Tuesday 22 May 2018

Down Under

The conviction of Archbishop Philip Wilson was gleefully reported by the Today programme. But what would have been the BBC's attitude to sex with a 15-year-old in 1976? 

Even today, the only person who could be so much as charged with sex with a 15-year-old girl, never mind convicted of it, would be a professional footballer, and even then only one from the "wrong" club.

And even today, the only person who could be so much as charged with sex with a 15-year-old boy, never mind convicted of it, would be a Catholic priest.

Meanwhile, in all other circumstances, the media depict such activity as normal, natural and healthy. One really does have to wonder why.

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