In any job I have held, many of them in the public sector, behaviour such as linking a highly sexual blog to my workplace, in any way at all, would be grounds for dismissal. Not just because of the sexual aspects but because of a failure of professional judgement.
For the bigger issue is that an organisation can be so insulated from reality that instead of investigating this complaint, they have defended their employee. This points to a massive lack of judgement on the part of the organisation as well as the individual.
I’m old enough and cranky enough, to be perfectly happy with kink-shaming in a public context. That this employee, and the organisation, doesn’t recognise the erosion of professional and accountable boundaries this event represents, suggests much bigger organisational problems are likely to be discoverable. If their judgment is so flawed here, what else are they fucking up?
Children’s charities, all organisations working with children, by their nature, generally are, and should be, conservative and very cautious. The protection of children is not a sphere for testing society’s sexual boundaries.
I am glad that they will be held to account.