Unsuitable?
Sir: The inclusion of advertisements of homosexual opportunities in the back pages of the Spectator last week seems to me seriously to lower the tone of your esteemed journal.
Admittedly, the Spectator is an adult journal of comment, and that subject has been treated in articles in your columns, as have prostitution and drug addiction, for example. But it seems to me quite a different step to advertise and therefore to seem to authorise such activities—you could not advertise contacts for the other two activities I have mentioned.
I think that the result of even such prissily *discreet' advertisements as last week's will be to make me, for example, hesitate to place the Spectator in the school library, and fairly soon to alter your whole tone and readership.
W. E. Bell Masters' Common Room, Douai School, Upper Woolhampton, Reading
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