German working group pederasty

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The German Pederasty Working Group (DAP) was the first association of pedophile men in West Germany. It was founded in 1973 by Helmut W. Bendt in Berlin under the name "German Working Group of Affected Persons of Section 175 ". From 1974 the association, which was part of the West German pedophile movement, was no longer politically active.

history

In 1970, the publisher Helmut W. Bendt founded the Pikbube magazine, the first West German pederast magazine . Bendt was an activist of the IHWO (International Homosexual World Organization) and participated in the founding of the first IHWO regional group in Berlin. He recruited members from the readership of this magazine to found his first association. The pedophiles around Bendt, who call themselves “boy lovers”, for the first time explicitly differentiated themselves from “ordinary” homosexuals, whose sexuality they saw as a phenomenon of “moral decline”. The establishment of the DAP at the beginning of the 1970s can be seen in the context of the emergence of a public discourse on pedosexuality . Organizationally, the DAP deteriorated quickly and proved to be incapable of joining the left-wing gay movement that was emerging in these years . Bendt distanced himself from the latter in his articles: “New confused ideologies are poisoning our society. We should make it our business to protect our young friends from infection as much as possible. Sociology and psychology roll over nonsensical ›knowledge‹ [...] the world is gradually becoming a madhouse. "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Alexander Hensel, Tobias Neef, Robert Pausch: From »Knabenliebhabern« and »Power-Pädos«. On the origin and development of the West German pedophile movement, in: Franz Walter, Alexander Hensel, Stephan Klecha: The Greens and Pedosexuality. A German story. Göttingen, 2014, pp. 136–159, here p. 141
  2. ↑ Tobias Neef: The "strongest taboo". On the taboo of pedosexuality and its questioning, in: INDES. Journal for Politics and Society, 2014–2, pp. 81–90, here pp. 83–85
  3. ↑ Alexander Hensel, Tobias Neef, Robert Pausch: From "Knabenliebhabern" and "Power-Pädos" - On the origin and development of the West German pedophile movement. In: Franz Walter, Alexander Hensel, Stephan Klecha: The Greens and Pädosexuality: a West German story. Göttingen 2014, pp. 136–159, here p. 142.