Did Jackson's attempts to be good turn him 'Bad'

SHOOT: Repressing emotions is never healthy, and Michael's exposure at a too young age to sex and infidelity probably left a lasting impression. His mother's religious attitude to 'sins of the flesh' were unlikely to have helped when it was time to grow up and be a man.

clipped from www.dailymail.co.uk Mostly, where Michael's personal life was concerned, people felt a sense of sadness. He was an enigma: perplexing and eccentric, but essentially asexual. From an early age he had been exposed to sex, and his whole experience of life was shaped by it. But in such a way that it would not be surprising if his take on the subject was strange. Aged four, he was singing with his elder brothers as the Jackson Five, egged on by their hugely ambitious father, Joseph. In their early years, the brothers were booked into dives and strip joints. Nine-year-old Michael watched from the wings as voluptuous women - and the occasional transvestite - stripped naked on stage. Then he would go home to his mother Katherine, a devout Jehovah's Witness, who imprinted on her sons the belief that lust in thought or deed was sinful. When they were touring, Marlon recalled his father going off to bed with shapely beauties on both arms and then hearing laughter coming from his room.