In defence of the threesome .....

Here at Stroppyblog we defend the right to for people to do what they damm well please in the bedroom, as long as its between consenting adults. So it is with interest that I note the Sheridan court case against the News of the World. Today there are discussions about a stag night and threesomes :


"Earlier the trial at the Court of Session in Edinburgh heard an account of an alleged three-in-a-bed session involving Mr Sheridan, a footballer and a prostitute from Birmingham"

Other accounts have talked of spanking, red pvc gloves and champagne.

If we were to nose around in the sex lives of those on the left I expect they would not all be of the vanilla or mundane variety. Many I am sure have got up to, and still do, all sorts. And that should not be a problem. Life is to short to worry about being 'good'.

When there was all the fuss about Oaten I did not care what he paid a rent boy to do. What bearing does that have on his ability to be an MP.

What I do have a problem with is hypocrisy . Oaten paraded his wife and children and played the family card whilst leading a secret life. Simon Hughes gained from the homophobia directed at Tatchell to gain his seat as an MP. It seems Sheridan is guilty of playing the happy family man card as well. If the stories are true then that makes him a hypocrite.

Why does engaging in certain sexual practices become a liability in politics. Its only that if we continue to hold up the heterosexual family as the ideal that MPs must aspire to. I don't want a world where people snigger at what someone does in bed or people live double lives, often hurting partners in the process. Shouldn't socialism embrace a more libertarian attitude to sexuality. Perhaps then people would be more honest and less deceitful.

I am much more concerned with someone's politics when it comes to women/LGBT and equality issues. That is what I would judge Sheridan and any other politician on.

As an aside I expect the champagne drinking upset as much as the sexual goings on in some quarters of the left. Personally under socialism I would be happy to see affordable champagne, in decadent hotel rooms , available for all.