12 Dec 09, 12:03 AM
Silent_Storm
UK(M), 6 yrs
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relaxed1 wrote:
The reason for a census is given on the Office of National Statistics as
"The information the census provides allows central and local government, health authorities and many other organisations to target their resources more effectively and to plan housing, education, health and transport services for years to come."
The fact of ones sexuality (in terms of gay/lesbian/bi etc.) may certainly have a bearing on needs for specific types of health services, as may whether you are sexually active, in a stable relationship and so on.
I have no issue with anonymised data being collected with regard to my sexuality where this may lead to better use of resources and an improvement in services available. I have, however, felt no need to discuss my sexuality with my family or most of my friends for the same reason I don't discuss my sex life with them: for the most part it is more information than they would want to know.
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I think this post is the sensible answer to what the op was asking.
I can't provide the links but, the Equlities Minister, Harmans dept requested an economic survey on sexual minorities ie lgbt. Stonewall made a submission and most of it was confidential, so wasn't able to garner much information from it.
The EHRC do not have any data on sadomaschists or bdsm. None at all...yet. A fairly recent IC thread is here>>
http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/246276/
So if sm or bdsm was on a form I would tick the box.
I don't really buy the crap of the information being used against me either.
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Edited 12 Dec 09, 12:16 AM by Silent_Storm
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