
Downstream: A History of Sex Scandals w/ Steven Methven
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The Importance of Sex Scandals
Sex scandals aren't just the thing you read in the paper, they're also material that extracts other kinds of information. The titan of this technique was Max Clifford, the PR guru and later convicted sex offender who used people's sexual information to extract other forms of information. Out of them, he had a very close relationship with the tabloids. He ended up being convicted of sexual offences against people as young as 15. And yeah, it's a sort of sex scandal that we didn't discuss earlier, but it's kind of my favourite one, the one that involves hypocrisy. If the Dan Woodton allegations are true, this is a person who has made a career of accusing, criticising
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