Peter Leapman, Canterbury
Times Educational Supplement (letters) 04-12-10
Richard Yuill's right to advance heretical ideas about
paedophilia ought to be defended ("Fury over PhD for child-sex
research", December 3), even if one suspects that his recent PhD thesis
contains more than its fair share of special pleading.
But this does not mean that he should get away with concealing his arguments
behind a tangle of jargon. 'The title of his thesis appears to be Male
Age-Discrepant Intergenerational Sexualities and Relationships. What exactly
would have been wrong with Sexual Relationships between Men and Children?