Mr Owls

Back in my Press Gang days my defence was always this: sex will always be an exciting mystery to children, they’ll always want to to know about it. And they’ll learn about it, inevitably, from scary porn and all those barmy urban myths that circulate playgrounds. As a counter to that, shouldn’t responisble kids telly at least try to right the balance? Shouldn’t there be someone out there (apart from your boring parents and your boring teachers, who cares what they say) saying that sex is a natural, sometimes funny, sometimes wonderful thing, that decent, kind, nice people do with other decent, kind, nice people. Rather than a sleazy forbidden horror whispered about behind the bike shed.

You CAN’T stop kids finding out about sex. You CAN at least make sure some of what they hear is sane and reasonable.

And as for alternative sexuality in Dr Who - oh for goodness sake!

There are kids watching out there, who already know they’re gay. (I knew which sex I fancied from a very early age.) Doesn’t it do them good to have a hero like a Captain Jack, who laughs in the face of straight and gay alike?

Captain Jack: he’ll save your planet and shag anyone who lives there (but check your purse before he leaves.)