Reverse-Ferret Of The Day: James Wharton

“You’ve not heard me say the word ‘ban’ [saunas] at all, ok. I’m not calling for the government to take action on this, I just think as a community we should all look at it and say ‘do we really want this anymore?’ *

“People think I am this middle class snob who’s not been around the block, believe me I’ve been around the block, I certainly have. And you know I just think maybe we could just clean up the image of these saunas slightly, obviously they are not going to be closed, saunas are not just going to read my column and think ‘oh you know what he’s got a point, let’s all close our businesses’ – that’s never going to happen, but perhaps we could all look at how we could improve them...

“Yeah, regulation would be great wouldn’t it? Why can’t we just highlight that? And I brought this out earlier this week that things like HIV are not going away, that is not going away, and if we are going to be realistic about trying to defeat [HIV], then where there are places where there is increased risk, because people put themselves occasionally in dangerous situations, why don’t we actually look at that and think ‘well how can we sort this out?’

[Asked if he was surprised by the reaction to his article]“Not really, what I would say is there’s a lot of people who agree with me and they’ve been very vocal too, but also a lot of people who agree with me who can’t go on record, some people who are high profile don’t want to put themselves in the debate, [I just received] a little message saying ‘I completely agree with you’…but you know this is what it’s all about, I sparked a discussion here and it made the national newspapers, and we’ve got a debate going, this is exactly what I wanted."

James Wharton, current poster boy for the heteronormative state-and-straight-worshipping British gay right, talking to Gaydio radio this morning, quoted in Pink News.

What does Lance Corporal Idiot want gay saunas to be like? A Girl Guides' meeting?

Stop digging, soldier boy, stop digging!

*  Erm:“Sex saunas need to be history. The time has come to close them down.”