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What we stand for

General

MARTIJN Association, founded in 1982, is a platform for discussion about pedophilia. MARTIJN Association fights for the social and societal acceptance of child-adult relationships. In relationships between children and adults that are experienced as pleasant, possible physical intimacy should not have to be a problem. In relation to this physical intimacy, MARTIJN Association proposes four guidelines, namely:

Consent of both child and adult.

Openness towards the parents of the child.

Freedom for the child to withdraw from the relationship at any moment.

Harmony with the child's development.

MARTIJN Association is for the objective, scientifically verifiable truth and against political terror and discrimination. It is a platform for everyone who wants to offer a counterbalance to the dogma that children and youngsters are harmed by friendships and loving intimacy with older persons.

The members of MARTIJN Association have various occupations and views on a lot of subjects. However, what they have in common is the aspiration towards a free and humanly society as far as relationships and sexuality are concerned. MARTIJN Association is against violence, force and dominance in relationships, stands for honesty, openness, lust and love. MARTIJN Association advises everyone to observe the law.

In article 2 of the MARTIJN Association Bylaws, the purpose of the association is being described as follows: "To make debatable the aspiration towards legal and societal acceptance of adult-child relationships."

Thijs (10): "Just like a woman makes love to a man, I see it the same way, fun. And what they feel, I feel too." John (13): "I have no objection to it; well I think it's all right the way it's going, as I already said. And it's love."
-- Translated from: "Jongens over vriendschap en seks met mannen" (Boys about friendship and sex with men), Theo Sandfort, SUA Amsterdam 1986 (2nd edition, 1988, p. 107)

Volunteer aid and action

MARTIJN Association is concerned both with the "volunteer aid" and support to its members and with information supply to members and others. MARTIJN Association:

manages the www.martijn.org website,
speaks with the press and others,
gives advice, aid and information,
looks for dialogue with politics,
strives for cooperation with like-minded groups,
publices four times a year a Newsletter (in Dutch).