'Sign of intolerance’
(N Z. Press Association)
AUCKLAND, April 18.
Intolerance shown by the Courts over the craze for “streaking” was a sign of New Zealanders’ excessive intolerance to nonconformers. an Auckland barrister, Mr D. F. Dugdale, said today.
He was giving the opening address at a Headmasters’ Association conference held
to discuss responsibility for sex education. He said that streakers’ motives were unimportant, but the response of stipendiary ’magistrates to “this ludicrous but harmless activity” by imposing severe sentences was significant. One magistrate had imposed a sentence of seven days imprisonment. “This intolerance is not surprising in view of our attitudes to sex generally,” Mr Dugdale said. “Can you
r have a sane system of sex education in a society 1 where a streaker can be given :. seven days in gaol?” f Mr Dugdale said he was o not convinced that schools teachers were the best people e to entrust with sex educa- :. tion. The hang-ups about sex i of the older generation were s so much more easily passed on by pastors and masters. t And many older people still, r thought of sex as something ” which would go away if it u was not talked about. 1
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33513, 19 April 1974, Page 3
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