Letter: Sexual standards

When I first became a reader of The Scotsman over 60 years ago, it was considered a quality newspaper, but there was then no Fringe attached to the Festival. Now, it seems, anything goes, and you now appear to be pandering to the lowest tastes.

You printed a review of a "comedy" by a certain Jim Jefferies (I thought he was a football manager) who, according to your reviewer, Kate Copstick, was mainly concerned to talk about sex (9 August). Apparently she found it fascinating inter alia to watch the women in the audience shrieking with laughter at sexual remarks they would not accept from their boyfriends.

It seems to me that if your reviewer has given an accurate version of the show, it can only be an indication that the moral tone of The Scotsman has slipped from the high standards which prevailed in bygone years, and that the moral standards of certain women have taken a downward plunge.

DONALD JACK

Summerside Place

Edinburgh