Are All Men Chester The Molester?
According to a couple of airlines, they are.

A leading psychologist has dismissed as "offensive" and "insane" a policy adopted by Qantas and Air New Zealand's not to seat men next to unaccompanied children.

The policy came to light when an Auckland man, Mark Worsley, was asked to shift seats on a Qantas flight because an unaccompanied child had been assigned the seat next to his.

"At the time I was so gobsmacked that I moved. I was so embarrassed and just stewed on it for the entire flight," Mr Worsley, a 37-year-old father of two-year-old twins, told the New Zealand Herald.

Qantas and Air New Zealand have both confirmed it is their policy not to allow unaccompanied children to sit next to men.

But Dunedin-based clinical psychologist Nigel Latta, who has 15 years experience with sex offenders and victims, told NZPA he disagreed entirely with the policy.

"I think it's completely insane. It's a crowded plane. For a start you've got to have someone who's sexually interested in children who just happens by chance to get sat next to an unaccompanied child who then in a small, crowded airplane is going to molest a kid on a flight.

"It's insane. It's political correctness and cautiousness gone made."

Latta said the policy was sending an "awful" message to society that "all men are pariahs".