As a retired person, I often watch TV programmes between coffee and other tasks. I was horrified when I found myself tuned into Britain's Streets Of Vice at 9.15am on BBC1 on March 3.

It featured the granny figure who works as a dominatrix, the fatherly figure who encourages young boys to play Twister in the nude for a porn movie and young women wearing thongs who have been working all day as prostitutes.

All this before the watershed - why bother to have one?

All this in front of desperate young people who can't find work. This programme was more like a recruitment drive for the porn industry, which nets more than £1billion a year by exploiting the young and the vulnerable.

Glamorous fun? Lucrative? These were the messages which came across. It may start with playing Twister but it can end very quickly in drug addiction, suicide and death. Of course, none of this was mentioned - and the Government has given the BBC a further licence for ten years.

If the BBC wants to show this type of programme in the morning, I'll take my coffee break with another programme.

I don't totally disapprove of prostitution and feel there is a need for properly run and licensed brothels but it is not the subject for a TV show at 9.15 in the morning.

And it should be shown after the watershed (preferably after midnight) when young people are asleep - hopefully.

I am disgusted and disappointed in the BBC for stooping so low and

getting paid a licence fee for doing so. And I further object to paying that fee when it contributes to the destruction of young lives.

-C White, Hove