, a charge he strenuously denies. The charge arises from a video clip in which he said that sexual relationships between 13-year-old boys and adult men and women can be "perfectly consensual" and positive experiences for the boys.
. Yiannopoulos has denied that he is a supporter of such relationships, and claimed that his statements were an attempt to cope with his own past victimhood, as an object of
by unnamed older men. His critics, in claiming that he is a supporter of child sexual abuse, also invoke a second video, in which he stated that it "really is not that big of a deal" and called its victims "selfish brats" for going public and identifying their accusers years after they were abused.