Editing Simone de Beauvoir (section)

==== Allegations of sexual abuse ====
Beauvoir was [[Bisexuality|bisexual]], and her relationships with young women were controversial.<ref name="Lise1">{{cite book |author=Rodgers |title=Philosophers Behaving Badly |author2=Thompson |publisher=London: [[Peter Owen Publishers]] |year=2004 |isbn=072061368X |pages=186–187 |author-link1=Nigel Rodgers |author-link2=Mel Thompson (writer)}}</ref> French author [[Bianca Lamblin]] (originally Bianca Bienenfeld) wrote in her book ''Mémoires d'une jeune fille dérangée'' (Memoirs of a deranged girl, published in English under the title ''A Disgraceful Affair'') that, while a student at Lycée Molière, she was sexually exploited by her teacher Beauvoir, who was in her 30s.<ref>''Mémoires d'une jeune fille dérangée'' (1994, LGF – Livre de Poche; {{ISBN|978-2-253-13593-7}}/2006, Balland; {{ISBN|978-2-7158-0994-9}}).</ref> Sartre and Beauvoir both groomed and sexually abused Lamblin.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Riding |first1=Alan |date=14 April 1996 |title=The Odd Couple |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/14/books/the-odd-couple.html |access-date=9 November 2021 |website=New York Times |quote=Beauvoir duly seduced her and, the following year, introduced her to Sartre, then 33, who also took her to bed. By 1939, now studying under Sartre at the Sorbonne, Bianca was convinced that she was the key figure in an idealized love triangle.}}</ref> Bianca wrote her ''Mémoires'' in response to the posthumous 1990 publication of Jean-Paul Sartre's ''Lettres au Castor et à quelques autres: 1926-1963'' (Letters to Castor and other friends), in which she noted that she was referred to by the pseudonym Louise Védrine.<ref>{{Cite news |date=14 July 2023 |title=Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir: Bianca, leur jouet sexuel |language=fr |trans-title=Sartre, Beauvoir: Bianca, their sexual toy |work=[[Gala (magazine)|Gala]] |url=https://www.gala.fr/l_actu/news_de_stars/jean-paul-sartresimonedebeauvoirbiancaleurjouetsexuel_346146 |access-date=1 August 2023}}</ref>

In 1943, Beauvoir was suspended again from her teaching position when she was accused of seducing her 17-year-old lycée pupil [[Natalie Sorokin]]e in 1939.<ref>''Tête-à-tête: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre'', Hazel Rowley, HarperCollins, 2005, pp. 130–135, {{ISBN|0-06-052059-0}}; {{ISBN|978-0-06-052059-5}}.</ref> Sorokine's parents laid formal charges against Beauvoir for debauching a minor (the age of consent in France at the time was 13 until 1945, when it became 15)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Légifrance - Publications officielles - Journal officiel - JORF n° 0155 du 03/07/1945 (accès protégé) |trans-title=Official publications - Official gazette (secure access) |url=https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/download/securePrint?token=82FDKZHeL@XiHAyZj@$ |access-date=29 July 2023 |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Age(s) of Consent: Gay Activism and the Sexuality of Minors in France and Quebec (1970-1980) |url=https://www.cairn-int.info/load_pdf.php?ID_ARTICLE=E_CLIO1_042_0099&download=1 |access-date=29 July 2023}}</ref> and Beauvoir's licence to teach in France was revoked, although it was subsequently reinstated.<ref>''Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky'', Paul Johnson, Harper Perennial, 1988, pp. 238–38, {{ISBN|978-0-06-125317-1}}.</ref>

Beauvoir described in ''La Force de l'âge'' (''The Prime of Life'') a relationship of simple friendship with Nathalie Sorokine<ref>{{Cite book |last=de Beauvoir |first=Simone |title=La Force de l'âge |publisher=Gallimard |location=Paris |page=617 |language=fr |trans-title=The Prime of Life}}</ref> (in the book referred to as "Lise Oblanoff").<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Evans |first=Christine Anne |date=10 September 1995 |title="La Charmante Vermine": Simone de Beauvoir and the Women in Her Life |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/45186669 |journal=Simone de Beauvoir Studies |language=en |volume=12 |pages=26–32 |doi=10.1163/25897616-01201006 |jstor=45186669 |access-date=29 August 2023}}</ref> Sorokine, along with Bianca Lamblin and [[Olga Kosakiewicz]], later stated that their relationships with Beauvoir damaged them psychologically.<ref name="Lise1" />