I do wonder though, if her tolerance of porn and prostitution will soften as she loses her looks…just as it has in the case of this 1960′s once sexy liberal rationalist – Joan Bakewell thinks sexual competition is bad now she’s old and can’t compete..

Dame Joan said the freedom granted by the introduction of the Pill had been corrupted, resulting in the sexualisation of young girls and the prevalence of pornography.

In the 1960s, Dame Joan was a vocal opponent of Mrs Whitehouse, whose moral crusade against sex and violence in broadcasting led her to found the Clean Up Television campaign.

The free sexual market is great when you’re young and attractive and you can choose from whichever number of alpha males to screw. When you’re 50 and frumpy, and can no longer compete with nubile girls, suddenly you realise it all had ‘unintended consequences’.

Here’s a video that would cheer Joan up and remind her that things were once far worse for the older British woman – even as little as a decade ago. This clip, from the 90′s BBC Comedy ‘The Detectives’ was obviously made a couple of years before the men of Merry Old England succumbed overnight to the fantasies of middle-aged American feminists and ultra-conservative trainspotters, becoming only the second people in the history of the human race to believe that admiring the charms of young womanhood was something as perverse as the attraction to toddlers.

I do hope the men’s rights movement isn’t becoming infested with trainspotters…