The picture that accompanies this article is deliberately provocative in the hope that it will encourage the open-minded and intelligent reader to think for themselves rather than swallow the misinformation and media-fuelled hysteria that surrounds this thorny topic!

Author's note: In a previous article I discussed the subject of paedophilia and suggested that it might be our own warped attitudes to sex and nudity that are to blame for child sex abuse. Now I would like explore those attitudes further to try to discover how this dire state of affairs came about