RIP John Peel

[Local Authority]

Just because someone is under the age of consent doesn't mean they can't consent.

I'm not defending any of these people's actions btw, I find anything sexually predatory repugnant and reprehensible. But age is no defining indicator of sexual maturity.

 

[woops]

apologies for turning the Peel thread into a thread about Thai prostitution.

'It's what he would have wanted'

 

[SecondLine]

Just because someone is under the age of consent doesn't mean they can't consent.

well the legal line here is obviously that, if you're under the designated age of consent, you are legally incapable of consenting.

In reality of course there are shades of grey beyond the shouty Mail headlines - some things are self-evidently worse than others. But acknowledging that is different from absolving Peel of guilt because we reckon he was generally a good egg.