Krumme 13

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K13's leader: Dieter Gieseking

The Krumme 13 (translated as "Crooked 13"; also known as the K13) was a German organization of pedophile activists.

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Founded in 1993 as a self-help group, the Krumme 13 mainly pushed for the legalization of adult-child sex. It dissolved in January 2003 under mounting public pressure. Specifically, the Krumme 13 demanded that §184 of the German penal code, which criminalizes child pornography, be abolished and §176 (outlawing sexual contacts with children, i.e. persons under the age of 14) and §182 (restricting sexual contacts of adults and persons under 16 years of age) at least be eased.

K13 also published a pedophile activist magazine, Zeitschrift zur Emanzipation der Pädophilie, until 1996.

K13 also maintained a bookshop and a program to counsel prisoners convicted of child sexual abuse.[1][2] According to AG Pädo[3] and Ipce[4][5], two other pedophile emancipation groups, the group's then-jailed leader was regarded as untrustworthy among the pedophile community, and the group itself as detrimental to the pedophile movement.

The group stirred up massive press coverage from 2001 on, after the group filed for legal recognition as a charitable society in Trier.^[1]

Press coverage mounted after two members of K13 were arrested for an allegedly autobiographical, sexually-explicit story posted on their website, krumme13.org, detailing a relationship between an eleven-year-old boy and a thirty-year-old man.^[2] In September 2005, the appellate court decided that the work did not constitute child pornography but a love story.^[3]

After the closing of the group, the group's leader, Dieter Gieseking, has continued to maintain krumme13.org as a journalistic platform named K13-online.