Well, the annual rate of newly-diagnosed STIs in the UK is not far short of half a million. Almost 150,000 new cases of chlamydia per annum, for example. Kind of puts the relatively tiny number of new HIV diagnoses in the shade, eh, ake? Never mind banning gay sex. Let's just ban sex! This context makes your unhealthy focus on homosexual activity all the more worrying.

Don't you think that a good, effective programme of education for relationships and safe sex, free from moralising, free from clergymen, and not just at school either, would do a damn sight more good than all this thinly-disguised homophobia? That what we do not currently have? I do have to keep asking, you know.

How many people do you think know that HIV/aids has reached epidemic levels in the UK?

Hmm, dark and scary talk. I await your evidence. Please include a definition of "epidemic".