Indecent Assault

Structured as a collection of diary entries, Indecent Assault gives Moody's reflections during the proceedings of a legal case brought against him, which alleged 4 counts of sexual touching (known legally as "indecent/sexual assault") and 1 count of attempted anal sex ("attempted buggery") with a 10-year-old male. Moody was acquitted of these charges in April 1979, and continued to publish on and participate in a wide variety of political movements. The book received positive endorsements from the Body Politic (Canada), Gay News, Chris Stretch (in The Leveller), Jonathan Walters (in Peace News), PAN (the Netherlands), and the Gay's the World Newsletter. Jeffrey Weeks said it "reads very powerfully"... Roger Moody (Born circa. 1940 - Died June, 2022) was a British socialist and civil libertarian author, social worker, political theorist and activist for various left-wing causes. These causes included labor/worker's rights, the rights of indigenous peoples and mining communities, nuclear disarmament and an opposition to war, and the right of what he saw as mutually willing sexual expression for sexual minorities, including between legal adults and young people. Moody was an "out"/open pedophile during the 1970s, with the term being an obscure psychiatric category at the time. Moody briefly became the co-editor of the longstanding pacifist magazine Peace News (1936-present), and published this short book through Word is Out/Peace News in 1980.