LOL! Well, it sounds like lawyer BS to me, Sorcha...along with probably pandering to local voting patterns.

Someone asked, ""Why do they spend so much time and energy worrying about other people's sex lives?"

There are several answers to that, but I think the number one is:

Fear.

People in the Judeo-Christian civilization are deeply afraid of sex (while simultaneously very desirous of it)...and they are particularly afraid of any kind of sex that strikes them as "unusual" in some way...or outside what they consider "the norm"...it scares the shit out of them!

Which brings up another thing they are even more afraid of than sex: bodily excretions. That is, urine...yes....but most particulary...SHIT!!!! People in this society are so afraid of shit, including even their own shit, that they will go to extraordinary lengths to avoid encountering it. Yes, indeedy. It is an enormous taboo.

And then there's visible aging!!! And death!!! Two more major things to avoid if at all possible.

Worry, worry, worry. Fret, fret, fret. There oughta be a law. ;-D