This week's post is a short one, mainly because the archives have reopened and I have been out and about more. Last week I looked briefly at a pair of men who were executed for sodomy. But during the 20th century the justice system's persecution of gay men was wide ranging and attempted to control far more than what happened in the bedroom. This is one such case. Born in 1910, Mary Whitehouse married, had five sons, and worked as an art and sex education teacher. In 1963, she became concerned about the behaviour and attitudes that her students exhibited in relation to sex and believed that the root cause of it was a general moral decline, precipitated by the media (specifically, the BBC). Despite a meeting with the deputy director-general of the BBC, Whitehouse became increasingly alarmed by the output of television programming and, in 1964, she founded the Clean Up TV Campaign. Clearly, there was something about Mary - thousands of people attended the first public meeting th...