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Originally Posted by Maggy J
So you don't think is smacks of voyeurism or is patronising?
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As far as reading the entries in the Guinness Book of Records is concerned then no.
I understand that anyone who has an entry has given their permission that they be included.
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A key point is that all the record holders celebrated in the book have chosen to be included. Guinness respects the wishes of people who do not want to be named in the book, he says, or included in the Guinness database, because "they don't wish to publicise their condition"
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.So I don't see how anyone reading their entry could be accused of being either voyeuristic or patronising. I feel that, IMHO, anyone objecting to the details being published who wanted to take issue on that platform was voicing what they thought ought to be a "politically correct" comment rather than taking the details as they were intended. A list of interesting facts.