Théophile de Giraud

Giraud's first book, The Impertinence of Procreation, was published in 2000. It argues against human reproduction and uses humour and provocation.^[2] He was described in Le Carnet et les Instants as noted for eccentricities,^[3] and was listed in André Blavier's anthology Les Fous Littéraires.^[4]

Giraud's essay The Art of Guillotining the Procreators: Anti-Natalist Manifesto, published in 2006, is a revised version of his first book.^[5] Its central phrase is "If you love children, don't create them".^[6] In the work, Giraud argues that life is marked by suffering^[7] and that ethics is incompatible with reproduction.^[8][9] He also argues for school training for parenthood, adoption, and a procreation strike against reproduction imposed by patriarchy.^[7][8] The book cites classical authors in support of its arguments.^[10]

In 2008, Giraud published a poetic essay on cold wave, Cold Love, Satanic Sex and Funny Suicide, with a preface by Jean-Luc De Meyer, singer of Front 242.^[11] The work uses song excerpts to discuss themes in cold wave and the origins of the Gothic movement, including sex, death, family, the end of the world, and human extinction.^[11] A review in PPPZine described its style as humorous and inventive.^[12]

Giraud also contributed to the collective book Fewer, More Happy: The Urgency to Rethink Demography, edited by Michel Sourrouille.^[13]

Giraud is associated with the antinatalism and childfree movements.^[14] He was one of the creators of Non-Parents Day, which was held between 2009 and 2011 in Brussels and Paris.^[15] In 2008, he covered a statue of Leopold II in Brussels with red paint to protest against public commemoration of the king and his role in the colonial system of the Belgian Congo.^[16] In 2012, he organised a "denatalist" event in Paris about overpopulation and refusal to give birth for ecological reasons.^[17][18]

• Winner of the Belgian Vocation Foundation (1998)^[2]
• Childfree Man of the Year (2013)^[19]

• The Impertinence of Procreation, Brussels, self-published, 2000
• One Hundred Necromantic Haikus, preface by Jean-Pierre Verheggen, foreword and afterword by André Stas, Spa, ed. Galopin, 2004 (ISBN 9782916086071)
• The Art of Guillotining Procreators: An Anti-natalist Manifesto, Nancy, ed. Le Mort-Qui-Trompe, 2006 (ISBN 978-2916502007)
• Diogenesis, Fluorescent Poems to Wait Between Two Genocides, Brussels, ed. Maelström, 2008 (ISBN 978-2-9303-5587-0)
• Cold Love, Satanic Sex and Funny Suicide, preface by Jean-Luc De Meyer, Nancy, ed. Le Mort-Qui-Trompe, 2008 (ISBN 9782916502076)
• Aphorisms for the Use of Future Familicides, preface by Corinne Maier, foreword by Serge Poliart, Brussels, ed. Maelström, 2013 (ISBN 2-9165-0200-9)
• The Childfree Christ: Antinatalism in Early Christianity, ed. AFNIL, 2021 (ISBN 978-2960273700)

• David Benatar
• Atrocities in the Congo Free State
• Voluntary Human Extinction Movement