Scandal
SEXUAL ABUSE OF MINORS BY ELITE ARTISTS IS NOT SEEN AS CRIMINAL ACTIVITY
Historically & Currently – pedophilia and sexual exploitation by any other name
Sadly I have diminishing respect and growing contempt for the many educated people within the elite of our arts communities who have double standards towards the artist pedophiles they happily promote.
Take the case of the recently released ‘The Diaries of Donald Friend’ – where Friend wrote openly in his diaries of sex with indigenous and islander children as young as 10 years of age. The National Library of Australia published these important diaries lauding Friend and his genius, while positively refusing to recognise the dark, criminal side of Friend’s behavior. In fact denying he was a pedophile at all.
To deny this dark side is absurd and is doubly damaging to the victims and to historical truth.
The unwillingness of influential people in authority to confront the truth about prominent figures such as Friend, continues to perpetuate the historical and contemporary divide between the hated, despised ‘ordinary pedophile’ and the caring, ‘culturally nurturing artist pedophile’. The outcries for protection of the fugitive child rapist – famed film director Roman Polanski - is a recent case in point.
In my current documentary – ‘A Loving Friend’ – I look at the disturbing attitudes around Donald Friend and other western artist pedophiles on the island of Bali, together with examining the historical mythology of the sexually compliant island child.
‘A Loving Friend’: 
TV and Feature length documentary