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Originally Posted by xyz4562
following the very public porn problems of the hubby of the home secretary it was suggested in a national paper that all men should own up to the fact that they use porn as every man does it!
my wife knows i do and joins in from time to time!
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This is an excellent suggestion. The fatal flaw is that is requires all of us and all of society to be up front about our sexual natures. That will never happen. Every single one of us has a line in the sand dividing what is OK from what isn't OK. There will be a lot of consensus on some areas: for example the VEF rules ban the uploading of bestiality, images of under 18s in sexual poses. Other fetishes will be in the grey zone where some of us are fine with it and some of us are not. There will never be a universal standard on this one.
As for Jacqui Smith, she holds a highly relevent public office. What has been her influence on the regulation of pornography and of the sex industry in general? If she has made public statements about the need to clamp down on all this depravity, then she and her husband should be hung up for the crows to eat. If on the other hand her approach has been to argue for balanced, responsible and low key regulation, then there is nothing hypocritical about her and her husband enjoying the odd adult movie (how odd were the movies by the way?!).
If the latter is true, her crime was the lesser one of making a minor false claim on her expenses, which she herself rectified without being pulled up by someone else. Not very clever, and it suggests that she tries to claim expenses for everything that moves without reflecting properly on what really is business and what simply isn't. For this, rather than for enjoying adult movies, she should be hauled over the coals.
But it is clear that she was maliciously leaked against by a civil servant (whose wages we pay) who used her and her husbands' liking for adult movies in order to damage her public image. This was a really cheap and shoddy piece of backstabbing. Worse, it was a political act by a person whose job demands that he/she shows no political bias. I say find this person and hang him/her up to dry.
I don't like Jacqui Smith at all, but on this one specific incident she has my sympathy. If we were all honest about our appetite for pornography, Ms Smith could never have been pilloried in this particular way, but we aren't and that's that.
Meanwhile, as a token attempt to get back on point, the moral of Ms Smiths' story is that if those around you are not liberal in their attititude to porn, then you have to be discreet. Don't have it itemised on your expenses! Don't leave the magazines on your coffee table! Don't have an icon on your desktop labelled ''Purvey Filth'' with a picture of Miss Whiplash! Until porn utopia arrives, we must continue to cover our tracks.