All part of the problem.
The media. The English media has been prurient for God knows how long.
It's all about power and control.
Check out that incredibly cynical sports page
More revelations in tomorrow's papers.
youth sex abuse
wonderkid footballer
brave England teenage cricketer
A complete absence of tact. I wonder how the two lads (particularly the scouse striker) feel about sharing the page with that story.
One for the family scrapbook.
Get the scissors son.
Oscar Wilde -- a long time ago. For Press and journalism read media
In old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press. That is an improvement certainly. But still it is very bad, and wrong, and demoralizing. Somebody — was it Burke? — called journalism the fourth estate. That was true at the time no doubt. But at the present moment it is the only estate. It has eaten up the other three. The Lords Temporal say nothing, the Lords Spiritual have nothing to say, and the House of Commons has nothing to say and says it. We are dominated by Journalism.
Most of the page 3 girls were barely out of school but it was OK...... wasn't it? BBC TOTP OK... wasn't it?
This isn't to say that it never existed before, see ancient Greece, but mass entertainment has democratised it and we are only just beginning to take account. What about 'droit de seigneur' as an example of exercising power through sexual abuse. I'm sure they always waited until they were legal. And I'm sure they never touched the sons.
Active paedophilia is an assertion of power because it's rape. There is no grey area in this kind of rape.
We have to look at how we get along with power. Are we powerless? Or do we have a voice? Do we allow the pursuit of paediatricians by the ignorant? Or do we take away their page 3 models?
What do you say Rupert, Piers, Conrad, Barclays and all the rest, Government?