Stupid prosecution of the week
I couldn’t believe it - for all sorts of reasons - when I read this story on the BBC website. A Scottish man has been put on probation, and placed on the Sex Offenders Register, for having sex with his bicycle.
Quite how you have sex with a bike I’m not too sure, and even if you explain it to me I’m not sure I really want to know, but that’s between him and his Raleigh. What worries me about this case is that the man has been placed on the Sex Offenders Register (the same Register that all the convicted rapists, paedophiles, etc get put on) because he was “caught in the act” by two cleaning staff at the hostel where he was staying. The reason why this worries me is because he was behind a closed, locked door on his own with an inanimate object. He was not involving anyone else in his recreation, no animals, children or other adults were being harmed in any way, yet he has still been tarred with the same brush as people like Ian Huntley.
If the genders had been reversed and two male cleaners had walked into a room where a woman had been “entertaining” herself with some inanimate object, would this case have even been reported? I’m not so sure.

