Disgusting News about Mitterand - Are we really civilized after all?

I just read disgusting news on one of the abolitionist sites I follow. France's now culture minister Mitterand published a book a few years back. Only now is he getting heat for it.

Here are some quotes from his aptly titled 2005 book The Bad Life,
"I got into the habit of paying for boys, [despite knowing] the sordid details of this traffic. ... All these rituals of the market for youths, the slave market excited me enormously... the abundance of very attractive and immediately available young boys put me in a state of desire."

Say what? Mitterand not only openly admits (or boasts) that he had sex with boys in Thailand, but he was "excited" and "put...in a state of desire" by the fact that these were slave children? It did not bother him that he was so abusing other human beings, and vulnerable children at that?

Disgusting. Utterly, abjectly disgusting. Are we really civilized after all? Have we really become so depraved that our leaders can be excited and put into a state of desire by the availability of sex with slave children?

Why is such a man still in any position of leadership in France? Shameful. Digusting. Revolting.
God help us.