Good news for women in England today, as well as for those into sacred sexuality! A woman is allowed to have sex in the grounds of an English Cathedral – this is the ruling of a court in Cambridgeshire.
There is one fly in the ointment though – a man will still be prosecuted for it.
In a news report today, a couple were found having sex in the grounds of Ely Cathedral. They were caught and arrested by the police – but only the man was prosecuted at the local magistrate’s court. He was convicted and fined £130, but more seriously he presumably will now be registered as a sex-offender. The woman however was not prosecuted at all!
Now I could say that it would be good to see more women exploiting their new found privileges and perhaps test to see how far the law goes – but that would obviously be crass and out of place. Instead I find it a happy day that, two thousand years after the blatantly hypocritical predicament of the Woman Taken In Adultery, we have now reversed the position so that it is the man who gets a public stoning instead. Hooray for the end of the outrageous sexism that characterised the Piscean Age! 😉
I’m not sure how sex offenders are treated across the pond, but if it’s anything like it is in the ‘States I hope he gets off with just the fine. A slap on the wrist for getting carried away is one thing, but being permanently listed in a public registry for every future potential neighbor and employer to see is far too harsh a punishment for a conviction based “on the way they were moving” (ie, nobody really saw anything).