THAT famous British reserve all but disappeared last week as warnings spread like wildfire that sexually transmitted diseases were on the increase, and that if they continued unchecked the country faced a public health disaster. National newspapers stoked the fires of moral indignation, and the British Medical Association even recommended that schoolchildren as young as five should be lectured about the dangers of unsafe sex.
The debate was sparked by two rather mundane studies, both published in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections. One found that people nowadays are more accepting of casual and gay sex, and the other showed that…
