MANY will have misgivings that an NHS-funded organisation whose brief is to promote safe sex and improve the local population’s sexual health has a link on its website to a hardcore pornographic site which tells men where to go for sex with other men.

As an ex-employee - himself gay - says in today’s edition, “The Brunswick Centre is there to facilitate sex; it is there to support sexual health.”

But he claims that by helping married men get gay sex that the Centre is actually promoting unsafe sex - and putting at risk the sexual health of women across Kirklees.

The Centre counters this view by stressing the effective work of the Centre and denying it is doing anything wrong.

It argues that it is simply giving these men the opportunity to make informed choices.

But at as we approach World Aids Day on December 1 the time is right for an open debate on this aspect of the work carried out by the Brunswick Centre.

Calderdale and Kirklees Primary Care Trusts, which helps pay for the centre says that it too is committed to making sure people living throughout Calderdale and Kirklees have access to professional sexual advice, support and counselling in a confidential environnment.

It too should be involved in this debate.

Girlfriends, partners and wives of gay men across Kirklees deserve nothing less.