Sta . — Private: 'kept, removed from public know- led Sta . — Private: 'kept, removed
from public know- led Ile., not open to the public'. Loose as this definition uf the word may be, it had direct bearing on the
at expressed in your editorial under the heading 'London Lights', and in the article by Kenneth Allsop. These comments on the strip clubs compare ill with the general tenor of liberal thinking in your journal.
The Wolfenden Report contended that the law should be relaxed for consenting adult homosexuals in private. Yet the consenting adult who goes to see, in private (i.e., a place not open to the public), a show of sado-masochistic nudity, is part of a 'grotesque anomalous situation'. There is no com-
parison between the club and the pub (the other part of the 'situation'). One i• public, the other private. I don't plead for licence all round. But if one is to be optimistic about change in the law, then the principle should be kept clearly in mind.—Yours faithfully, 6 Wilton Place. Dublin
BRUCE ARNOLD
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