Last week during an Intelligence Squared debate on paying for sex, Germaine Greer announced that selling it was better than "selling a child, a kidney or your soul for long hours for wretched pay stacking shelves at Tesco". The English Collective of Prostitutes is similarly telling anyone who'll listen that lap-dancing may be looked down upon but it's a darn sight more lucrative than the...

Buying and selling sex is nothing to do with the State. What I or any other adult choose to do with our own bodies is up to us and us alone. We own all our own bodies - no-one can possily argue with that - and so what we do with it is entirely up

From The Metro: People who use prostitutes will soon face a hefty fine and a criminal record as part of a new crackdown on the sex trade. They will be breaking the law if they pay for sex with a woman being 'controlled for another person's gain' under the changed rules. It is currently legal to pay for sex as legislation concentrates on brothel-keeping, soliciting for sex, and kerb ...

Apart from the silly sociological categories and sex ed lessons, Catherine Hakim’s book is a cocky retort to today’s patronising strand of feminism.

Women's minister seeks to build on poll showing population overall condemns selling and buying sex - but warns that less than half of men regard it as wrong

Chris Keates, head of the NASUWT teachers’ Union, is to say that teachers having sex with Sixth Form pupils shouldn’t be prosecuted. I am not sure if I agree. We are discussing pupils of legal age, so the legal problems arise from the relationship as teacher and pupil, not age of consent issues. Clearly there is

THE Scottish Government has begun gathering views on whether same-sex marriage should be made legal.

I see that Starbucks have binned The Times and are now selling The Guardian and Observer as their newspaper of choice. It’s a shrewd move by Starbucks. With lefty liberals condemning them for monopolising the high street and exploiting third world coffee growers, what better way is there for Starbucks to say they are on the side of social and global conscience? I wonder how many Guardian jou...

The new book "Sex as you don't know it: for married couples who love God," written by a franciscan friar named Ksawery Knotz is flying off the bookshelves in Poland, selling out its initial print run within weeks. While Knotz's message, that even godly married couples should enjoy sex, is all fine and good and probably a smart move for the struggling Polish catholic church, isn...

SCOTLAND should take a lead in Europe in allowing same-sex couples to marry, MSPs heard yesterday.