Once it was ‘the casting couch’ for ‘starlets’. Then it was the solicitor’s
sofa. Now it’s the bunk in the barracks.
But the trouble with “training for how to say no to your superiors”
(Inquiry into army recruit sex, July 26), is that school sex
‘education’ has given girls no reason to say no, except “I don’t feel like it”. Well, come on girls, don't be spoilsports!
But there is a reason to say no, quite apart from condoms failing and
girls getting pregnant (because of course, no worries, they can get an abortion).
Pope Paul VI’s famously ridiculed encyclical Humanae Vitae
proscribed sex outside marriage, and contraceptives, as offending against
God’s beautiful design of love for the human race. Humanae Vitae, 50
years old this week, is not only profound but prophetic: Paul VI predicted that
men would lose respect for women and would come to consider them as mere
instruments of selfish enjoyment.
But it was beyond the papal power of prophecy to imagine solicitors and
army officers abusing their position of trust.
Not to mention priests.
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