From The European Conservative
Pedophilia needs to become a socially respected sexual orientation, says a statement issued by the Young Democrats, the youth wing of the Dutch Democratic party (D66) which is part of the four-member governing coalition in The Hague.
The statement was published months ago after being accepted by the organization’s last general meeting but largely went unnoticed outside the Netherlands until earlier this week, when it resurfaced among English-speaking Twitter users. “Pedophilia is a sexual orientation that one is born with,” the original Dutch text declares.
With over 3,500 members, The Young Democrats (JD) is one of the country’s largest political youth organizations, which claims to be “politically independent” but “affiliated with the social-liberal party D66.” According to its mission statement, JD promotes the “radical democratization” of society, as well as European federalism, individual freedom, and economic sustainability. JD runs several branches throughout the Netherlands and offers membership to activists as young as 12.
In its statement, the Young Democrats noted that pedophilia should be normalized by society as a sexual orientation because the stigma currently associated with it leads to pedophiles having a “higher chance of depression,” many of whom “consider committing suicide,” and because of the absence of an available sexual identity this element of society—especially teenagers— could associate with.
In fact, the normalization of pedophilia has been ongoing for some time now in many Western countries, usually by rebranding the term as “pedosexuality” or using “minor-attracted person,” with the specific endorsement of the European Union itself.
