“I got into the habit of paying for boys ... The profusion of young, very attractive and immediately available boys put me in a state of desire I no longer needed to restrain or hide” – French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterand’s book
It must be nice being the French Minister of Culture, although it’s hard to imagine anyone defending eating snails, because you get to have the best of both worlds. In the case of Frederic Mitterand, he can admit to being bisexual and biliterate, saying his best-selling book The Bad Life, in which he delighted in having sex with young boys in Thailand (paying for prostitutes enhances your c.v when applying for the position of French Culture Minister) wasn’t about his life, but someone resembling his. We thought only Superman had a Bizzaro world, but Mitterand said his book was neither fiction nor completely autobiographical, so maybe it should have been called The Double Life so he could keep spouting fiction out of both sides of his mouth, when it’s not otherwise occupied with young boys in Thailand. The French also delight in defending their private lives too, some of which are so sordid even the Italians would reel if they knew what was going on, and their sex scandals come right from the prime minister’s office.
It’s so impressive when your culture minister admits to paying prostitutes although it’s hard to imagine himself spreading anything other than … well, you get the ugly picture. After Mitterand defended a world-class pedophile, Polish film director Roman Polanski, who prefers young girls to boys, the culture minister found himself having to defend the non-autobiographical, non-fictional book about the life of someone resembling him, and saved his job with a rant in which he said he had never engaged in sexual tourism. If paying for prostitutes in Thailand isn’t sexual tourism, what is?
Mitterand admitted having had sexual relations with “boys” in southeast Asia, but denied that they were minors. “One must not confound pedophilia with homosexuality,” he said. Or bisexuality either, so young girls – although not underage of course - in Thailand might have to hide the next time he’s in the country. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, now a gutless wonder too because of his support for his sexually-touring boy-loving (although not underage of course) Culture Minister, called the attacks on Mitterand “pathetic,” a term Sarkozy should have applied to himself for defending the crawling cretin he appointed. Sarkozy, who never saw a skirt he didn’t like to chase, said Mitterand’s book was “courageous and talented,” although you have to wonder what the Thai government thinks and Mitterand will have to find boys in other countries to solicit now, so let him try France.
At one point, the French police union said it would ask a Paris prosecutor to open an investigation of Mitterand on charges of soliciting a minor, but that faded away after Sarkozy stood by his man, but not under him like a young boy in Thailand. “We feel it is our duty to protect society against sexual predators, even if they are ministers,” the France Police trade union said, but since the person resembling Mitterand can’t be found and had sexual tourism sex with young boy prostitutes in Thailand who weren’t underage, where’s the case? You’d think that even if your culture minister wasn’t engaging in pedophilia, that engaging in sexual tourism would be enough to give him the boot, but he’s more likely to get the Legions D’Honneur, which he can award to himself, because in the end (perhaps a bad choice of words) he really does represent the best of French culture and they must be so proud.
 
 Andy@NEurope.eu