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the government would be so foolish as to entrust herself to a complete stranger in such a highly-compromising and risky intimate encounter - regardless of any other issues of such behaviour.

I cannot help but wonder how commonplace such insane trust of strangers is where sexual relationships in particular are concerned. Possibly it's a relatively small percentage of those involved who pay for their incredibly misplaced trust with such dire consequences as this woman did. How many others though suffer in innumerable ways because they are too willing to trust their bodies, their hearts, their minds and their lives to somebody without any proof of their honour, integrity or indeed even their sanity?

When it comes to romance and sex, I think people are often as foolhardy as could be. It's not even always that they let their hearts rule their heads. Often I think they seem to just lose their heads altogether as they allow themselves to be ruled by some kind of primeval instincts. They rush headlong into dangerous situations before they have even got anywhere near falling in love.

There's a very old, wise saying that "fools rush in where angels fear to tread". Sadly, this seems to be particularly true in relation to the most intimate of relationships. We may be wary about having casual conversation with somebody sitting at the bus stop, particularly if they look a bit odd. Many people will be reluctant to stop and help somebody on the street for fear they will be attacked. Yet they may meet somebody at a nightclub or a party and be living with them the next week. How can that person have earned their trust adequately in such a limited space of time?

Then there are those we hear about in the media who have become the victims of serial lovers. You know the type that has numerous women he's conned. He often has a number of them on the go at the one time and manages to juggle them all while each one thinks she's his one and only. Usually he cons all their savings out of them and often has children to them all along the way. One has to ask why these women are so trusting? Why do they not "smell a rat" as my mother would have put it?

Likewise, even adults prove to be very unwary where intimate internet relationships are involved. We have all heard examples of people who have had internet romances and have even left marriages and moved to the other side of the world - only to find their internet lover was not the person they believed him or her to be.

Then the other area

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