Porn Sunday

When you do find out someone is heterosexual or bi-sexual what services would be specific to these 'customers' ?

It starts getting complicated around this time - I haven't got any evidence yet that suggests that there are needs that are specific to heterosexual residents per se, but I do have evidence that suggests that if you're lesbian, gay or bisexual, you're statistically more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol, experience depression, isolation or specific mental health problems, and be more likely to be a smoker. What I do is assess the size of the local population and decide whether we would get good value for taxpayers' money if we targeted resources on those specific groups in addition to existing spending - perhaps if there were a lot of people we felt we weren't reaching.

Say 10% of your population are lesbian, gay or bisexual, and 50% of that 10% were smokers, but only 2% of the people accessing your smoking cessation programmes were LG or B, that suggests there's more work to be done on engaging those groups.

There was also a rather embarrassing incident where a tenant, who was living with their same sex partner, was accused of sub-letting and evicted, when the service didn't understand the concept of civil partnerships.

So why the need to imply a socio-political leaning when speaking about these people's concerns over invasion of privacy ?

There really is no reason other reason than an attempt to poison the well, whether their concerns are valid or not is an argument that should stand up by and of itself.

This is the very definition of ad hominem, attacking a characteristic of the person making the argument rather than addressing the argument itself.

I'd actually rather be addressing the argument!

I just identified a shared characteristic that I felt would give a rough idea of the person they were. It wasn't vitriolic as such, and it doesn't mean their concerns over privacy are any less valid, but let's be honest, almost every Daily Mail reader I've ever encountered has been reactionary, prejudiced, white, retired or approaching retirement, with a touch of the NIMBY about then. They don't understand anyone but themselves, and so will be the first to fail to understand how someone's sexual orientation could have a bearing on their needs, since their own sexual orientation has no impact on their own needs.