"Scotland’s biggest ever SEX survey" – what a load of guff! 7 pages of questions that do their level best to muzzle any non-heterosexual readers and thus any embarrassing non-heterosexual results (hey this is from the paper that backed Brian Souter’s "Keep the Clause" campaign so what should I expect). It’s an excuse to pry into people’s private lives to get some prurient end result to fill your desperate pages.
Where most surveys would sensibly ask your gender and sexuality as the first 2 questions, in the first 5 pages there’s no meaningful reference to same-sex relations and when it does appear it’s under a section entitled "Sex and Morality" where your ‘resolutely heterosexual’ readers are basically invited to pontificate on things that don’t affect them.
Your gay readers are obviously only allowed to write to wizened old maid Joan to have a finger waggled at them. There strangely seems to be an almost daily stream of gayness there on the ‘problem’ page.
Oh, and I don’t expect this letter to be published (unless Joan gets her mits on it).
Graeme Robertson
Dunfermline
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