But Stuart has another problem with his childhood friend, Vince, who is gay too, who would like to get Stuart or who would like Stuart to get him, but he is shy and he does not want to find himself involved in the great unstable sexual looting of the vast world. That makes the main hero Stuart think maybe he is losing something that will never come back, his youth and he maybe should think of the future and not only of the present, or at most the balance of the hunt and how many people, I mean men and boys, he has shagged. But that is true till a fifteen year old boy he seduces decides to ask for more insistently. That is so clearly shown with the main character who is practically never having two helpings of the same dish. That implies gay people are more or less forced to cruise all their life, to be the hunter or to be the prey. Second it strikingly confront the problem of age in a sexual community that is too often marked by transience and instability, especially since these couples are not recognize by the law and do not have the right to marry and create a stable home. But be careful though to know what you're doing otherwise it might become another famous play on Charring Cross Road, viz. In fact you have to dip yourself in it, or even soak yourself in it to know. You cannot imagine the diversity of shades and personalities you may or might find in this community. All the nuances and shades of gayness are exploited and shown in the most funny and comical way, never derisive, never aggressive, but always in a comic orientation of its own. First it is deeply committed to diversity in sexual orientation. And yet that film is a lot more than these few erotic episodes. Sex, sex and sex, stopping one inch from hardcore sex, and gay what's more.
Times have changed and this series is quite typical of that change. I remember in the early 60s, or is it slightly later, a theater that played one big success in London at the time in Charring Cross Road, "No sex Please, we are British". QUEER AS FOLK That is a series that can only be British.