs: bert is evil!
Tommmcatt: I was gonna say, if you’ve seen the the self-described 40-year-old “bois” on manhunt, you’d realize that “young” is a necessary modifier.
How you say in French,
disturbing and criminal?
Because nothing says French Culture like an under-age, illiterate sex-slave from another continent.
Harvey Birdman:
I suppose it’s a state of mind, really.
Thank god I’m not single anymore!
PoignancySelz: perturbant et criminel works I think.
pampl: Eh, it’s nepotism. Frederic is the nephew of Francois Mitterand, the former French president, so he’s totally in due to the Bush Effect.
And hey, they were foreign boys, right? Culture!
Jebus. I’m a live and let live guy, but this is freaking wrong.
Tommmcatt: That’s kinda funny. I used to feel bad about lusting after this teenage waitress (I assumed she was 14, maybe 15) at a Thai place I used to go to for lunch all the time. After she noticed I was a regular, the young waitress became quite chatty and it eventually came out that that she was the owner of the place, and 28 at the time I met her, with a four year-old son at home.
So you never can tell with those Thia folk. But still, ewww.
If he had done this in Vietnam, I would be offended by the colonial implications. Otherwise, allons-y!
A paedophile in what respect Charlie?
Judge not: http://www.morethings.com/god_and_country/jesus/children-jesus-165.jpg
S.Luggo: red and yellow, black and white. they are all pink on the inside. barf, d’ailleurs.
Lascauxcaveman:
I never feel bad about lust. Lust is great, and if you have it for a 16-year-old when you are 40, more power to you- it’s just happening in your head, and I doubt you can help that. It happens to everyone, and if it hasn’t happened to you yet then it just means you don’t go to the beach very often.
You can help acting on it, though.
One Yield Regular: OMG!!! It’s all so clear now!
His ‘yellow sax’
‘knows’ all of the ’streets’ by ‘heart’,
all of the ‘little bars’
all of the ‘dark corners’….
I taught the grandkids a frenchy pr0n-song!!!!
One Night in Bangkok makes a Politician tumble…
PoignancySelz:
How you say in French,
disturbing and criminal?
OTAN, works in Spanish too.
bitchincamaro: Allons enfants de la Thaïlande, J’ai pris le pli de payer!
FIVE AND A HALF INCHES, ALAN!!!
Buttsecks back in Wonkett. Relief floods over me.
Crank Tango: Who’s stupid enough to write memoirs like that in a country with courts?
Oy, the French are just falling over themselves to get mentioned on the news for their perversities. Give me a break. Go write something or be arch on a TV show, for Chrissakes. Yuck, thinking about ugly old guys with ridiculous foreheads having sex with anyone is just gross!
progressiveinga: Crank Tango: peturbant et criminel, Don’t blink Charlie.
Um, even if we except that “young boys” refers to someone over the age of 18 (or 15 the age of consent in both France and Thailand), there’s still the matter of “the SLAVE market [which] excited me enormously.” A SLAVE MARKET?!!?!?
At least Sarko is straight, right?
OK, why don’t we become Team America World Police for this shit? Pick up Polanski, Mitterand, try them in neat little International tribunals and board them in lovely Montana if found guilty? THAT I could defend. Also I feel like republicans could totally get into this too, I mean, we could all be self-righteous pricks together.
DangerousLiberal: Because about blinding yourself.
Do French racists call all colored men “boy”?
Mad Brahms: Why else? Get away from a Euro winter. See if you can find _Tintin Goes to Bangkok_ for details.
Guppy06: Sarkoma is a Hungarian. Look in Freud for his likely perversities.
How do you suppose our 17-18-19 year old boys with guns are satisfying themselves in Iraq and Afghanistan? Some enterprising member of organized crime is bringing them young women/men from China, Thailand, etc. KBR maybe running brothels as well as chow halls. Meanwhile, Iraqi refugees whore themselves in Damascus, etc.
Wasn’t this the plot of “M. Butterfly”?
As a modern, forward looking kind of guy, I have no problem with people having gay sex. However, I have a big problem with old people having sex. I think it should be banned.
Guppy06: Sarkozy fan tutte!
progressiveinga: “A paedophile in what respect Charlie?”
LOL! And, to anyone trying to talk there way around this, there isn’t any. You don’t have to be a prude.
The photo looks like Fred Thompson.
Lascauxcaveman: Most likely your pheromone detectors knew she was 28. It’s not easy to fool Mother Nature, or at least it isn’t nice. :p
Has Mark Foley written his memoirs yet?
Tommmcatt: “I suppose it’s a state of mind, really.”
Indeed it is - I stopped allowing myself to be referred to as “(a) Bearboy” when I hit 28 or so…
proudgrampa: Not to defend creepy child-exploiting preverts, but I remember being a horny 18yo who actively, deliberately pursued a man in his early 40s, with the intention of losing my virginity with him…. so the whole “age” thing isn’t black-white with me.