DeclineIntoCensorship

The UK is somewhere in between most of Europe and the US when it comes to moralism.

In most of Continental Europe "if you're not harming anybody, we don't care", but Britain's period of increasing moral openness just lasted 3 decades with only enough steam to make same sex marriage legal, and then stopped and turned weirdly transphobic. Further, the moralistic vein of their society never really stopped, it's just that for some limited domains (pretty much just homosexuality) it's unfashionable for the middle class to be openly moralistic, but just about any other sexual behavior which isn't common will get criticized even in newspapers, often by the very upper middle class people who call themselves "liberal" because they're non-judgemental about homosexuality.

Having live in Britain as well as in Northern and Southern Europe, British society stands out for be more judgemental, prejudiced and moralistic that even Southern Europe (which far less moralistic today than 4 decades ago and unlike Britain isn't ultra selective about the things it's non-judgemental about).