Oh dear. The stories on the NHS buying porn just keep coming (sorry).
Think tank 2020health.org has criticised NHS trusts for supplying pornography to couples undergoing IVF. (You would have thought that with a web address for its name it would be well versant in the reasons why most men use the internet…).
It says the use of porn to help men produce sperm samples promotes ‘adultery of the mind’. Disgusting. I would never do that. My Kelly Brook coffee mug is a ‘collectable’, that’s all.
Of 93 NHS trusts that provide fertility services and found that 33 offer pornography in their IVF clinics apparently.
Fifteen trusts got the material free of charge, as donations from patients or publishers, while 18 paid for material, which included DVDs and magazines. These 18 trusts spent up to £100 each a year on porn, with the average spend on magazines being £21.32 per trust per year and a similar amount for DVDs.
This is definitely a story of huge national significance, like this one, and this one. They’re far more important than the hundreds of millions the NHS spends on management consultants or the billions of pounds of PFI debt that has to be serviced…
Anyway, here’s a man who’s putting his energies into a more worthy cause. And he deserves your sponsorship.
Cardiologist Dr Tim Betts is running coast to coast across northern England along the 190-mile Wainwright route. He’s doing the equivalent of seven marathons in seven days to raise money for the Oxford Heart Centre.
They won’t be spending donations on porn.
Tags: Humour
