Can you see Oscar Wilde on a Gay Pride march? In Wilde's time public morals were different, and while I don't know what age Lord Alfred Douglas was, I don't think he was young enough for the label paedophile to be applied to Oscar. It does however seem odd to me that sexual crimes where force is used like heterosexual rape, often attract a lighter sentence than crimes like Jonathan King's where coercion is used and not violence. Not that I'm excusing either, I just find the publics' movable moral values amusing, as their point of view about a crime is conditioned by their view of the person committing it. The fact that the more well off amongst them can hire high profile lawyers and PR men, and get off with crimes that you or I would go to jail for doesn't help either.
Giok