Hate to say it, but Foucault was not alone. Tunisia was a destination for child prostitution in the 19th and 20th centuries. You can read about the history of the eroticization of Arab boys in Joseph Allen Boone's work or in my recent book Unspeakable.
thetimes.co.uk/article/french…
thetimes.co.uk/article/french…
Norman Douglas, subject of my new book, wrote all about his travels in Tunisia and the beauty of the naked boys who jumped into the Baths of Gafsa in his 1912 book "Fountains in the Sand." 
The famous pederastic photographer Wilhelm von Gloeden - whose pictures were collected by John Addington Symonds and Oscar Wilde - traveled to Tunisia in 1901 to take pictures of the boys there.
The Spartacus Gay Guide in 1978 - a decade after Foucault - gave readers advice on how to treat boys in Tunisia
historyofknowledge.net/2017/04/10/tra…
historyofknowledge.net/2017/04/10/tra…
Harry and Caresse Crosby, celebrities of the Lost Generation or Jazz Aage (she invented the bra!) had sex with an 11-year old girl in Tunisia
Go ahead and call out Foucault, but he wasn't alone - this isn't evidence of his unique monstrosity, but of a widespread culture of child prostitution that many admired folks once openly participated in. If you want to know more, here's a link to my book amazon.com/Unspeakable-Li…
I’ll be talking about the book - and the way we talk about this history - this morning, at 11:30 ET, in a keynote for the University of Montreal’s Silences and Scandals conference (in English) - open to all tinyurl.com/4tbsya7n
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