Carol Sarler

The shameful truth is that we love our sex crimes

Carol Sarler says that the enquiry into Catholic child abuse made the headlines because of a pervasive hypocrisy: a fixation on sex that lets us be both prurient and puritanical

issue 30 May 2009
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