YOUR correspondent C S Jeffrey (December 4) is clearly not a sensitive soul, but I sincerely hope not many share his perspective.

Should he return one day to find a couple having sex in the empty entrance of his home I wonder if he will be able to keep his boasted cool.

For many, sex is only appropriate in private and drugs are a pernicious threat to society, not to mention illegal. Even being drunk and disorderly in public could get Mr Jeffrey arrested.

But thanks a bundle Mr Jeffrey for keeping us right. Perhaps the elderly couple were victims of morality and spirituality, those two outmoded concepts.

G E Dempsey,

Hambleton Garth,

Easingwold.

Updated: 09:32 Saturday, December 08, 2001