Milo Yiannopoulos about the age of consent

[TJ Kirk:] If I knew someone around my age that was like 'I just had sex with a thirteen year old,' I would be creeped out, honestly.

[Milo Yiannopoulos:] What's your age?

[Interviewer:] I'm almost 35.

[Yiannopoulos:] Okay, well I'm talking about 28-year-olds.

[Paul:] [Sarcastic:] Well that changes everything.

[Yiannopoulos:] I'm guessing, because I never told this publicly, that you won't hear that in this video. We're talking about 13/25, 13/28. These things do happen, perfectly consensually. Often by the way it's the women who's suffering. It normally happens in schools, very often. It is an older woman with a younger boy, and the boy is the predator in this situation. The boy is like: 'Let's see if I can fuck the gym teacher' or 'Let's see if I can fuck the hot maths teacher.' And he does. The women fall in love with these [word difficult to hear] young men, these athletic young boys in their prime. And end up having their lives destroyed. Having to move schools, move the country, whatever. I would say, in the situation I described in the Joe Rogan show, I was very definitely the predator on both occasions. You know, as offensive as some people will find that, I don't much care. That was certainly my experience. I was very much the predator in these situations.

[Interviewer:] So Ben, - Hold on Milo, one second - Ben, you said you'd be creeped out if someone dame to you and said they had sex with a 13-year-old. But what if they said, you know, the 13-year-old, they were the predator.

[Ben (William Berry):] They came on to me.


[Interviewer:] They came on to me.

[Ben:] I mean, it's really, is it that unbelievable if you have some really horny 13-year-old that like just, like coming at your heart... [...]

[Yiannopoulos:] You know the point about all this stuff is. We get hung up on abuse. This is a controversial point of view I accept but, we get hung up on this child abuse stuff to the point were we are heavenly policing, even relationships between consenting adults, graduate students and professors at universities. [...]

[Yiannopoulos:] And I think the law is probably about right. That's probably roughly the right age. I think it's probably about OK. But there are certainly people who are capable of giving consent at a younger age. I certainly consider myself to be one of them. People who are sexually active younger. I think it particularly happens in the gay world, by the way. And in many cases actually, those relationships with older; this is one of the reasons why I hate the left. This stupid; one size fits all policing of culture. It's arbitrary in an oppressive idea of consent, which totally destroys the understanding that many of us have: the complexities and suffilties? and complicated nature of many relationships. You know, people are messy and complex. In the homosexual world, particularly, some of those relationships between younger boys and older men, the sort of coming of age relationships, the relationships in which those older men have helped those young boys to discover who they are, and give them security and safety, and provide them with love and a reliable rock, where they can't with their parents. Some of those relationships are some of the most...

[Paul:] It sounds like catholic priests molestation to me.

[Yiannopoulos:] And you know what, I'm grateful for Father Michael, I wouldn't give nearly such good head if it wasn't for him. [...]

[Yiannopoulos:] You misunderstands what pedophilia means. Pedophilia is not a sexual attraction to somebody 13-years old, who is sexually mature. Pedophilia is an attraction to children who have not reached puberty. Pedophilia is an attraction to people who don't have functioning sex organs yet, who have not gone through puberty, who are too young to be able to understand where their body. That is not what we're talking about. You don't understand what pedophilia is, if you think that I'm defending it, because I'm certainly not. [...]

[Yiannopoulos:] I think particularly in the gay world, and outside the catholic church if that's were some of you wanna go with this; in the gay world some of the most important, enriching and incredibly, you know, life effirming, important shaping relationships, very often between younger boys and older men; they can be hugely positive experiences for those young boys. They can even save those young boys from desolation, from suicide, from drug addiction. All sort of things, provided that they're consensual.

[Interviewer:] I'm gonna jump to Milo's defense a little bit, cause I've read stories about people losing their virginities - like gay men losing their virginities - and most of the stories do seem to involve, you know, I was 14 and I was 15 and he was twenty-something and all this stuff, and you know, it does seem more common in that community, so, whatever. [...]

[Yiannopoulos:] You're wrong in the first place to trust the media on anything, because very very few journalists tell the truth about anything whats so ever. So I don't know who the journalists you trust are, but the journalists I trust I can count on one hand. [...] The media lies to you, the majority of journalists of these days are interested in narrative over fact. The media, and I really believe, and this what I have in common with Andrew Breitbart, I genuinely believe the media is the problem and the is root of most of the evil in our popular culture. [...] One of the reasons that why I'm successful, is that I try to do the opposite and I try to tell the truth at least as I see it, and I try to fact based. What people like about me is that I work from studies and not from emotions and not from, you know, feelings and personal experience. I try to stay with data and facts, and most people find that refreshing. And I also try, you know, I always in my career looked for places where people have been lied about, or where there is an underserved, you know, quiet majority who need somebody to stand up for them, who need a champion, where the powerful elites are lying about. I always thought that the purpose of journalism was to speak truth to power, was to stick it up for the voiceless, I believe that I did that in Gamergate.

source: Transcript from video < DP #193 | MILO YIANNOPOULOS ON DP! - THE SITUATION! > www.youtube.com/watch?v=azC1nm85btY&t=3515; YouTube; Streamed live on: 4 January 2016