The Telegraph:
Man who had sex with bike in court
It does seem harsh, not to mention horribly unjust, that this man’s labelled a sex offender for doing something that hurt no-one. In using an inanimate object (an odd-shaped object, admittedly) as an aid to personal fulfilment, he did something thousands upon thousands of others do perfectly legally every day, (or more often if they’re energetic).
Not only that, he was doing it in what should have been a reasonable expectation of privacy, since he’d taken the trouble to lock the bloody door so as not to offend.
Where was the outraging of public decency? Where’s the contnuing threat to the public? If he was a raper of other people’s bikes that would be a different matter, as he’d have to attack them in the street and disturb the peace. But no, he lusts after bikes in decent privacy. Even if you find it personally distasteful, what is actually illegal about that?
