Australia On This Day

3 August - 1912 - The Persecution Of The Eccentric Sexologist


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REPEAT: On this day in 1912, William Chidley, radical sexologist and one of Australia’s most eccentric characters, was arrested for being a lunatic – the first use of this power against him in a vendetta that’d eventually make him a martyr to free speech.

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