Whats with this talk of making lots of love from a party long associated with Victorian values?
Conservative politicians and sex. To do it is one thing – perhaps whilst wearing a Chelsea strip, or with John Major in a bathtub? – but to speak of it quite another. For all the cut and thrust of political life, the corridors of power are a strangely sexless place. Rare is the MP who will make even a veiled reference to bonking – instead policy talk is of being “family friendly”. So it is rather surprising that the party’s shadow work and pensions minister, David Willets, has urged us to go forth and multiply. “After the baby boom of the 1950s, we have had the baby bust. Europe’s real demographic crisis is not longevity but birth rates.” Over the next 50 years, he says Europe needs an extra 40m young people. Sex is the one topic Tories in particular tie themselves up in knots over, so MPs tend to plump for a rather prim stance on the subject. The aforementioned Mr Major espoused family values in his 1993 Back to Basics moral crusade, a campaign which somewhat backfired when various mi
