No sex please, we're British?

Okay, on a scale of 0 to World Event, this hardly makes a dent, but nevertheless it's a symptom of a wider malaise. The BBC has cut a sex scene between Captain Jack Harkness and another man from the UK screening of an episode of Torchwood. Yes, our US cousins have been deemed mature enough to view such depravity without being scarred for life, but we can't be trusted not to run riot as a result of exposure to a simulation of People Having Sex. What if we get turned on? Or, even worse: What if it puts ideas into our heads and we actually go and have sex? Perish the thought!

In case you were wondering, this episode isn't scheduled for before that famous British institute known as The Watershed (9pm: no scenes that are considered unsuitable for the eyes of children can be shown earlier than that - oh, except for the odd bit of violence and the relentless hard-sell of fast food and toys). It was scheduled for 9.20pm, a time that the BBC determines to be "too soon after the watershed". Come again? How soon after the watershed does the watershed actually come into effect?

What would happen if Captain Jack got his rocks off with a gal? The BBC are quick to defend their decision as totally non-homophobic, but puhleeze! Or, as we like to say in Blighty: pull the other one, it's got bells on. I smell a rat here, or, more accurately, the growing influence of Middle England/Daily Mail readers ranting and raving against the encroaching modern world. I have news for them: Queen Victoria is dead. Some of us actually like sex and don't find it in the least bit offensive. Not even same-sex sex. So put that in your pipe and smoke it! It's deeply offensive to most adults to have such sexual repression alive and well in this day and age and pushed down our throats (no pun intended - oh, well, maybe a little...). If you don't like it, no one is forcing you to watch it. But I do like it - and I'm not the only one - and I feel that my rights are being trampled. I've already complained to the BBC. Why don't you? You can use this form to do so.