When do celebrities have a right to privacy?
In light of the recent revelations about Tiger Woods’ extramarital affairs, we asked people to take a few optional questions about the nature of celebrities, political public figures, and their right to privacy.
Entertainment and Sporting Celebrities
13% think Celebrities should be entitled to absolute privacy in their private lives. 36% say celebrities should be entitled to absolute privacy in their private lives unless they are breaking the law.
34% of respondents to our poll think that celebrities should be entitled to absolute privacy in their private lives unless they are breaking the law, OR doing something that might be considered morally wrong (e.g. having an affair). Tiger Woods falls into this category, so it is interesting to note that only 46% of respondents think that he has no right to privacy in this case.
12%completely disagree, and think that celebrities should not be entitled to any privacy in their private lives.
Political Public Figures
The respondents are even less forgiving for political public figures, as only 5% think they should be entitled to absolute privacy in their private lives. 33% agree that public figures should be entitled to absolute privacy in their private lives unless they are breaking the law. 46% believe they should be entitled to absolute privacy in their private lives unless they are breaking the law, OR doing something that might be considered morally wrong (e.g. having an affair)
13% feel that public figures should not be entitled to any privacy in their private lives
The Role of the Media
The respondents appear to have a balanced view towards how the media coverage impacts upon those in the public eye. 70% of respondents believe that the media are too intrusive into the lives of public figures and celebrities. This support is not without qualification however, as 87% think celebrities have a duty to set a good example in their behaviour. Only 4% feel that they have no responsibility to set a good example.
Binge Drinking & Unprotected Sex
Many people enjoy a drink over the Christmas period, and unplanned drunken romantic trysts have played a rich part in British culture for centuries. However, new research suggests that this kind of behaviour is more widespread than we might think.
27% of respondents aged 18-34 reported that they have had unprotected sex due to being too drunk to remember to use contraception, while 48% stated that they drink more alcohol over the festive period compared to other times of the year.
Regrets were common, as 45 % confessed to having sex under the influence of alcohol that they wouldn’t have had if sober. The ubiquitous nature of binge-drinking will be of concern to some: 73% of male respondents and 64% of female respondents stated that they have drunk to the point where they would describe themselves as ‘out of it’.
The findings have emerged from YouGov research on behalf of sexual health charity Marie Stopes International.
EHRC Launch ‘Sexual Orientation Explored’ Report, powered by YouGov
Today the Equality and Human Rights Commission launched a new report: Sexual orientation explored: A study of identity, attraction, behaviour and attitudes in 2009 This report presents the findings of a survey of 5,000 people including 2,750 identifying as gay, lesbian or bisexual.
It was launched at the event ‘Beyond Tolerance’, hosted by Ben Summerskill of Stonewall and Trevor Phillips of the EHRC.
Some of the report’s most interesting findings:
Public attitudes towards LGB people were not consistent. People were happier to accept openly LGB people as close friends, managers at work or as their GP, and were less accepting regarding candidates for prime minister, religious leaders and parents.
Approaching six per cent of people identified themselves as LGB and almost 91 per cent as heterosexual/straight.
For the majority of people, sexual orientation appears to be fixed. Only five per cent of respondents indicated that they had changed how they think about their sexual orientation.
The study showed that sexual orientation was most likely to become ‘fixed’ by the age of 25. There is evidence that gay men were likely to have arrived at their current orientation earlier than lesbians.
Lesbians were most likely to report sexual attraction outside their stated identity (19 per cent reported attraction to men for example). Around one in ten heterosexual women (10 per cent) and gay men (12 per cent) reported being sexually attracted to women and slightly fewer heterosexual men (six per cent) reported sexual attraction to other men.
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