Voyeur News: Man Boobs Are Not Sexual
IT is legal to ogle a man’s breasts bit not woman’s judges rule:
Care worker Kevin Bassett, 44, was found guilty last year after using a video camera hidden in a plastic bag to take shots of a swimmer.
Yesterday, his conviction was quashed at the Court of Appeal after Lord Justice Hughes, Mr Justice Treacy and Sir Paul Cresswell ruled that a man’s bare torso did not count as ‘private parts’.
The 2003 Sexual Offences Act specifies that “private parts” must be exposed for voyeurism to have taken place. Only women, it seems, have breasts that can be seen in a sexual light.
Lord Justice Hughes explained: “The intention of Parliament was to mean female breasts and not an exposed male chest.
“The former are still private amongst 21st century bathers, the second is not.”
Says Mr Bassett: “It has made me ill over the years. I want to be like everyone else.”
Posted: 16th, May 2008 | In: Strange But True, Tabloids Comment (1) | TrackBack | Permalink
