It has frequently been pointed out that
attitudes to sexuality were different in the 1960s and 1970s: and this
has been especially stressed when personalities from the past - like the
late British prime minister Edward Heath - are retrospectively
suspected of sexual abuse.
Attitudes certainly were once very different: an individual's sexual conduct was generally considered to be something private - unless it emerged in a sensational divorce case, or a major sex scandal like the Profumo affair.
Attitudes certainly were once very different: an individual's sexual conduct was generally considered to be something private - unless it emerged in a sensational divorce case, or a major sex scandal like the Profumo affair.