AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, May 30 (UPI) -- A new political party in the Netherlands is dedicated to legalizing sex between adults and children.
Ad van den Berg, founder of the NVD Party, told the newspaper AD that the party plans to lobby first to lower the age of sexual consent from 16 to 12 and then to phase it out completely. He said that pedophilia used to be something that people in the country were willing to discuss but, because of Belgian killer Marc Dutroux, they are all "being put in the same box."
"Forbidding makes children all the more curious," Van den Berg said. "Rearing is also about introducing children to sex."
He said that the party advocates only consensual sex.
The party plans its official launch Wednesday. Its full name is Naastenliefde, Vrijheid en Diversiteit, or Love, Freedom and Diversity.
