It so angers me the way certain men are excused of child abuse. And it's usually because they conform to one of two types. Firstly there is the 'tortured artist' whose crimes are assumed to be an expression of psychosexual angst. This is Polanski the great director and holocaust survivor.
Then there is the Dionysian rock God. Bill Whyman is one but we just know loads more of that generation of rock stars would have been taking advantage of scores of underage groupies. They're bad boys and you better "lock up your daughters". Moreover, unlike Saville and Harris et al they're so sexually magnetic that it's entirely understandable if your daughters throw themselves at them, giving them another perceived excuse.
The truth, however, is that they're all fucking selfish perverts.