Patients often pay deference to their physicians and can be taken advantage of in the sanctity of consulting rooms

Sticking points, such as the decriminalisation of sex between children aged 12 to 16, have seen the amendment Bill go a month over deadline.

Three teenagers have pleaded with MPs to consider a separate register for child sex offenders instead of criminalising "a natural part of growing up".

Well, that’s what some people seem to think a recent Concourt ruling on consensual teen sex boils down to. Newsflash: it doesn’t.

In a unanimous judgment, judges have declared sections of the Sexual Offences Act unconstitutional as they infringe on the rights of adolescents.