| | PIE members lobbied Parliament and demonstrated there. They issued demands that the age of consent for sexual activity should be reduced to four (years not months). | | PIE members lobbied Parliament and demonstrated there. They issued demands that the age of consent for sexual activity should be reduced to four (years not months). |
| − | In 1977 PIE sent delegates to the NCCL conference at Swansea, and invited pro-pedophile campaigners from the Continent to come to Britain to speak. One of these was Dr Edward Brongersma, a Dutch MP, who spoke at the conference of the [[Campaign for Homosexual Equality]] in Nottingham in August 1977,in favor of reducing or abolishing the legal age of consent, and received a standing ovation.<ref> Mathew Thomson, ''Lost Freedom: The Landscape of the Child and the British Post-War Settlement, | + | In 1977 PIE sent delegates to the NCCL conference at Swansea, and invited pro-pedophile campaigners from the Continent to come to Britain to speak. One of these was Dr Edward Brongersma, a Dutch MP, who spoke at the conference of the [[Campaign for Homosexual Equality]] in Nottingham in August 1977, in favor of reducing or abolishing the legal age of consent, and received a standing ovation.<ref> Mathew Thomson, ''Lost Freedom: The Landscape of the Child and the British Post-War Settlement, |
| | '' OUP Oxford, 2013, p.174-176.</ref> | | '' OUP Oxford, 2013, p.174-176.</ref> |