I have followed the Worthing sex shop dispute in The Argus for some time now and am fed up to the back teeth with the puritanical ramblings of its leading opponent, Steve Stevens (The Argus, January 13).

People who purchase sex toys or lingerie are not promiscuous or deviants but normal, healthy people trying to keep their sex lives interesting and, ultimately, trying to make their marriages last.

Interfering busybodies such as Mr Stevens should remember this is a free country - at the moment.

What gives him the right to decide what people can and can't purchase in a shop of their choice?

He should allow people the freedom to choose their own lives, as he probably has, without calling them perverts.

With all the horrors going on in the world, it's high time people such as Mr Stevens directed their energy to more deserving matters.

-Steve Lawrence, Address supplied