I never had any hang-ups about sex. As for being sexually repressed, nothing could be further from the truth. There are more hang-ups now than ever there were when I was growing up.

The case was the subject of a radio play Mark Lawson's The Third Soldier Holds His Thighs on BBC Radio 4 in 2005.

As a result Mary Whitehouse became an object of mockery in the media especially by the BBC. The campaigns of Mary Whitehouse continue to divide opinion. Another private prosectution was brought against the director of the play The Romans in Britain which had been performed at the National Theatre.