Dirty Dishes	Dirty Dishes Archive

Seventy-four-year-old D. Carleton Gajdusek spent much of the 1960s studying the social and sexual practices of various South Pacific islanders. He won the Nobel Prize in 1976 for his work on "slow viruses," the kind implicated in AIDS and mad cow disease. In 1996 he was charged by Frederick County (Maryland) cops with child "abuse" (i.e., sex) and "perverted practices" (i.e., gay sex). Seems FBI dirt leaned on a lad whom D.C. had housed, fed, clothed, and educated in order to get the "victim" to fink on his affectionate adoptive grampa.

View our poll archive

The local Frederick County rag noted that Gajdusek had published "observations about child sex that run counter to Western attitudes," citing this passage in his 1961 journals: "I would, at this moment, have very youth sleep with his sister, get seduced by his brother and older male teacher, practice with his male and female cousins, aunts, uncles and teacher and maid-- anything!-- only to know sex as fun and frivolity, as rhythm and passionate play-- from an early age-- from the very onset of puberty." Of course, such common sense is officially seditious in Canada and, as history proves, guarantees severe legal harassment in the US; in both jurisdictions, non-adult sex is-- legally-- never fun, always "rape."

Well, Dawn is happy to report that the fun-loving laureate is out of the slammer. Let us hope that he lives to see the day his attitudes are vindicated and pee-pee touching is returned to the realm of child's play instead of the cause for FBI dragnets....