Frédéric Mitterrand, the French culture minister and the first major political figure to leap to the defense of Roman Polanski, admitted in his autobiography that he paid “young boys” for sex while he was traveling in Thailand.
Here’s how the Guardian UK reports the story:
Mitterrand’s impassioned comments in support of Polanski, who had initially faces charges of rape, and against an “a frightening America”, were controversial and the French government eventually distanced itself.
But Mitterrand’s critics on the political extreme right and the left have now questioned his suitability for office over his self-confessed penchant for “young boys” in Bangkok.
In his bestselling autobiographical work, The Bad Life, published in 2005, Mitterrand describes travelling round Thailand, confessing: “I got into the habit of paying for boys”.
He wrote of his attraction to young male prostitutes despite knowing “the sordid details” of the sex trade. “All these rituals of the market for youths, the slave market excited me enormously … the abundance of very attractive and immediately available young boys put me in a state of desire.”
French. Culture. Minister. ‘Nuff said.
Source: Guardian UK
