Yet, thanks to OTT remarks like Dame Helen’s, doing what comes naturally is becoming a minefield. There were reports this week of a 13-year-old boy in Baltimore who was arrested by police for kissing a 14-year-old girl at school against her will. The so-called Pikesville Kiss has become a cause célèbre because the kisser now faces a second-degree assault charge. Blimey. If all the boys who played kiss chase at my school had been arrested, there wouldn’t have been an empty jail cell in south Wales. (And the girls were even worse…)