Where the author proclaims "act­resses' knowingly sluttish poses"

Would the author prefer behaviour more in keeping with Catholic Church traditions?

For example - priests buggering alter boys or worse? http://youtu.be/6eyQjsG0DRI

Or Australia's own monster, Cardinal Pell, now shifted to the Vatican where he can do less damage to the Church's reputation - becoming Pope?

runner's apologies not yet received.

Daffy Duck,
The more alarming issue is that a so called academic would be so dim witted as to use e-mail for risque communication, as with the celebrity photo scandal it's a case of adults who should know how to use computers and 4G phones in a safe manner but apparently haven't bothered to read the owner's manual.
As I tell my daughters, if you don't want anyone to read it or see it don't put it on an electronic device, there's no such thing as online privacy.

One other point, almost all the people McCarthy was "hunting" actually were Soviet agents, Spurr as far as we can tell hasn't been known for overtly discriminating against or disadvantaging people of other races or genders.

There has been a long line of actresses who have had photos "leaked". Only the gullible take these incidents at face value, as it seems reasonable to suspect that they were engineered by the actresses' publicists. They never fail to generate publicity and they raise her sex appeal. The actress pretends they were leaked to avoid looking trashy and to generate sympathy. It seems very unlikely that the pictures were genuinely hacked or stolen.

Professor Spurr gained nothing through the leak of the emails, so his case is genuinely different. He had a reasonable expectation of privacy and publicity about his racism has destroyed all chance that he could pursue his chosen profession.

plantagenet,

'runner's apologies not yet received.'

probably have less in common with Catholic church than you plantagenet. Had they weeded out those with an unnatural bent far less damage would of been done.

Thanks for the reply runner

I recommend several convict ships full of "bent" priests could sail, or row like galley slaves, from Australia and elsewhere, up the Tiber to the Vatican.

Cardinal Pell - being more like a harsh prison governor than a humble man of God - could then preside over them for eternity.

Cheers

Pete

I dunno Benk, a lot of those celebrities don't appear nude in films or magazines and a lot of the photos are kind of gross (yes I've looked).
Some of them appear to be shots the women have taken for reasons of hygiene or grooming "down there", in the same way you might otherwise use a hand mirror.
The good thing about the Spurr incident is that maybe, finally, White, sexually normal men will get the message that these days they have no business being in humanities departments or even attending university full stop.
It was bad enough when I was an arts student from 1986-88, I can't imagine why a young man would want to put himself through an arts degree in 2014, at least I didn't have to pay for my useless course.