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Originally Posted by pantoandy
cheers spot
anything to say on this one ? you usually comment on my rants.
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It's a huge question. The "sex in public which is currently a criminal offence under the indecency act" bit. I've not read the "indecency act" whatever that is. "it is not for the police to take the role of moral arbiter and where individuals are engaged in lawful sexual activity they should be able to do so safely" is a non-contentious truism whoever said it, I can't imagine why the sentence exists since it has nothing to do with the article.
"they have a police chief in charge of gay lesbian and transgender issues" because for at least thirty years the police had a duty to prosecute gay and lesbian behaviour. The ideal police officer enforces every law impartially but for those thirty years Plod got it into his piggy little mind that it was a fun law to enforce, that it was a moral law, that he was doing God's Holy Work and by Christ he enjoyed it. Then the law was removed from the statute book. Of course there's a police chief in charge of gay lesbian and transgender issues, there's a lot of coppers out there with damaged psyches who want nothing better than to persecute gays lesbians and transgendered folk just like their old sarge did when Britain still had an empire.
Dogging has nothing whatever to do with any of that, dogging is invariably an expression of heterosexual exhibitionism.
The moderator who merged your thread with an existing one on the same news item left a redirect in bizarre news stories, whatever that means. It implies, I think, that users are expected to chase down moderator "housekeeping" without any notice or warning and that clues of their actions will be scant. Words are being exchanged, such matters will be handled more noisily in future, nobody will be left uninformed. The skin of the moderator responsible in this instance will end up binding the next edition of "How To Moderate".
The nearest I can guess to an "Indecency Act" is the
Sexual Offences Act 2003 which carries the following sections:
66. Exposure
67. Voyeurism
68. Voyeurism: interpretation
69. Intercourse with an animal
70. Sexual penetration of a corpse
71. Sexual activity in a public lavatory
Section 71 relates only to partnered conduct, single-handed exertions are excluded.
The Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) spokesman on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues said officers should avoid a "knee jerk" reaction to outdoor sex? Go on, that has to be a wind-up.