IN a recent Oxford City Council questionnaire, under the heading ‘Sexual Orientation monitoring information’, we were invited to declare whether we were ‘Bi-sexual [sic]’, ‘Gay man’, ‘Gay woman/lesbian [sic]’, ‘Heterosexual’, ‘Other’, ‘Prefer not to say’.
If anyone can be bothered to fill it in, I can imagine even in Oxford, some people ticking the last box, but who precisely would choose the penultimate one, encompassing everything from harmless, maybe noble, asexuality, to bizarre and often abominable proclivities of which many may be entirely ignorant?
Another section, or subsection, was headed ‘Black or Black British’.
Well, without wishing to be pedantic, I have always assumed that most black British were in fact black, but as previously stated the form was compiled by Oxford City Council.
DAVID DIMENT, Riverside Court, Oxford
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