says the Court of Appeal in Regina vs Edwards - substituting the suspended 12 months for 12 months in prison where a 39 year old woman had a sexual relationship with a 14 year old boy.

Entirely consensual.

My sentence of 7 years was for a crime that never took place in 1983 when I was 38 with a boy who claimed he was 14 and came back again and again to visit me for what he described as very consensual sex.

This (my) victim's gender seems to me to have been very relevant indeed to the homophobic Court system.

odd isn't it ?

the woman's age and gender would have been entirely irelevant in Italy, Germany or Spain ,amongst others, and no trial would have ever taken place. A few wagging tongues perhaps but little interest shown othewise.

I doubt these countries are on a greater moral decline than GB (perhaps even less)!

I think it depends on judges.

There is a massive variation in sentencing for those found guilty - which are about 5 in every 100 cases that go to court.

You see with Lord Ahmed as well that someone who kills someone gets a lesser sentence than some sad anorak who looks at illegal dirty photos who might end up with a year in prison compared to Lord Ahmed's 16 days.

We dont value life and freedom much. "Sex" is glorified so much that it has become a national obsession.

This article is truly frightening in the sense that 8 year olds are now porn addicts and girls from the age of 11 are posing naked on their webcams.........www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11627...et-chill-parent.html

On BBC last night there was the story about 18 teenage schoolgirls who all got pregnant at the same time in one school in the USA.......

There is a moral decline and the USA and UK are at the forefront as far as I can see. At least in the USA they are upholding the law and prosecuting anyone SEXTING !!! ( the new term for sending porn to each other )

The World has gone mad.