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They are probably thinking of Beauvoir and Sartre in particular. Good luck finding a scholarly source on the issue though, unless you're quite happy with citing A Voice For Men or random angry blogs.


No need for it, they published an (two actually) open letter defending sex with children as young as 6:

"the children have not been victims of the slightest violence, but have to the contrary testified before the examining magistrates that they consented"

https://web.archive.org/web/20050404190912/http://www.decadi...


Beauvoir and Sartre had reputation for seducing their students, but not when they were underage (for France's laws of the time).


Neither Sartre nor de Beauvoir where postmodernists (or "pot-modernists"). Poster maybe means some radical left anarchists – also not postmodernists – from the late 70s/early 80s, who had some outlandish (and completely self-serving) ideas about child sexuality.


Foucault, who also signed the letters, is often considered a post-modernist, even if he himself rejected the title.


Yea I know. Postmodern is a snarl world popular amongst certain demographics overrepresented on HN.




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