Sex, politics and the media: UK more liberal than Finland?

The news that Ken Livingstone has three more children by two more women has not really made big waves here and his campaign for London Mayor seems largely unaffected. He’s certainly not resigning. But Finland has just lost its Foreign Minister after a gossip magazine revealed that he had sent suggestive texts to an exotic dancer (not his wife…) It reminds us that cultural norms on sex and politics vary wildly over time and from place to place.