Bend Over Jessica

Last week, after going to the gym, I was listening to the big interview on the Today programme, the one at 8.10am where it goes on for ten minutes and it’s always a bigwig being interviewed.

In the wake of the John Terry scandal, the debate was about should private business stay private or if you were a public figure, did the public have the right to know. Rather naturally, the big interview was John Humphries* talking to Max Mosley. Mosley, as you will remember, took the News of The World to court and won when they invaded his privacy by filming and publishing details of his private BDSM session with five young ladies.

Mosley has been a standard-carrier for those on the scene and I often think, that given that people like us are often treated as the homosexuals of the sixties in the press, that he is not only brave but an intelligent and amusing advocate for us all, who is dignified and yet unrepentant about his tastes. I thought he gave a really good interview despite John Humphries needling him (although you could tell from the tone of Humphries’s voice that he agreed with Mosley). But the bit I really admired was this. John Humphries asked him, if in the light of everything that had come to pass; he regretted indulging in S&M.

“No. No, I don’t actually.” said Mosley.

At that point (I was naked at the time, combing my wet hair), I punched the air and capered about the bedroom. When was the last time you heard a public figure tell you, live on air, that he didn’t regret a thing? When did you last hear such an honest response from anyone who’s been caught indulging themselves in private? Not from any of the so-called moral arbiters of our society, such as the press, politicians, sporting or religious figures.

Like I said – gotta love that man!

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*Who incidentally, I really fancy.