From Valerie Moyses
There will doubtless be many antagonistic responses to your interview with Laura Agustin, but I say “hoorah” for her views on prostitution (6 July, p 25). Anyone can sell all sorts of body-based services, but only the sale of sex is considered to be wrong.
This simply boils down to the idea that sex is somehow morally dubious. We have to throw off the religious attitude to sex, which means that as a bodily pleasure, it has to be wrong and sinful, and so made a source of guilt, and an activity that must be controlled and limited by both religion and the state.
No, it mustn’t. Much good and little harm will be done if governments and religions stay out of people’s sex lives.
Bloxham, Oxfordshire, UK
