So another media staris accused of using their celebrity and power to have sex with much younger girls. I am not a paragon of virtue, and yes I did have sex with girls in late teens and early twenties, but even then I would not have sex with a girl under age; and yes it was offered, and to my shame I refused and then dumped her cruelly. The is a difference between sex with consenting adults, the first fumblings between teenagers and early twenties of similar age, and the exploitation of vulnerable young girls by older men. We have debated the strangeness of girls reporting misdeeds 20 or so years later, but a crime is still a crime, and if bringing it up now makes men think twice before exploiting their apparant power. And as the PM has said, we must avoid victim blaming, and the press must avoid paying for false claims – the present claims to be well resourced for authenticity, but we have seen the lengths the gutter press will go to, to get salacious stories (phone tapping). Is there too much pornography and not enough love in society?
