An embarrassed dad reminisces about 1980s tabloids, where 'poof' was a pejorative headline, sex-crazed vicars were celebrities, and the age of consent was merely a suggestion for Page 3 models. He assures his son it was all the norm, even if he was only 13 and into 'older' women.

MY teenage son has asked if red-top newspapers really behaved like that in the 1980s when I was a boy delivering them. He’s not going to f**king believe this. <p><strong>MY teenage son has asked if red-top newspapers really behaved like that in the 1980s when I was a boy delivering them. He’s not going to f**king believe this: </strong></p> <p><strong>Yes, they used to count down to a 16-year-old exposing her breasts</strong></p> <p>It just… wasn’t uncommon. Gave the working man on the bus somet...