It is about the use of social power - the imposition of one faction's wishes about what should be prohibited upon the free choices of the rest of us. I submit, however, that they are neither moral nor in the majority. The trouble with this argument, of course, is that one person's morality can be another's viciousness. We have only to remember the religious wars in the Middle East and, nearer home, in Ulster, to realise that. Respect and consideration for other people doesn't seem to loom very large in the private or public agendas of most contemporary Britons.
Sexual censorship is political censorship.
Because sex is one of the most highly political topics there is. It affects individual human happiness and relationships, and social arrangements and attitudes, more profoundly than any other area of life. It is paradoxical in that it is a very private matter as well as a crucially public one. The case for free speech in relation to sex is precisely the same as the case for free speech in any other area of life. As Winston Churchill said of Parliamentary government, with all its shortcomings, anything else would be infinitely worse.