North American Man/Boy Love Association
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The North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) is a pedophilia and pederasty advocacy organization in the United States. It works to abolish age-of-consent laws criminalizing adult sexual involvement with minors[2][3] and campaigns for the release of men who have been jailed for sexual contacts with minors that did not involve what it considers coercion.[2][4]
Founded | December 2, 1978; 45 years ago (1978-12-02)[1] |
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Founder | David Thorstad |
Type | Unincorporated association |
Focus | Pedophile and pederasty activism |
Location | |
Area served | North America |
Method | Removing age of consent laws |
The group no longer holds regular national meetings, and as of the late 1990s—to avoid local police infiltration—the organization discouraged the formation of local chapters.[4][5] Around 1995, an undercover detective discovered there were 1,100 people on the organization's rolls.[4] NAMBLA was the largest group in International Pedophile and Child Emancipation (IPCE), an international pro-pedophile activist organization.[6] Since then, the organization has dwindled to only a handful of people, with many members joining online pedophile networks, according to Xavier Von Erck, director of operations at the anti-pedophile organization Perverted-Justice.[7] As of 2005[update], a newspaper report stated that NAMBLA was based in New York and San Francisco.[4]