Paedophile Information Exchange
The Paedophile Information Exchange was a British organisation founded in October 1974, originally set up by Edinburgh-based student Michael Hanson. Like NAMBLA, it can perhaps be seen as an example of sexual rights gone mad.
The group's aim was to campaign for the rights of paedophiles. In 1976 it began publishing a magazine entitled Understanding Paedophilia which was later replaced with the punnishly-named Magpie. Amongst the contents of Magpie were book and film reviews written from a paedophilic angle.[1]
The group came to the public's attention in late 1977; at the time it had around 250 members.[1]
During the course of its existence, PIE absorbed a similar group called Paedophile Action for Liberation, itself a breakaway from the Gay Liberation Front.[1]
The National Council for Civil Liberties was loosely affiliated with PIE in the 1970s.[2]
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