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NHS-funded organisation was earlier criticised for website link to pornographic cruising site
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Sexual health charity 'nails bags of condoms to trees for cruisers'
A Yorkshire-based sexual health charity has been accused of promoting a gay cruising site by reportedly nailing bags of condoms to trees.
Litherop Lane, between Clayton West and High Hoyland, is listed on a number of cruising websites, but a local councillor said that Kirklees and Calderdale charity The Brunswick Centre was going too far in its efforts to promote sexual health.
"If you put seed on the ground for birds they will flock to it. By doing this they are only attracting more people down," Jim Dodds told the Huddersfield Examiner.
"We attempted to talk to the The Brunswick Centre but we were just accused of being homophobic. We think people ought to do this sort of thing in the privacy of their own homes. They shouldn't be offering facilities for lots more people to do it."
According to the Examiner, the NHS-funded charity was criticised two years ago for a link on its own website to another, pornographic site listing cruising areas for gay men, and was accused by a former employee of getting its priorities wrong by encouraging men with wives or girlfriends to seek risky sexual encounters.
Litherop Lane made the news earlier this month when the body of Christopher Hartley, who ran a sex tourism business called Eastern Delights, was found there. Eastern Delights offered men the opportunity to spend 10 nights in the Philippines with a girl who "never says no". Hartley had sustained fatal gunshot wounds in what the police described as "a brutal execution-style murder".
