Yield not to Temptation

For yielding is Sin.

- Satan-combatting Christian hymn

I can resist everything, except temptation.

- Oscar Wilde

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Refined, cultured readers, do you find that in spite of being refined and cultured you are shamefully fascinated by the Brittany Higgins/Bruce Lehrmann imbroglios?

Are you, yielding to temptation, closely following (perhaps blushing at your appetite for the sordid) the media's feverish and detailed coverage of Lehrmann's defamation case against Network 10?

If you have whispered a self-disgusted "Yes" to those questions, rest assured that your dark secret is safe with me. I am similarly, shamefully, wallowing in the pornographic nastiness of it all.

I got a shocking glimpse of how debauched I've become when on Monday I forsook the performance of Elgar's Cello Concerto I was listening to on ABC Classic to turn to ABC Radio National's 1pm news. I did this (yielding to Satan's temptation) in the certain knowledge that there would be news of that morning's proceedings in the Lehrmann defamation case.

And sure enough there was, for news organisations everywhere are sharing and promoting the public's rapt fascination with the soap-operatic filth of it all.

So here was normally refined, cultured Ian seduced away from high, fine culture by the possibility of some more of the........

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