LONDON -- What is it about the British and sex? Young people seem to leap to it as though having as much of it, as soon as possible, as flamboyantly and boastfully as possible and damn the consequences, is their national destiny.
A holiday resort on the Greek island of Rhodes has just announced a drive to get young British people off their streets because of their lewd and drunken behavior. Not all young people. Just the Brits. Then more teenagers get pregnant in Britain than in any other European country, and in the developed world only the United States nurses more teenage, unmarried mothers than Britain.
This might seem just all good fun, the outburst of youthful exuberance so long shackled by British decorum. And with so many outfits around willing and able to make money out of the hunger for sex, who can put up a barrier between their children and the sex on screen?