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And for that finishing touch, here comes the re-evaluation of that pantomime villain of the sex on TV debate, Mrs Mary Whitehouse, courtesy of the brilliant young feminist writer . She reminds us of the contemptuous attitude to this uppity woman who was such an enemy of sex on TV that a porn star mockingly changed her name to ‘Mary Whitehouse’ by deed poll (this fake Mary Whitehouse committed suicide while young, unlike the original, who lived to a happy old age), while Sir Hugh Greene, director-general of the BBC between 1960 and 1969, purchased a grotesque naked portrait of Mrs Whitehouse to hang in his office. Knowing what we now know about ‘Auntie’ and her nasty habit of protecting sexual predators from Savile to Westwood (how interesting that, like many a modern sex criminal, Auntie identifies as female) Mrs Whitehouse now seems a far better moral bet than Greene.


















