I've skimmed through all the posts on this subject and feel sorry that Rolf Harris's demise does not seem to lead to anything that resolves or solves the problems of child abuse. I have no argument against his guilt or jail time, but all men are rubbished and the price of sex just goes up and up and understood less than ever.
Many of the posts are personal attacks on others which is not good.
One thing positive was, I think, was the testimony from some of the female victims that their mental health suffered and they felt dirty, tarnished etc. afterwards. I think men, growing up post war especially, do not appreciate the danger of casual and random sexual molestation. In that period after the war, dysfunction was obviously very high. All men, from every nation was fighting "with GOD" and millions were killed. No surprise that "with God" did not have much meaning after the war. IMO religion did not make any adjustments and just got more fundamentalist.

In the 60's when Rolf and I were growing up, boys would have heard about the scoring system,with one been a kiss and 10 "all the way". We all heard about the local "bike". Personally I never found the "local bike" and I didn't look. I expected that if I worked hard, got a good job, that relationships would follow as it had in the past. She'd be sweet. BIg mistake!

Rolf's problem is that by his own diagnosis he is "touchy, feely"
I am sure that today there is scientific explanation for this and medical science could fix the "touchy, feely" syndrome
SADLY, I don't think this will be allowed to happen, and the sex business will just roll on.

laz91,

The problem with a guy who diagnoses himself "touch feely" is that, in Rolf's case, his touchy feeliness was directed uninvited to underage girls and women who in some cases he'd just met. Also his touchy feely habits were directed straight to the private areas.

As I've mentioned before, our society has a social taboo on the feeling up of underage girls - and also to the uninvited touching of private parts of women who you've just met.

I imagine if Rolf had been caught trying any of his antics by the fathers or partners of his victims, he would have had his block knocked off.

Another thing I'll add for those attempting to blame the girls and women for leading him on is that this man daggy but "lovable" entertainer is no Brad Pitt or George Clooney. A guy like Rolf is definitely not the type to get a woman's heart thumping with desire.

LUDWIG/<<.Regarding Count 1: ‘A’ in 1969:

< …you twice put your hand up her skirt>>

see that is a little thing[if it occured once]
but the twice/well.ok benifit of the doudt

but twice..<<between her legs and touched her vagina over her clothing. >..

thats a bit discusting[under law]..and i suppose will happen near anytime a girl in in a crowd/but.[and i gues here is thE RUB].that stranger in he crowd/or boy-in the playground/hasnt got that public face[that reminds you every time/to over think things

yes its true a good lawyer[not mnoralk lawyer].could have made this into a non EVENT/researched her past broken her as happens everyday s cases where THEY GET 7 MOTHS JAIL DISMISSED FOR TIME SERVED/or suspended sentance..in rape

see rape is prevelant/i suggest that all rape is serial-rape
its just the way they found that works[like a pick up teqnique/that assures getting layed/With just thREE STEPS/saying their name 3 times

but we dont need blck magic/we need reason this issue out
because it cghurned in her mind/everytime/for his fame/the ongoing extention/of a simple gropE

yes sorry mate
its the rethinking that does the damages
a random stranger groping may cause upset [via recall\in crowds/
but a man such as harras and that other looney tunes who screwed the dead/i resent seeing him wheeling the corpse arround/in tv footage

mate its not what he did
but the damage seeing him eventually did
[i like inteligent conversation/while making love/not childish innocence/destroyed..unthiningly]

<<That was the entirety of the action>

for him/and he no doudt instantly forgot
he didnt do it for perversion[guys often tougch each other up

ITS A GUY THING
BUT SHE WASNT A GUY([LUS SHE WASNT ALLOWED TO FORGET]
sorry not yelling/im with you\but we must see this through

<<>you took her childhood innocence;>>

[she never had even 'touched'/herself
now touching it reminds her of him[imprinted;the first they never forget.

<<for which she blamed herself
<<became an angry child and teenager,
<<unable to express herself and unable to trust men. >

sexualy frustrated/because he took away her\very identity;
her owning/controling;her own~sex?.........HE PEAKED/HER BEFORE THE MAIN-EVENT/LEFT-HER HANGING;HER WHOLE LIFE/WHOLESALE*theft.

but guys do it all the time?
its just the way/it is*[fame has privledge/and burden;to whom much is given/;much better is t be expected

the higher they crawl
the bigger te fall*

I have no doubt that child abuse is even more prevelant today than in past decades. People are naive and deliberatlely blind to the fact that the sexualisation of children (especially young girls)which is essentially pornography leads to the únivited touching of private parts. The denial of the adamic nature leads to many men and woman living in fairyland. Somehow in their mind they could not comprehend how an arty/farty could be a child molestor. The porn industry I have no doubt feeds numerous men and woman to carry out acts of their adamic nature. That's why some deviant judge (see SMH today) and others are now seeing child molesting as 'natural' just like homosexuality. Nothing will change because dads and mums still think its cute to dress nine year olds like tarts and send them to Madonna or Pink concerts.

I am in no way condoning what he did in any way, I do think some of it was blown out of proportion. It wasn't that long ago that a pat on the butt or a hand on a thigh was not sexual but simple affection. It does sound like to me that he is a sleaze, however in nearly every report I have read it seems all the victims would wait until they had a chance to get away without causing a scene. This in itself enables him to continue. Why didn't anyone jump away instantly and make a scene? That's what I did when I was groped by a school bus driver. And guess what, he lost his job and was known to be a perv, which made others aware to stay away from him.