Moralising prig and sometime Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is at it* again. Not content with wanting to criminalise those who have no intention of breaking the law, but do want to pay for sex, she now wants to make it harder** for socially awkward men and women to see naked members of the opposite or same sex.
As anyone who saw Peter Stringfellow’s defence of lap dancing on Tuesday now knows, the champions of stripping aren’t bastions of coherency. But even so, why should we all be expected to meet Jacqui Smith’s high standards of moral decency? Why shouldn’t adults be allowed to procure sex and other erotic services from other consenting adults? After all, for some of us, it’s the only way we’re going to get any***.
* And for once we can be confident that “it” isn’t sex.
** Stop giggling at the rear… Okay, the back.
*** And by any I mean sex.
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1 Jo Christie-Smith // Nov 29, 2008 at 10:56 am
“Why shouldn’t adults be allowed to procure sex and other erotic services from other consenting adults?”
They will. The reclassification of lap dancing clubs into sex encounter establishment (and your right to go to these places seems to be what you’re arguing for in this post) doesn’t mean they will be illegal just menas that councils would be able to subject them to the same sort of planning scrutiny as sex shops etc.
Blimey Gavin, this is pretty piss poor analysis you’ve got here. No prizes for you for critical thinking today!
2 Gavin Whenman // Nov 30, 2008 at 7:00 pm
My analysis was of the cumulative effect both of the prostitution proposals and the lap-dancing move from the Home Office. It’s clear that it’s Jacqui Smith’s intent to make it much harder (and in the case of prostitution, impossible) to procure sexual services from a consenting adult in circumstances you can be confident are completely legal.
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