Editing Chris Denning (section)

==Early life==
Christopher David Denning was born in [[Hayes, Middlesex|Hayes]], [[Middlesex]] on 10 May 1941.<ref>{{cite news| url= http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/local-news/former-radio-1-dj-fails-4838839| title= Former Radio 1 DJ fails to get his sentence cut| website= getsurrey.co.uk| date= July 27, 2006| edition= July 2, 2013| publisher= | access-date= October 9, 2023| archive-date= 22 May 2014| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140522195603/http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/local-news/former-radio-1-dj-fails-4838839| url-status= live}}</ref><ref name="Pitkin" /> He grew up in [[Cowley, Oxfordshire|Cowley]], [[Oxford]], the only child of middle-class parents.<ref name="Connolly">{{cite news|last=Connolly|first=Kate|url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/1999/may/04/features11.g23|title=All Played Out|work=The Guardian|date=4 May 1999|access-date=8 October 2016|archive-date=5 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305022342/http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/1999/may/04/features11.g23|url-status=live}}</ref> He has said that he was a [[rent boy]] from [[prostitution of children|the age of 13]]<ref name="Pitkin">{{cite web
|url=http://www.praguepost.com/archivescontent/34384-denning-going-against-social-norms.html
|title=Denning: Going against social norms
|first=James
|last=Pitkin
|date=19 December 2001
|publisher=[[The Prague Post]]
|url-status=dead
|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130910203650/http://www.praguepost.com/archivescontent/34384-denning-going-against-social-norms.html
|archive-date=10 September 2013}}</ref> and remained so until the age of 18.<ref name="Connolly"/>