So, women still can't be bishops.............

They definitely don't know. They are in a right pickle.

Wouldn't it be easier if they simply judged people on their character and ignored their sexuality completely? (After all sexual orientation between consulting adults should be private.).

It is pitiful that the C of E cannot see how ludicrous their stance on homosexuality is - it's like saying "It's OK to be female/black/disbled (pick something for yourself!) as long as you "repent" of so being and do not behave as if you are!! Totally barmy!

I would love to know how they will "police" this!

nfk dumpling how much better it would be if it were private!

I for one do not want to see gay men kissing or women on my tv screen, sorry if that makes me politically incorrect!!

As for David Cameron andhis obession with making gay marriages legal I would prefer that he could sort out the mess of n h s am still waiting for my mole to be removed nearly 3 months now!!

Getting a bit off topic here but,.. be it gay or straight, I do not particularly want to see any explicit sexual relations on television or anywhere else in public. I will go with a plain hug or kiss, we don't need any more to get the message. Most of the stuff on television is uneccessarily graphic and very often totally irrevelvant to the story line. It's just put in to spice up the story.

I'm doing the prude act again.

Back to the topic of C of E's moral fudge up. Is there not one vicar out there on gransnet who can understand and explain it?

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I find sex scenes on film or TV, or in books, simply boring, but I have no specific objection to depictions of gay sex - surely that is just prejudice?

I just wish they didn't make so much noise, graphic sound effects make me feel sick!

I usually stick my fingers in my ears and close my eyes when a graphic sex scene comes on the tv. Then I take little peeps until it is over.

After all, you wouldn't normally watch other people at it.

I also get tense in case my adult GS, who lives with me, walks in the room when a sex scene is on.

I am so glad is not just me who feels like this!

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Did anyone read Caitlin Moran about Ripper Street saying she really had had enough of prostitutes being abused and gutted for the benefit (I felt she implied) of the sick mentality of BBC hierarchy. This is I realise off the point entirely but religious people do obsess over sex and its diversions and television seems to indulge.

'religious people do obsess over sex and its diversions...' - that's a bit of a sweeping statement, Stansgran!

In some cases it is true - those who have been brainwashed into thinking that any kind of sex is dirty and sinful and to be avoided, even between married couples unless it is for procreation, can become so obsessed with staying "pure" and not having sex that they look for "the temptation to sin" everywhere.

And priests who have no legitimate object for their sexual affections can become fixated on the innocence of children as an attraction.