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Wilhelmus received an upbringing based on radical left principles.[4] He was a teacher and started his career by publishing Provo-like journals. [5][6] Wilhelmus advocated complete sexual freedom, and became a well-known advocate of free sexual morality. [7][2][8] Together with Peter Johannes Muller (of Candy magazine), Wilhelmus broke the taboo of sexuality in the Netherlands.[7] Wilhelmus also aggressively attacked women's shelters for abused women, and published the confidential addresses of these shelters.[9] Wilhelmus started sex shops and a 'stimulus society' in a cellar in Utrecht that allowed couples to engage in partner swapping.[6][3] Wilhelmus was married and had four children; three daughters and one son. [3][10][11] Wilhelmus' wife shared his philosophy regarding adult and child sexuality.[12]
Chick, self-styled "sex magazine for the worker",[13] was an explicit sex journal that started in 1968.[6] Chick was founded by Wilhelmus, its editor-in-chief, and Jan Wenderhold, its sales manager.[4] It also published dating personals that were about sex and not about love.[5] Chick's initial print run of 5,000 rose to 18,000 by the second half of 1968,[6] and according to Wilhelmus, the magazine's circulation was 140,000 in 1971.[3] In the seventies, Wilhelmus argued in Chick that sex with children was part of the sexual liberation.[14] In 1970, the publication of Chick resulted in the Dutch "Chick-arrest" by the Supreme Court of the Netherlands, which in turn led to the new Dutch moral law of 1971 that no longer criminally sanctioned pornography.[15] After a conflict between founders Wilhelmus and Wenderhold, two versions of Chick co-existed, Chick/Dordrecht and Chick/Amsterdam,[4] until Wenderhold eventually bought the Dordrecht version.
Wilhelmus was also the founder and publisher of child pornography magazine Lolita.[16][17][18][19] Lolita was first published circa 1970. Besides pornography it also featured a contact service for its readers through classified ads.[20][16] Wilhelmus encouraged readers to provide new child pornography images so as to ensure his magazine's survival.[21][16] A gift magazine was given in exchange for each new child photograph,[20] and the sum of $350 was offered in the magazine if Wilhelmus could take the photographs himself.[16] While Wilhelmus was arrested for publishing Lolita in January 1971, he was released immediately after the interrogation,[17] and was never prosecuted for publishing the magazine.[17] In 1973, he gave a lecture at a Roman Catholic training institute for working girls in Rotterdam, at the invitation of the school board,[22] and Lex van Naerssen of Utrecht University invited Wilhelmus as a visiting scholar, which led to parliamentary questions in the Dutch House of Representatives.[23] In June 1975, Wilhelmus partook in a TV broadcast of the NCRV-program Hier en Nu, where he explained how normal sex with children was to him.[24] In 1986, the PSI subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs called Lolita "the most notorious of the foreign commercial child pornography publications".[20] The magazine reached issue 55 in 1984,[20][25] and was eventually closed down by Dutch authorities in 1987,[19][16] seventeen years after its conception.[25] According to Wilhelmus, at the peak of its popularity, Lolita's circulation was 25,000.[26] Lolita became an almost universal brand name for child pornography.[25][16] In an interview with the VPRO, Dik Brummel of the NVSH declared that he had bought some issues of Lolita and considered them to be "historical documents".[27]
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