VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Matt Westwood|DATE|1359188532|CONTENT|&quot;Two underage people who kiss each other can both be charged ...&quot;

WHAT? That&#039;s OUTRAGEOUS!

A significant proportion of the teenage leisure time of myself and most of my peers (as I say, back in the 1970&#039;s) was spent snogging. It was a pastime, a hobby, a growing-up ritual, an accepted rite of passage - we did it all the time, in full view of the world, with no shame attached, and more-or-less tolerance from adults (as long as one of said adults was not a parent). It was so ingrained in the culture of the time that it was even sent up in a carry-on film (can&#039;t remember which one now).

The current puritan nature of society is disheartening to me - the more you try and restrict the behaviour of others on purely &quot;moral&quot; grounds (i.e. &quot;I don&#039;t like it so you shouldn&#039;t do it&quot;) the more you push it underground and [i]make[/i] it more &quot;dangerous&quot;.|EMAIL|prime.mover@proofwiki.org|IP-ADDRESS|176.27.245.30|MODERATIONFLAG|