May I endorse that the issue is indeed one of licensing - and more.

It is wholly offensive, and probably unlawful under European law, for a licence to be required for a human right. Some Human rights may be interfered with where there is a pressing social need, and the interference is proportional. Neither of those tests are passed here.

Let me try for an analogy. In some situations having sex may be soocially offensive or harmful to (some) individuals. But it would be an unlawful interference for the law to say that having sex per se was unlawful without a government (or local authority) licence.