The real crime of Jennifer Thompson 25 June 2012 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: News , Sexuality , No Comments On 5 September 2010, as the England football team prepared to face Switzerland in Basle for a vital 2012 European Championship qualifier, revelations emerged in the Sunday press regarding an alleged liaison between the […]

Lynndie England – Private Shame 13 April 2012 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: News , Shame , 1 Comment As a child, Lynndie England was once hit so hard with a table-tennis bat by her mother that the bat snapped. “I was brought up right,” she told Emma Brockes in an interview for the British newspaper The […]

The elephant in the room of porn 9 April 2012 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Pornography , No Comments It’s a common situation, common enough that it no longer shocks or surprises. A woman discovers that her partner is using pornography. There is no way of knowing how many couples this situation affects, for […]

Pink Floyd’s The Wall – a rock opera on sexual shame 18 March 2012 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , Mother wound , Shame , No Comments During my adolescence, in what I only later realised was a subtly but significantly dysfunctional family, rock music was the main fault line between my father […]