Sex in a Cold Climate.

Once again the issue is topical, and once again it is in danger of a whitewash. In  March 1998 the Channel 4 Documentary Sex in a Cold Climate was shown on television to horrified viewers - some stunned, apparently, into disbelief.   
Yet the switchboards were jammed, and help-lines had to be set up to cope with the hundreds of calls received from former inmates of Irish Magdalen Asylums, many of whom now lived in England and were still suffering the effects of their incarceration. 

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