They argued the idea of legal consent is a contractual notion and a "trap", saying that "no one makes a contract before making love". The participants, Michel Foucault, Jean Danet and Guy Hocquenghem, had all signed the 1977 petition, along with other intellectuals. On April 4, 1978, a conversation detailing the reasons for their positions was broadcast by radio France Culture in the program " Dialogues".
The petition also explicitly addresses the 'Affaire de Versailles', where three adult men, Dejager (age 45), Gallien (age 43), and Burckhardt (age 39) had sexual intercourse with minors from both genders aged 12–13.
AGE OF CONSENT IN FRANCE CODE
It then calls for a commission called the Commission de Révision du Code Pénal (Penal Code Revision Commission) to review the age of consent and recommend changes to parliament. The main body of the text calls for the end of discrimination against homosexual men encoded in the 1945 ordinance. Michel Foucault stated that the petition was signed by himself, by the novelist/gay activist Guy Hocquenghem, the actor/play-writer/jurist Jean Danet, pediatrician and child psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto and also by people belonging to a wide range of political positions. Foucault also believed consent, as a concept, was a "contractual notion", and that it was not a sufficient measure of whether harm was being conducted Foucault, Sartre, and newspapers such as Libération and Le Monde each defended the idea of sexual relationships with minors. Michel Foucault argued that it is intolerable to assume that a minor is incapable of giving meaningful consent to sexual relations. This was perceived by activists, including Michel Foucault and Guy Hocquenghem, as being discriminatory against gay men. However, an article within this ordinance forbade sodomy and similar "sexual relations against nature" with any person under the age of 21. In 1945, an ordinance was enacted by the French government that established an age of consent in France of 15. The laws were considered an infringement on the sexual autonomy of children. In 1977, another petition was addressed to the French parliament calling for the abrogation of several articles of the age of consent law. In 19, two open letters were published in French newspapers defending individuals arrested under charges of statutory rape. No one signs a contract before making love." The same year, Michel Foucault presented to the Commission for the Revision of the Penal Code to equalize and lower the age of consent to 13. What is sure is that the legal form of an intersexual consent is nonsense. This notion of consent is a trap, in any case. Many of the signatories – including, but not limited to Foucault, Danet and Hocquenghem – later argued in favor of legalizing sex with children, claiming a child can consent - "listen to what the child says and give it a certain credence. In 1979 two open letters were published in French newspapers defending individuals arrested under charges of statutory rape, in the context of reformation of age of consent laws.
A number of French intellectuals-including Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Louis Aragon, Roland Barthes, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Félix Guattari, Michel Leiris, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Philippe Sollers, Jacques Rancière, Jean-François Lyotard, Francis Ponge, Bernard Besret and various prominent doctors and psychologists-signed the petition. In 1977, a petition was addressed to the French parliament calling for the abrogation of several articles of the age of consent law. Petition to review Age of Consent Laws 1977
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