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Naomi Wolf faces new row as book confuses persecution of gay men with paedophiles, claim historians
Author accused of misreading criminal records and writing a calumny against gay people
5 February 2021 • 9:00pm
Dr Wolf said she has accurately represented behaviour that was criminalised, and that her book was reviewed and checked by leading scholars
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The American feminist Dr Naomi Wolf has been accused of ignoring evidence of crimes against children to support her view of mid-Victorian Britain as a time when gay men were victims of aggressive persecution by the courts.
In her book Outrages Dr Wolf presents the middle years of the nineteenth century as a time when homosexual men were terrified by the prospect of long prison sentences, including hard labour, because of criminal convictions for “unnatural offences”. ....

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